Project Fit America:

For example, Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital, Sutter Roseville Medical Center and Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento have partnered with Project Fit America to help keep local school children healthy. Project Fit America is a program designed to promote healthy living and fitness in the nation's youth and to establish fitness programs at local elementary schools.

The goal is to improve fitness in youth and teach children to take personal responsibility for their health. By giving children a positive relationship with their bodies, they are likely to make healthier and informed decisions later in life.

Health Express:

Because the senior population within Placer County is significant, Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital and Sutter Roseville Medical Center have multiple programs that focus on creating better health care access for those 60 years and older and the disabled. They include the Health Express. In partnership with a local transportation service and Seniors First, Health Express provides free rides to health-related appointments for people over 60 years of age or with disabilities who have no transportation in the Auburn area. In 2006 alone, Health Express gave more than 2,000 rides to the seniors and disabled in the community.

Senior Recreation and Respite Program:

The Senior Recreation and Respite Program (R & R) is designed to meet the needs of older adults with memory or physical impairment. The program provides recreational, social and

Senior Resource Guide

The Senior Resource Guide is a booklet, free to the public, with information on a multitude of senior services available in Placer County. The guide is updated and distributed annually via physician offices, senior apartment complexes, senior centers, skilled nursing facilities, libraries, mobile home communities, senior service providers, home health and hospice agencies and many other service organizations and public places. We are able to produce this guide in partnership with Seniors First, the Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital Foundation and the Sutter Roseville Medical Center Foundation.

Survivor Planning Program

In support of the Sun City Roseville Foundation, we have sponsored the Survivor Planning Program, designed to help Sun City residents prepare for the loss of a loved one. It is believed to be the first comprehensive program in the country dealing with planning for life as a survivor. The program is designed to assist in preparing for the loss and, when the time comes, dealing with the actual passing of a loved one and adjusting to a new future.We are working to expand the program in 2007/2008.

Oakmont Health Careers Academy

At Sutter Roseville Medical Center, we partner with Oakmont High School on the Oakmont Health Careers Academy, a three-year high school program, for students interested in exploring and preparing for careers in health care. Students in their junior year experience career options through job-shadowing professionals at Sutter Roseville Medical Center in many areas of health care, followed by a month of a hands-on clinical experience rotation. Students in their senior year participate in a 100-hour internship in the hospital setting. Sutter Roseville Medical Center then presents $5000 in scholarships every year to 10 students who excel in the coursework and go on to pursue health-related degrees.

The Oakmont Health Careers Academy provides high school students exposure to the health-care industry through specific class requirements and on-the-job shadowing and clinical experience at various departments at Sutter Roseville Medical Center.

Placer County SAFE KIDS Coalition

The Placer County SAFE KIDS Coalition is comprised of Placer County law enforcement, fire departments and other organizations interested in preventing unintentional injuries. The Coalition hosts community events, safe car seat checks and provides bike and other safety helmets. As a member of the Coalition, Sutter Roseville Medical Center provides informational brochures in lobbies and to patients, and financial support for the purchase and distribution of child safety seats and booster seats.

Pneumonia Influenza Prevention Program (PIPP)

Pneumonia Influenza Prevention Program (PIPP) PIPP provides free annual influenza and pneumococcal vaccines for older adults during the flu season, from October through January, at various sites in the greater Roseville area.

School Hospital Outreach Project (SHOP)

Began in 1993, the SHOP program works in collaboration with Sutter Roseville Medical Center staff and two local elementary schools to educate second-graders on general health and safety. Students receive weekly lessons on topics such as germs and hygiene, nutrition, first aid, heart health, physical fitness and safety lessons.

Interim Care

The Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region is dedicated to increasing access to care and improving the health and wellness of people in our communities. One way we work to do this is by increasing access to health care through a variety of programs that serve medically indigent adults, women and children and low income residents in Sacramento, Placer and Yolo Counties.

We know that community health goes beyond the walls of our hospitals and we collaborate with local community programs to provide services that meet the needs of our community members.

For example, Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento is a proud founding partner of the Interim Care Program. With Sutter's support, the 18-bed shelter provides homeless men and women a place to recuperate from their medical conditions, links them to vital community services and gives them a place to heal. Today, more than 250 people have been served, with 80% linked to some form of housing. The program offers three meals per day, medical follow up and helps connect patients with community programs and services. Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento has donated $100,000 since the program's inception to support this important community program. The most innovative piece of this program includes the unique collaboration between all the local health care systems, the County of Sacramento, the Salvation Army and The Effort, Inc.

WIND Youth Services

Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento works in partnership with WIND Youth Services, an organization that in partnership with local schools, helps homeless youth re-enter the education system, learn life skills and improve healthy functioning. WIND focuses on providing homeless/street youth with help to move from crisis to safety. WIND activities follow a strength-based youth development format nationally recognized as a best practice approach to working with vulnerable youth that builds on the individual strengths and abilities of each young person. In 2006 alone, almost 100 teens received educational and supportive services.

Juveniles at Risk

Juveniles at Risk offers at-risk youth, drug and alcohol education and treatment with academic and self-discovery programs to help them get and stay sober, earn their General Education Diplomas, and find employment. Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento is proud to support these youth intervention and treatment services that help prepare kids for brighter and healthier futures.

Sutter Regional Lactation Services / Breastfeeding Warm Line

Sutter provides a variety of services that benefit moms and kids throughout Sacramento and Placer County. Sutter Regional Lactation Services provide inpatient and outpatient lactation consultations. Lactation support by telephone is available through the Breastfeeding Warm Line. The Warm Line is free and available to all of the greater Sacramento Community.

Adolescent Family Life Program

The Adolescent Family Life Program is a voluntary comprehensive case management home visitation program in Sacramento, for pregnant and parenting adolescents and their infants. Adolescents are enrolled prior to their 18th birthday and may remain in the program until they turn 20. The goals of the program are to reduce the incidence of low birth weight babies, maximize education potential of clients, reduce the incidence of unplanned pregnancy and reduce child abuse and neglect.

WEAVE / My Sister's House

We invest in programs that provide appropriate services to their clients, like WEAVE and My Sister's House. Both provide support to individuals escaping violent environments. These organizations help clients establish safe environments, become educated and develop healthy relationships and My Sister's House concentrates its efforts on the Asian Pacific Islander community. In 2006, more than 400 clients received assistance through a crisis line for Asian Pacific Islander communities.

Sutter Center for Health Professions (SCHP)

Helping people of all ages enter a career in health care is an important part of what we do. Through strategic programming, the Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region offers opportunities for people to explore in health care related careers. The Sutter Center for Health Professions (SCHP) is an 18-month accelerated nursing program that allows these new nurses to put their skills to use and immediately begin work as registered nurses in the greater Sacramento area community.

The SCHP is a partnership between the Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region (SHSSR) and the Los Rios Community College District that helps address the nursing shortage. Since August 2003, SCHP has been providing opportunities for a portion of students to complete nursing pre-requisite classes, or be accepted into the nursing program if the appropriate coursework has been successfully completed and other admission criteria is met. The Sutter Center for Health Professions reaches and recruits from at-risk communities and provides steady career opportunities to those who might not otherwise have access to health care career education.

Job Shadowing

We support students in achieving careers in health care and administration. And because of this, we support job-shadowing for students looking for careers in all aspects of health care. In fact, the Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region founded the Encina High School Doctor and Nurse Preparatory Academy in collaboration with area hospitals, Sacramento State University and University of California, Davis, in hopes of channeling students into the medical field and providing a solution to the medical and clinical shortage.

Yolo Health Alliance

Sutter Davis Hospital, Sutter West Medical Group, Yolo County and CommuniCare Health Centers created the Yolo Health Alliance in late 1993 as a unique public-private partnership with the County of Yolo and began operations in March of 1994, assuming significant risk and responsibility for care of all Yolo County's medically indigent population.

"The Yolo Health Alliance came about in answer to a question of how to deliver services in an outpatient setting and provide access to inpatient care. This model has served the uninsured population of Yolo County very well with both access and quality care in a very cost-effective way for nearly 13 years," said Dr. Leon Schimmel, Medical Director, Yolo Health Alliance.

Today, the Yolo Health Alliance blends the complementary capabilities of three health care leaders based in Yolo County. Sutter Davis Hospital is the contracting entity, which assumes financial risk for the project. Sutter Davis Hospital also brings managed care principles, concepts and co-funding to the Alliance. Sutter West Medical Group is a contract provider of Sutter Medical Foundation and provides the primary care physicians at Peterson and Salud Clinics (two Alliance community clinics). Having Sutter West physicians at both clinics allows patients immediate access to specialty services. CommuniCare Health Centers hold the contract and are not-for-profit community clinic providers. They bring a unique and highly regarded ability to provide accessible, culturally sensitive care delivered by bilingual staff.

Yolo Perinatal Program

The Yolo Perinatal Program provides prenatal, labor and delivery and postpartum services including nutrition education, childbirth classes, social worker support and health education to low-income, uninsured and underinsured pregnant women. This unique program helps increase access to perinatal care for rural residents of Yolo County while increasing education and decreasing isolation.