Sutter Davis Hospital

I don’t want to give this hospital 5 stars, I want to give them 10! Sutter Birthing Center really takes good care of its patients, and even the Dads! Special shout out to Nurses Sarah, Juliette, Minnie, Gabe, Michelle, Sandy, Rose, Gina, Yelena, Isela, (and several others whom I forgot the names, but provided excellent care) and Drs. Carter, Maayah, Soloniuk, and Tubbesing for an excellent job! My wife’s and daughter’s safety was always their primary concern. I thank God for people like these!

Fast service and Quality care. I felt like the doctors and staff did a wondeful job with my health issue. The buildings were clean and staff professional. The complete opposite of that other hospital on stockton blvd.

Sitting in a hall bed right now. Things are moving quick and I’ve been taken good care of. Most of my time sitting here though, Ive been watching a pretty little girl from registration play on her phone. Not very professional

So update! I gave birth a year ago! Wow. Birth was AMAZING!!! I had a natural water birth which I told them I wanted from the beginning. They were all so super accommodating! Vicky was my midwife and I forget my dulas name. I had my little baby boy with ease! I recommend everyone whose pregnant to have a natural water birth here! No family besides you and your partner. It was wonderful!

have been in pt twice
in last year and a half. 4 days each time. I found the nursing care top notch and everyone from housekeeping to ct and x ray kind and helpful,
and as an rn I have a super critical eye. I heartily recommend it!

RIDICULOUS! I have spent all evening and night with the same nurse and she NEVER said I could not use the restroom in my partners room the whole time until I went to use it this morning and she tells us that bathroom is for the patient ONLY! She was such a jerk about. Put a sign up SUTTER! Or have your staff tell family members they can’t use the bathroom to begin with. I could say so much about them taking forever to tend to patients and how we would ask for something and disappear. But I am sure you get my overall feeling. The doctors were awesome and the recovery nurses were great but your floor nurses need to be addressed!!!

Had my baby boy here in January 2016. They were so nice and helpful. They took really good care of me. Nothing to complain.

This review is for the ER.
I brought my 2 year old son in today for a fever and cough he’s had all week. We got there around 11a. m, we were greeted by a lady at the front desk where she told me to fill out a paper and she would call me up. That was quick she took my sons vitals I didn’t get her name but she was very nice and helpful. We then were called to the back within 5 minutes, the doctor came in about 5 minutes later checked over baby and wanted to do chest xrays. The nurse asked if we wanted any juice or anything while we wait. 10 minutes after that a guy came and got us and took us to xrays that only took a few moments then after that about 10 – 15 minute wait and we were cleared to go with a percription for Tylenol and Motrin. I really like this place, it’s very clean and roomy, everyone was very nice and its comforting when the doctors take the time to listen to you. Its worth the drive for me. Thanks ER!

This Sutter hospital ER was able to get my boyfriend in and out within 2 – 3 hours. I applaud you guys for that because we’re usually stuck in the ER at UC Davis hospital in sac for 6 – 12 hours. They were able to do blood work, X-​rays, and other tests without making us wait 1 – 2 hours in between each. Thank you for the decent visit.

This review is based on my experience at the Birthing Center at Sutter Davis. Nurse Christi and Dr. Zoe Tilton really was our savior and we will forever be grateful for their help. At 36 weeks we found out that our baby was no longer in position and was breech. It was so stressful because it is my 2^nd pregnancy and I had already envisioned a vaginal birth since my previous one was. I value a natural birthing process and wanted to avoid a c-​section. I wish I had known of Davis Sutter Birthing center sooner. We live in San Jose, Ca. and unfortunately we did not receive very much network/​support or even information on options from our local health care providers in the area. We actually changed 2 OBs within the last 4 weeks but it was the same scenario all the OBs (in the South Bay) do not offer/​no longer breech vaginal delivery, they only offered us one option which was cesarean.
I really have to say it was a miracle how we stumbled on meeting Dr. Zoe Tilton. At 40 weeks I received a phone call from Dr. Tilton following up on a phone call I had made a week earlier but never followed through on my end. I was trying to look for a Doctor who would help me perform a ECV (version to turn the baby). But sort of gave up hope since my OB (at the time) said, they wouldn’t do it due to the location of placenta. Dr. Zoe TIlton said, she would meet me and base on our phone conversation she did not see it being a problem. I was blown away most doctor offices wouldn’t go beyond a sentence when they heard that I am in my last trimester. For a doctor who has never met me and the fact that I was 40 going on 41 weeks pregnant was really amazing. The part that was so touching is Dr. Tilton actually came in on her day off to meet me to preform the version. We drove to Davis the next morning to attempt the version. The moment I met nurse Christi and Dr. Tilton I had an instant connection and I would trust them with my life. They were so kind and listened to my concerns and did not over-​impose with any medical procedures. Unfortunately, despite of the Dr. best effort to turn the baby, she wouldn’t budge and remained in the same position. I was appreciative for their efforts and decided that day that I would stay w/​my local OB in Mt. View and proceed w/​a c-​section. With a heavy heart we left and drove home to San Jose.
Things escalated with our OB in Mountain View, Ca. and our local OB at the time kept imposing so much medical intervention on us especially persuading us to move the c-​section date sooner without a firm probable cause. I was constantly, asking my OB (at the time) why we need 3 stress test back to back when all of them indicated baby was happy, also why she would be concerned with the placenta bleeding when ultrasound and stress test did not indicate complications. It turned out, that my OB received a fax from Sutter Davis in regards, to my EVC few days earlier, my OB (at the time) was very upset that I had gone to another Dr. to get an EVC performed despite of the fact that she did not feel I was a good candidate for that procedure. My personal views and our OB were like fire and water. The relationship continued getting more awkward especially 1 day before my scheduled c-​section. It was important to me to have a doctor who would be supportive of their patients views and respect them. I knew I couldn’t continue on with her, but how was I suppose to find another OB at almost 41 weeks?! I contacted Sutter Davis and amazingly they took me in as their patient even though I was almost 41 weeks along. Nurse Christi (significant help arranged for me to come in) went above and beyond to help me get an appointment ASAP to meet with Dr. Zoe Tilton. As, I mentioned previously, I felt an instant trust and connection w/​them from our earlier meeting and it really made a difference. I returned to Davis hoping that I would meet the criteria for a vaginal breech delivery and at Sutter Davis. However, between just a few days (from our initial meeting) the baby’s leg shifted from being a complete breech position to a footling. I was disappointed because I no longer met the criteria for a breech vaginal delivery, however compared to what we experienced with our previous OB’s this was much more relaxing and tension free. I knew that Dr. Tilton had tried her best to honor my requests. We even, tried for version one last time before a c-​section. Baby, still didn’t budge so I did ended up with a cesarean. Although, in the end I did not end up with the natural vaginal delivery I so badly, desired. It was still amazing to see the facility’s atmosphere and I truly feel lucky to be cared for by their staffs. The atmosphere was super relaxing and every nurse that interacted with me was very personable. Thank you so much Sutter Davis Birthing center! I truly, wish that this Birthing center will help influence other birthing hospitals to have the same warm, natural and caring approach/​model.

Whether your comming to the ER or here for lab tests the staff is always friendly knowledgable and make you feel like everything will be ok. I have been a patient here for 20years. When my sons apendix ruptured we came to the ER and they got him into surgery immediately. The nurses all did such a great job of calming us both down that i was able to fall asleep while he was in surgery. All went well and he was home a few days later.
I go to family medicine occupational health lab and womens care all in the same hospital. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!

Happy to be having our little girl Stevie here due in January of 2016. We’ve seen Blanche now twice and we are going to try and see her for the rest of our scheduled visits. She’s a mid wife with an advanced nursing degree and we both love her. She’s to the point, jokes with us and really knows her stuff.

My 96 year old father broke his hip on a Sunday. Sutter’s ER was terrific in calming him down and treating him well. Then, up to ICU. Jane, Svetlana, Lana, Nicole, Jane were all terrific and always had smiles. Dr. Porter is a wonderful ortho. Did a terrific job on my Dad, who can be challenging and not in pain. PT worked with him and got him off to URC after only 3 nights in the hospital. Pretty terrific and I would recommend SUtter Davis Hospital to anyone.

By all means the best doctors I’ve seen, Dr. Katzenmeyer is brilliant and sharp, and the blood work and lab services are immediate and great, and the online system is super awesome too. My only complaint is that they won’t be able to tell you before a procedure how much it will cost you, but you can just call your insurance to see

If you want to be constantly asked if your a drug addict while you cry in pain this is your place. Even at 43 under a Sutter West doctors care, had a baby there 3 months earlier have 9 years of Sutter West medical records, and that still didn’t help the staff treat not me like an addict until my x-​Rays came back then it’s like I’m so sorry here’s some pills have a nice day call your doctor. :(

Pretty bad customer service in the ER. We waited like an hour to be seen. I tried to go back to the ER to get my girlfriends wallet after we got moved for an x ray. They wouldn’t let me in.

The reasons for my negative review are many. My husband and i have been subject to substandard care provided by Sutter Davis for years. Only now, since changing hospitals, do we see how abysmal the quality of care we received was. Our family has been failed by Sutter Davis on multiple occasions on an institutional level. Our grievances with the hospital include outlandish diagnoses, egregious violations of confidentiality, and rude or even hostile relations with hospital staff. Following are a list of instances where Sutter Davis not only did not provide adequate medical care, but caused significant physical, emotional and mental harm to one or more members of my family.
During my first pregnancy, As you may see on a previous Unilocal review, our assigned midwife Blanch Skubic was a nightmare. She belittled me for making choices that would protect my unborn child, attacked me verbally about my desire to know the sex of my child, and criticized my marriage (including suggesting both counseling and DIVORCE). Once i went into labor, No epidural was made available to me upon request and the requested dula spent the majority of her time with me disinterestedly reading a magazine like it was her lunch break. Later i came to find not only did the staff talk poorly about my delivery as well as my husband and i during out stay after the delivery, but did so in front of other patients. The betrayal of any semblance of confidentiality is not only infuriating, but deeply disturbs me, as now i am unsure what of my medical history has been shared with strangers without my knowledge or consent.
Our sons pediatric care was also unacceptable. Our pediatrician gave us fantastical diagnoses for ailments that proved to be quite mundane. An example of this is identifying a small diaper rash as a necrotic spider bite from a brown recluse (A spider who does not live in this state and in fact does not live within a thousand miles of this state). And despite our explaining we have not been to the southeastern united states, not had we had any recent neighbors, and had seen no such spider, he refused to entertain the idea that it could be anything other than a brown recluse bite. Another example is diagnosing a cough as pertussis and sending us via ambulance to the Sutter Memorial hospital pediatric ICU for 4 days, where our son showed no drop in oxygenation and no blood cultures showed pertussis (or any other major illness for that matter).
My Husband recieved an Appendectomy at Sutter Davis which became massively infected, leaving him bedridden for weeks.
My second pregnancy was a difficult one, and the difficulty was largely compounded by the lack of adequate care provided by Sutter Davis. Early on i began experiencing pain in my abdomen which was incorrectly identified as a side effect of my pregnancy, when it continued it was again misdiagnoses as appendicitis and despite the risks posed to my unborn daughter, i was pressured into what turned out to be an unnecessary appendectomy. When the pain did not go away afterwards it was a third time it was misdiagnosed as recovery from the surgery. When the pain would not go away my OB Dr. Beth Johnson informed me it was not going to get better and suggested i terminate the pregnancy. As my husband and i were adamant that we wanted to keep the baby, we sought a second opinion from a nurse practitioner also at Sutter Davis. After a few weeks she also said she could do nothing more for me and suggested i find another doctor. Discouraged my husband and i began to look for care elsewhere. Before we could find it though the pain became to great and we went to the Sutter Davis emergency room, where they told me the pain was constipation, and sent me home with a bottle of GoLYTELY. The next day, when i was unable to ingest it from the pain, we sought a second opinion and went to go see Dr. Blankenship at Sutter Family Medicine. She pointed out the urine test taken the night bofore had blood in it, which was news to us. The emergency room failed to mention this to us. She was concerned so sent us to the hospital to have a blood panel done. She got the results rushed, and saw there was a major problem with my C-​Reactive Protein and coagulation levels, and advised us to return to the emergency room immediately. When we returned to the emergency room where the attending doctor told us our family doctor was wrong and sent us home with the exact same diagnosis and medicine as they had the night before. We drove from Sutter Davis to Sutter Roseville where i was immediately admitted due to what i would come to find out was my liver failing. Had we listened to the doctors at Sutter Davis my condition would have likely killed me and my unborn daughter.
We received excellent and compassionate care at Sutter Roseville, and now that we have seen how medical care should be handled we realize exactly how poorly we were cared for at Sutter Davis. My family and i will never return.

Severely lacks humanity. Two horrid experiences with his hospital, one where I was repeatedly asked to sign documents while under painkillers that gave me double vision prior to and left me fog headed after surgery, and another where I was held under false pretenses attempting (but failing) to revisit the hospital to ask if I could see the room where this had all happened. Should have, at worst, been taken in for loitering — and was instead held for months for supposed paranoid schizophrenia, something that had not even been suggested by therapists I saw for my actual anxiety issues for years prior despite constant nagging on my part about what could possibly be wrong with me.
Much better experience with UCD health center — which should not be much of a shock.

Whenever I have to go to the ER I make the drive to this hospital even though sacramento ER’s are a little closer. I went into the ER the other night with severe abdominal pain and vomiting. I’m a nurse and a paramedic so I very rarely will go into the ER, but after 2 hours I needed to go. The only reason why i gave this a ⁴⁄₅ stars is because of the wait. I understand that we have to wait for an available nurse for each bed and that there was only one doctor but the triage nurse acted like nothing was wrong with me and then when a bed was available even though I could barely walk due to the pain no wheelchair was offered. I had have to wait for a long time for the doctor (which i understand because he was the only one on duty that night) but after the wait it was smooth sailing. Dr. Palmeri got my pain under control as soon as he saw me and did all tests necessary to figure out what was wrong with me and that I needed surgery. The surgery staff were amazing. From the nurses, anesthesiologist, surgeon everyone. They were all amazing. Completely set my mind at ease, let my boyfriend stay with me the entire time and the surgeon allowed him to come in as soon as I woke up. They even sent me a personalized get well card. They went above and beyond and I am incredibly thankful for their care.

This review is for the OBGYN and birthing center only. The birthing center was one of the best experiences of my life. I was able to have a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) in a birthing tub, which was an absolute dream and allowed me to have my second son without any pain medication on April 10, 2013. Dr. Annette Fineburg is one of the most calming, patient, caring OBs I have ever encountered. She has a 75% success rate for VBAC births, an option most OBs won’t even give a woman who has had a C-​section. She even told me she vaginally delivered breech twins… she is superwoman of the uterus!
I would recommend this place to any woman who wants to feel like she is in control of her body and her birthing. Who wants to feel respected and supported by the team of doctors and nurses on staff. Who want to have a good start to a life of motherhood — because your birthing experience will never be forgotten!

This is to thank the small army of healthcare professionals at Sutter Davis. I had a pretty serious operation there this week, and needed massive tending-​to for my 24-​hour stay. You all were first-​rate in your skills & patient care. It was phenomenal! I made you work for it — even the Rapid Response team was involved at one point! The facility is beautiful & wonderfully equipped.
My wife & are deeply grateful to you all.
I will sing your praises for a long time to come. THANK YOU.

been waiting for so long in the emergency room. what if i die before i reach the hospital bed? it’ll be all their fault

Really just wanted to say that appointments are now available for lab work at Sutter Davis! This is great! I have always gotten wonderful service and courteous treatment there, but now, I won’t have to wait again if I go there when it’s busy.

My parents were in a gnarly car accident and were taken to the ER at Sutter Davis. Dr. Michael J. Palchak looked after them. My father was let go with a broken leg and some meds. Other than soreness, they couldn’t find anything wrong with my mother, and let her go with meds. My mother continued to complain about her pain, especially in her chest, so I took her back to Sutter Davis, Urgent Care, then ER, where we saw Dr. Palchak again a week later.
We sat there 8 hours and after another examination found nothing. It’s been 3 weeks and my mothers pain and swelling is only now starting to go down. After a recent visit to her general practitioner, they discovered my mother had broken her sternum and 5 ribs. Now sure how two separate visits to Sutter Davis ER overlooked this seemingly major injury. Very disappointed by the piss poor care given to my mother under the care of Dr. Palchak and Sutter Davis ER.

This hospital has a Farmer’s Market every single Thursday morning from 10am to 2pm! Yah that is a great thing for the entire hospital staff. Fresh fruit and veggies every single week. The staff here are also pretty awesome and they make you feel at home and welcome with just a smile. I am all over that. I wish it was closer to my house as I love the atmosphere. The cafeteria has great food but their hours are kind of different. They close for 2 hours after breakfast and do not open until 11:30am for lunch. When they close for lunch they are closed for 2 hours before dinner. Overall great hospital with competent staffing.

This review is for the OBGYN, pediatric, and birthing center only. I’ve heard horror stories about the ER here from EMTs, but the departments I’ve had service st have been phenomenial. The birthing center is a hidden gem. We had an amazing stay at the birthing center after an unplanned cesarean. Honestly we wouldn’t have our daughter if the staff hadn’t interviewed during her birthing process. Our stay was amazing, the staff was so helpful. Both the RNs and lactation consultants were so helpful. Having a preemie baby was hard, but the staff made sure we were prepared to take care of our daughter. I can’t tell you just how amazing this whole experience was I would recommend this place to anyone.

Love my care the past 20yrs here at Sutter Davis! I have been to other hospitals in other areas and your treated like a number… staff always seems happy and treated well here. and that carries over to the patients… This is the main reason I will not move. Keep up the great job!

Best birthing center, pediatric and ER. I will alway make the drive out to Davis from Sacramento to come to this hospital!!!

I absolutely LOVE this place! I live about 25 miles away and have been happy to make this drive since I first got pregnant. I LOVED the midwives, they were great through my whole pregnancy. The birth center was amazing, I had the perfect water birth and the staff was one hundred percent supportive and accommodating through the whole thing. If you are looking to have a natural hospital birth, this is the place!
My baby now sees Dr. Oberholtzer and has since the day she was born. Dr. O and his staff are so great, I really can’t say enough about this hospital.