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    Sutter Gould Announces the Opening of a Second Medical Office Building at the Stockton Medical Plaza

    December 9, 2009
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Sutter Gould Medical Foundation Opens Second Medical Office Building; Completes Stockton Medical Plaza

    STOCKTON –Sutter Gould Medical Foundation (SGMF) announced today that the second medical office building (SMP II) on the Stockton Medical Plaza campus at Hammer Lane and Don Avenue will open for patients beginning December 14.

    For more information on the services and physicians available please click on this Stockton Medical Plaza link.

    “This project has enabled our Stockton-based Gould Medical Group specialists to move to the Plaza, and provides our patients a one-stop medical services experience,” said Paul DeChant, M.D., Chief Executive Office for Sutter Gould Medical Foundation. “We are extremely pleased with the way the project turned out.”

    The new medical office building will provide office and exam rooms for specialists including dermatology, ENT, OB/Gyn, orthopedics, gynecology, pain management, urology, and general and vascular surgery. Primary care physicians, endocrinology and neurology will remain in the first building, or “SMP I”. The two buildings are connected by SGMF’s state-of-the-art imaging center and laboratory.

    “Patients will be able to see their primary care physician, have lab work done, take an x-ray or CT scan, and see a specialist without leaving cover of our facilities,” said DeChant. “That was our goal, to provide expert care in a convenient manner. We believe the Stockton Medical Plaza fulfills that goal.”

    “An Urgent Care Center is another key feature of SMP II that we’ve added for our patients, and will open in the near future,” said Bruce Tigner, SGMF’s San Joaquin County Chief Operations Officer. “With the Urgent Care Center, our patients can see a Gould physician when they might not be able to see their regular Gould doctor – including extended weekday hours or on the weekends.”

    Technology a part of the equation – including a paperless medical record
    As with all of SGMF’s projects, the surgery center is equipped with the latest health technology features. EPIC, Sutter Gould’s electronic medical record system, allows Gould physicians to access a patient’s medical record instantly to review lab results, prior physician visits, and prescription histories. The computer resources at the physician’s fingertips also include PACS, a filmless picture archiving and communications system that allows Gould radiologists to share digital images and diagnoses instead of shipping X-ray film between locations.

    Commitment to Northern California health care
    The Medical Plaza is one part of the Sutter Gould’s commitment to improve, replace or build care centers in the Central Valley. SGMF’s Surgery Center opened at the Stockton campus in April, and in Modesto, a new clinic was built at their 600 Coffee Road site, after 54 years in the existing building.

    Sutter Gould Medical Foundation has care centers in Stockton, Lodi and Tracy in San Joaquin County, as well as Modesto and many communities throughout Stanislaus County. SGMF is part of Sutter Health, a family of not-for-profit hospitals and physician organizations that share resources and expertise to advance health care quality. Providing personalized care in more than 100 communities throughout Northern California, the Sutter Health network is a regional leader in cardiac care, cancer treatment, orthopedics, obstetrics, and newborn intensive care, and is a pioneer in advanced patient safety technology.

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