Sutter Health’s hospital in Davis is about to embark on a large-scale expansion of its emergency and birthing services.
The Sacramento-based health system recently filed planning documents that show a $51.8 million expansion of Sutter Davis Hospital. The documents were filed with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
With about 48 beds, Sutter Davis is one of Sutter Health’s smaller hospitals. The upcoming expansion could see upwards of 25 rooms and five beds added to the hospital, which is at 2000 Sutter Place in Davis.
Plans show a single-story expansion for the hospital’s birthing center, which would add nine new rooms for labor and delivery, cesarean sections and postpartum care. The project's square footage was not immediately available.
The expansion could also see Sutter add 11 new emergency department treatment rooms, as well as five rooms for triage and five new medical-surgical beds.
"To best care for our patients and communities now and into the future, we have developed a master facility plan that will expand key areas of the hospital: our emergency department, our birthing center and our medical-surgical unit," Sutter Davis CEO Rachael McKinney said in an emailed statement.
In 2018, Sutter Davis saw 29,078 emergency room visits, a figure that has grown slightly over recent years, according to its audited financial statements. Back in 2015 the hospital had 28,595 emergency room visits.
The number of patients visiting Sutter Davis's emergency room is comparable to that of Dignity Health’s Woodland Memorial Hospital, which is the only other hospital in Yolo County. Woodland Memorial had 27,463 emergency department visits in its fiscal year ending June 2018, according to financial statements filed with OSHPD.
Sutter Davis brought in $450 million in gross patient revenue and $15.3 million in net income last year, according to its audited financial statements.