Sutter Coast offers a variety of medical services

Sutter Coast Hospital can trace its roots back to 1931 as a small, privately funded hospital located on the Crescent  City waterfront. Today, Sutter Coast is a modern, 59-bed facility, licensed by both California and Oregon, and provides healthcare services throughout the region.  Sutter Coast  Hospital has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™; a distinction reserved only for Joint Commission accredited and certified organizations.

An affiliate of Sutter Health, one of the country’s leading not-for-profit health networks, Sutter Coast  Hospital offers the resources of a multi-hospital health system with local, community-based governance. The hospital has a volunteer Board of Trustees composed of citizens from Curry and Del Norte counties that provide direction and guidance for the hospital and numerous specialty clinics in Crescent City and Brookings.  

Sutter Coast Hospital is one of the largest private employers in the region, providing more than 400 jobs.  As a not-for-profit organization, the hospital provides charity care, health education and community benefit programs totaling over $11 million annually.

Services available at Sutter  Coast Hospital include:

• •    General medical care, intensive/cardiac care, obstetrics/maternity care, emergency care, surgery, mammography, lithotripsy, home health and pediatrics are among the services provided.  These advantages are available to all residents and visitors to America’s Wild Rivers  Coast.
• •    The Medical and Surgical Units at Sutter  Coast Hospital serve patients of all ages over a wide range of conditions, including a separate treatment area for pediatric patients.  
• •    The hospital has four operating room suites and a 12-bed Ambulatory Surgery unit. Surgical services include general surgery, gynecology, orthopedics, ophthalmology, urology and some dental surgery.
• •    The Intensive/Cardiac Care Unit contains 10 beds, with four extra telemetry beds. The Sutter Coast ICU provides round-the-clock monitoring by intensive care specialists, using video interface and other telemedicine technology.  This provides local physicians and ICU nurses an extra layer of support for monitoring a patient’s vital signs and determining treatment options.
• •    The OB Department welcomes over 360 babies a year and offers same-room maternity care for moms and babies in four labor, delivery and recovery suites. C-sections and epidural anesthesia are available 24 hours a day.
• •    Treating about 2,000 patients per month, the Emergency Department provides the region’s foremost trauma care. The department is a designated Level IV Oregon Trauma Center and is staffed with certified trauma nurses and physicians who are trained in advance trauma life support and pediatric life support.
• •    The Sutter Coast Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Department offers modern diagnostics with advanced technology such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), lithotripsy, digital mammography, X-ray, ultrasound and CT.  All imaging procedures at Sutter Coast  Hospital are captured digitally and can be transmitted directly to physician offices or contained on a CD.

Sutter Coast Hospital is located at 800 E. Washington Blvd., Crescent  City, 707-464-8511 or 541-469-9611

Sutter Coast Health Center Walk-In Clinic offers prompt treatment for non-life-threatening medical problems.  Staffed by qualified, licensed physician assistants, family nurse practitioners, and nurses, the health center offers daily walk-in services as a convenient and cost-effective alternative to the Emergency Room.  The Health  Center is open seven days a week, every day of the year except Thanksgiving and Christmas.  No appointment is necessary.The hours:   Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 9:45 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The Walk-In Clinic is located at 785 East  Washington Boulevard, Crescent City (across the street from Sutter Coast  Hospital), (707) 464-8818.

Sutter Coast Health Center @ Brookings Harbor is staffed by two board-certified internal medicine physicians: Alex Leighton, M.D., and Juliane Leighton, M.D.  Patients can be seen at Sutter  Coast Health  Center @ Brookings-Harbor Monday-Friday. It is located at 555  5th Street, Suite 2,  Brookings, Ore., (541) 469-9205.

Sutter Coast Home Care brings a variety of services into the home.  Licensed Home Health nurses work under the direction of a physician to assist with patient teaching, wound care, IV therapy, pain management, catheter care and other complex nursing procedures.  Licensed physical therapists, occupational therapists, medical social workers and certified home health aides are also available to provide care in the home setting. To reach Sutter Coast Home Care, call (707) 464-8741 or (541) 469-1828.

Sutter Coast Community Clinic opened in November 2006.  Since then, the medical staff has grown to include five physicians and a nurse-midwife. The family specialties and providers are: Stephen Ruda, D.O., and Christina Seed, D.O., obstetrics and gynecology: John Tynes, M.D., Elie Hobeika, M.D., and Margo Pfunder, CNM., pediatrics: Carla Nelson, MD. The Sutter Coast Community Clinic is located at 785 E. Washington Blvd., Crescent City (behind Sutter Coast Hospital), Family Practice, 707-464-5974, OB-Gyn & Pediatrics 707-464-6715.