Solano Group Earns Awards For Health Care

Solano Group Earns Awards For Health Care
By DAN JUDGE/Times-Herald staff writer
Vallejo Times Herald

FAIRFIELD - The Solano Regional Medical Group has earned top performance awards from the Integrated Healthcare Association.

The organization, affiliated with the Sutter Regional Medical Foundation, was honored for its overall health care quality. Categories include preventative care and chronic care management, patient satisfaction and the use of in-formation technology to support safer care.

Solano Regional Medical Group also received the IHA's Ronald P. Bangasser, M.D., Memorial Award for Quality Improvement for showing the most year-over-year progress from 2005 to 2006 in the Sacramento/North Region.

"Frankly, I couldn't be more proud of this medical group and the entire association," said Dr. Samuel Santoro, president of Solano Regional Medical Group.

The awards were given for a number of areas, he said, including the organization's commitment to promoting healthy life-styles and preventative health screenings.

"Basically, we are extremely focused on providing the highest possible care," Santoro said. "We want to catch problems before they get a chance to develop out of control."

Service and satisfaction also are major commitments for the group, he said, which includes getting people appointments when they want them and providing access to some of the finest specialists in the region.

Solano Regional Medical Group is Solano County's largest multi-specialty physician practice. It operates care centers in Vallejo, Fairfield, Vacaville and Rio Vista.