Giving
Dear Friend,
As the new year begins, we want to take this opportunity to thank you for your support of Sansum Clinic, now part of Sutter Health. Your generosity plays an essential role in helping us deliver the high-quality, compassionate healthcare our community needs and deserves. Thanks to our partnership with Sutter Health and our donor community, 2025 was a year of remarkable progress, innovation and expanded access to care.
Over the past year, we have continued to integrate the strengths of Sansum Clinic and Sutter Health, and our community is already feeling the benefits. Philanthropy has been a driving force behind many of our most meaningful advancements. We are proud to share just a few highlights from 2025.
Transformational Investment in Physician Recruitment
Thanks to a generous $1 million gift from Rich and Roz Rosin, our Lovelace Fund for Medical Excellence and Physician Housing Program continued to grow. In 2025 alone, 12 physicians were offered shared appreciation home loans. This program is crucial in helping highly skilled specialists afford to live and work in Santa Barbara. Your philanthropic partnership ensures we can recruit and retain the clinical talent our community depends on.
Advancing Women’s Health
Philanthropy powered extraordinary progress in women’s health this year through our Women’s Health Initiative (WHI):
- Several clinicians earned Menopause Society Certified Practitioner credentials, strengthening our ability to deliver expert, compassionate care for women in midlife.
- At the 2025 American Society of Breast Surgeons annual meeting, Dr. Katrina Mitchell provided national education on safely treating breast cancer during and after pregnancy, offering practical tools that help surgeons better support women facing this diagnosis.
- WHI successfully launched a $510,000 campaign to acquire a new 3D Hologic Mammography System, which will allow us to serve 6,000-10,000 more women each year with the most advanced screening technology available.
- Soon, our community will have access to a new standard in breast health. Our upcoming Breast Imaging Center is designed to transform care by bringing the entire spectrum of services—screening, diagnosis, treatment, navigation and survivorship—together under one trusted care team. This comprehensive, coordinated approach will be unique in our region, ensuring that every step of breast care happens seamlessly, close to home.
Cutting-Edge Technology Through Donor Support
In 2025, local philanthropy and Sutter Health made it possible for our Foothill Surgery Center to be the first outpatient surgery center in the United States to acquire a da Vinci 5 robotic surgical system, bringing hospital-level precision to an ambulatory setting. This illustrates how donor generosity helps bring state-of-the-art surgical tools to our community, allowing patients to heal in the comfort of their own home.
Expanding Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Access
We also made a strategic move to broaden our rehabilitation and sports medicine services by acquiring Hayashida Physical Therapy, one of Santa Barbara County’s most respected outpatient physical therapy providers. With locations in Santa Barbara and Goleta, Hayashida Physical Therapy will continue as part of the Sutter Greater Central Coast Physical Therapy department, allowing us to serve approximately 8,700 new patients annually across our three physical therapy sites.
As we look ahead to 2026, we are excited to build upon this momentum. We are continuing to recruit new clinicians, expand access to primary and specialty care, invest in new clinical sites, and bring the most advanced medical technology to Santa Barbara and our surrounding communities.
And while joining Sutter Health brings significant new resources, we remain a nonprofit healthcare organization that continues to rely on generous donors and community support. As always, every gift contributed in this community stays in this community, directly benefiting the patients we serve.
Please accept our deepest gratitude for your ongoing support.
Here’s to a happy and healthy 2026!