June 5, 2023 – Sutter Health has named Todd Smith, M.D., to the newly created role of senior vice president and chief physician executive. He will officially start in this new role on June 12.
Dr. Smith will serve on Sutter Health’s executive leadership team and will have broad responsibility for leading the system’s clinical transformation in providing consumer-centric, seamless, and integrated care across one of the country’s largest healthcare delivery systems.
As CPE, Dr. Smith will spearhead Sutter’s continued focus on high-quality care and safety and oversee and further embed Sutter’s Institute for Advancing Health Equity across the system’s integrated care delivery model. He will be responsible for delivering systemwide service line standards, reducing clinical variation, and developing and deepening physician relationships with medical group and community physicians across Sutter’s footprint. Dr. Smith will provide physician leadership to all system-level clinical initiatives, while advancing strategic opportunities and relationships to continue improving Sutter’s coordinated care.
Dr. Smith will work closely with Mark Sevco, who starts at Sutter Health on June 5, as senior vice president and chief operating officer. In dyad leadership partnership, Dr. Smith and Sevco will together oversee acute, clinic and ambulatory operations, including aligning Sutter’s community-based market structure within a connected enterprise-wide clinical ecosystem focused on investing in best-in-class service lines and expanding access for Sutter’s more than 3.3 million patients across Northern California.