Sutter Health announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Hayashida Physical Therapy, a provider of outpatient physical therapy services in Santa Barbara.
The acquisition includes both Hayashida locations—Santa Barbara (319 Anacapa Street) and Goleta (271 N. Fairview Avenue). They will now be combined with Sutter Health’s Goleta Physical Therapy office (5385 Hollister Avenue), with the three sites comprising Sutter’s Greater Central Coast Physical Therapy department, serving a combined 8,700 patients each year.
Patients of Hayashida PT have been ensured they can continue to see the same physical therapists, with little to no disruption in services.
“We are excited to become part of Sutter Health’s expanding and innovative organization and feel aligned with our mutual ambitions to continue developing clinical excellence while creating new access points for our active community” said Maury Hayashida, DPT, who founded Hayashida Physical Therapy in 2002 as an orthopedic and sports rehabilitation center. “We take great pride in the culture of life-long learning that we have created over the past 23 years. Starting Santa Barbara County’s first orthopedic physical therapy residency program is one example. Better clinicians contribute to better outcomes, which help people live better lives,” commented Hayashida.
Sutter Health states that Hayashida Physical Therapy will gain access to expanded resources, operational support, and clinical integration. The practice’s established sports performance expertise will complement Sutter Health’s experience in treating patients with sports conditions and injuries, as well as general orthopedic conditions.
“Physical therapy plays a key role in the healing process as patients recover and regain strength, flexibility and mobility,” shared Sutter Health orthopedic surgeon Dr. Corina Brown. “This new partnership represents a great opportunity to deliver even further on our promise to provide patients comprehensive, specialized orthopedic and sports medicine care. I could not be more excited to partner with Hayashida Physical Therapy in continuing to provide the highest quality resources to our community, getting patients back to doing what they love.”
Orthopedic physicians on Sutter’s Central Coast have experience with joint replacement, minimally invasive sport surgeries, and endoscopic spine surgery at Sutter’s Foothill Surgery Center.
Sutter states that Hayashida’s orthopedic physical therapy residency program will continue to expand as it joins Sutter’s orthopedics and sports medicine service line. As a combined department, it will serve as a host site for post-doctoral specialty training, creating a pathway for physical therapy talent to remain on the Central Coast.
“We are proud to welcome Hayashida Physical Therapy into the Sutter Health family,” said Dr. Kurt N. Ransohoff, President, Sutter Health’s Greater Central Coast. “This investment preserves a vital community resource and strengthens access to physical therapy services, reflecting our commitment to providing the highest quality of care to patients throughout the communities we serve.”
Sutter Health, based in Northern California, acquired Sansum Clinic, the largest health care nonprofit in Santa Barbara County, in 2023. Sutter Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system currently serving more than 3.5 million patients, with more than 60,000 employees and clinicians, and 14,000+ affiliated physicians in over 200 locations in Northern and Central California.
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Sutter Health is slowly buying up healthcare assets, maybe in order to sell it to a bigger network? Cottage is always ready to absorb competition.
I would prefer it if Cottage could get Sutter out of town. I recently had a recent scary experience with them that is too long to address here and now, but internally, Sansum/Sutter is in chaos. They have been bleeding PCP’s – either fed up or fired, and the ones who are remaining are overworked beyond reason.I was a healthcare executive for 30 years and I know substandard care when I see it.
I have had 36 communications with Sutter patents and 35 of them were negative, and at least one of them will end in a nasty lawsuit, if it hasn’t already. If you are interested, there is a thread on Next Door which addresses folks’ concerns. Sutter might look calm and collected on the outside, but inside the organization – not so much.
If you are a patient at Sutter/Sansum I would encourage you to do some checking WRT to your own PCP and caregivers, and any other changes which might have happened since last time you needed them. As a lifelong Santa Barbarian, I remember when Sansum was considered a “plum” to attract world class physicians. The “Mayo Clinic” of the West, in SANTA BARBARA, no less!
Now, none of that is true. I’m sad on two levels – 1) the loss of prestige and quality physicians for our community, which has always had a robust and excellent health care system, especially for a city the size of SB, and 2) I’m still a patient there. I think I am fortunate enough that my PCP is still there, but he is less accessible, follows up less frequently, and it takes and Act of Congress (and they have been on vacation since the end of July, for all intents and purposes) to get routine refills of non-controversial drugs, some of which keep me alive. God forbid they acquire Cottage Health Systems. If so, we are screwed.
Keep calm and carry on, Tex. Panic isn’t a great way to go. If you’re looking for an improvement in your personal healthcare, you need to go out of town for some things that are really important “to your survival”, as you said. You should know that already since you were a healthcare exec for over 30 yrs., right? UCLA and Cedars are not far away if you’re seriously worried.
Yeah, no. Sutter is giant compared with little Cottage.
I think its the other way around. Sutter is a much bigger health system than Cottage.
Hayashida & Assoc was my “go to” for all my ortho rehabs & they were excellent, great staff. This acquisition will lead to Sutter managing their overhead & employee costs and driving the quality of care down. It won’t happen immediately but it will start in about 9 months.