101 Years of Groundbreaking Medical Excellence

Take a look at any person in front or back of you in line at the grocery store, and chances are one of them is a patient of Sansum Clinic.

No wonder. 

Sansum Clinic remains the largest independent nonprofit outpatient healthcare organization between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. Today, Sansum Clinic cares for more than 123,000 patients annually, across 23 different locations on the Central Coast, spanning more than 50 specialties and service lines. 

“One out of two people in southern Santa Barbara County come to Sansum Clinic,” says Director of Marketing Jill Fonte. “We offer the full breadth of healthcare services. We take care of patients throughout their lifetime, with everything from pediatrics to geriatrics.” 

But numbers are just part of the story. Sansum Clinic’s commitment to ensuring the latest technology and treatments are available for its patients helps to keep Santa Barbara as advanced in medical sciences as much larger cities. 

From its top-of-the-line surgery centers and imaging machines to the world-class Ridley-Tree Cancer Center, investments in infrastructure and innovation are the organization’s hallmark.

This approach also extends to customer service via the most evolved forms of digital and virtual patient communication, including Telehealth and MyChart to the WELL™ text platform to better connect with patients. 

“As always, our greatest asset is our people – the 220+ physicians and more than 1,200 staff members,” says Kurt N. Ransohoff, MD, FACP, and Sansum Clinic’s CEO and Chief Medical Officer. “Together, we are committed to delivering on our mission of providing an excellent healthcare experience, recognizing our first priority is the patients we serve.”

Sansum Clinic’s leadership is particularly proud of how the organization simultaneously fought COVID-19 while still delivering essential care for the community. That included creating countless vaccine clinics staffed by an army of doctors, nurses and medical assistants, and running the county’s first drive-up appointment-based COVID-19 testing operation, all while demonstrating a capacity to uphold the highest standards of quality, ethics, and professionalism across all of the clinic. 

With COVID-19 appearing to be more manageable, Sansum Clinic is excited to turn its focus to planning and preparing to care for the community for another 100 years.