"Our technology exists because people care enough to make it happen. Our knowledge grows because people care about training and education and setting standards to an ever-higher mark. Still, with all our technology, with all our knowledge, there is no single more valuable element in the healing process than our combined capacity to care. When people care, miracles happen"
- Author Unknown

Vision Statement

It is the vision of the Fremont-Rideout Health Group, in keeping with our commitment of providing quality health care to the Yuba-Sutter community, to continuously seek to meet the changing health care needs of the population we serve.

History

The Yuba-Sutter region's rich and fascinating history includes establishment of hospitals in the 1900's to provide health care for the local communities. Rideout Memorial Hospital was founded in 1907 while Fremont Medical Center's beginnings can be traced to the 1920s. As the communities grew, separate leadership directed the progress and operations of Fremont and Rideout hospitals.

In 1983, the management of the two hospitals determined that the health care needs of the Yuba-Sutter communities would be better served and resources more efficiently managed by combining the hospitals to create a united health care system. As a result, United Communities Medical Services was formed. The name changed to Fremont-Rideout Health Group in 1992 and today operates as a not-for-profit community-based health care system. FRHG is governed by a 13-member volunteer community Board of Directors.

Each hospital has maintained its original purposes. Fremont Hospital provides family practice, obstetrics, pediatrics and general surgery. Rideout Hospital specializes in more acute care and diagnostics and a 24-hour physician staffed Level lll Trauma Center, along with the cardiac intervention and surgery programs.

In 2001, Biggs-Gridley Memorial Hospital in Gridley, CA. merged with Fremont-Rideout Health Group. The 49-bed acute care hospital was established in 1949.

Today, Fremont-Rideout Health Group provides Yuba-Sutter residents with general medical/surgical care and a full range of support and ancillary departments, as well as intensive care units for severely ill and injured patients.

Accreditation

Fremont Medical Center and Rideout Memorial Hospital are accredited by the California Medical Association and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)(American College of Physicians, American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association).

Licensing

Each hospital is licensed by the State of California, Department of Public Health and certified by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.