Tag archives: Kurt Ransohoff

Stronger Together: Sansum Clinic and Sutter Health Unite to Elevate Patient Care
By Tiana Molony   |   October 1, 2025

More than 100 years ago, two medical clinics in Santa Barbara were taking shape, both grounded in the ethos that group practice with a variety of specialties was the best way to provide high quality healthcare accessible to all. Some 80 years later after decades of growth, the two groups joined forces and adopted the […]

Preparing for the Next 100 Years New Chair of Sansum Clinic Board Ready to Take on Competition
By Nick Masuda   |   November 22, 2021

Arnold Schaffer is aware of the obstacles that Sansum Clinic faces as the last remaining independent not-for-profit medical clinic in the state of California. The pandemic? It shut down or delayed outpatient surgeries and imaging centers — services that are needed not only for the community, but also to allow the clinic to operate. Competition? […]

Mayo of the West? Sansum President Explains Why Santa Barbara is on the Cutting Edge of Medicine
By Gwyn Lurie   |   May 27, 2021

When my husband and I moved our family from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara in search of a more congenial habitat, we were determined to hold on to one key big city perk — excellent medical care. So, we kept our L.A. doctors despite the time we knew it meant we’d spend in the car.  […]

Sansum Visiting Professor
By Lynda Millner   |   April 11, 2019

It was time once again for a visiting professor of surgery to visit Sansum Clinic for a week of teaching practicing Santa Barbara surgeons and physicians. Dr. W. Charles Conway, FACS is the new Visiting Professor of Surgery Program Administrator. Dr. Ron Latimer established the program in 2010 with the Department of Surgery and Sansum […]