Excitement in the Air as Seniors Get Their Vaccinations
Vitals staffers Ashley Boarman and Emma Dugas contributed to this story. JoAnn Yuen of San Francisco hasn’t seen her grandchildren since March. But that should change soon. Yuen, 82, was thrilled to be first in line to get her COVID-19 vaccination at a Sutter Health...
Healthcare System’s Goal: Fulfill MLK’s Dream of Health Equity
This opinion piece was written by Dr. Stephen Lockhart, the outgoing chief medical officer of Sutter Health. Dr. Lockhart has been instrumental in advancing health equity, not just in Northern California, but throughout the nation. By Stephen Lockhart, M.D., Ph.D.,...
Have COVID-19? Here’s When to Head to the ER
So you or your loved one were diagnosed with COVID-19. You’re following doctor’s orders, isolating at home and taking precautions to protect other people from infection. But how do you know when it’s time to seek emergency medical attention for COVID-19, or time to...
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ICU Doc on Vaccine Side Effects: She’d Do It Again
A Northern California ICU physician who was one of the first in the region to get both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine documented her vaccination journey and concluded that, while she experienced some temporary flu-like symptoms, she would do it again and encourages...
Healthcare Staff Now Have Extra Layer of Protection
California is smashing daily records for COVID-19 cases as the post-holiday surge comes to a head. The difference now is that a vaccine exists. Vaccine deployment continues across Sutter Health. The plans developed by its healthcare leaders to vaccinate nurses,...
Hospitals Stand Up Flexible Spaces to Handle Influx
Tents Act as New Front Doors to Help with COVID Care For years, many hospitals stored large, camping-style tents and put them up occasionally as part of emergency drills or surge events. These tents were meant to be a quick, temporary solution to help triage and...
Veteran Appreciates Chance to Be Heard About Disability
This is part of a series celebrating those individuals who define themselves by what they can do, not what they can’t do. Sutter Health Assistant General Counsel Ed Fabi serves as co-lead of the Military & Veterans Inclusion Resource Group. He retired in May...
Dive Deeper
Going Back to Basics as Hospitals Reduce C-sections
Dr. Katarina Lanner-Cusin has been passionate about babies since she was a child herself. Now, after more than 25 years as an obstetrician, Lanner-Cusin has teamed up with nurses, midwives, doulas and others to rethink childbirth in hospitals across Northern...
COVID ‘Long-Hauler’ Still in Fog, Off Work. He’s Not Alone
By Kathy Engle Yevgeny, a 37-year-old software engineer, suffered for two weeks with the novel coronavirus, and now, nearly three months later, he is free of COVID-19. But he is far from being recovered. Yevgeny is still off work, suffering from ongoing “brain...
Healthcare Systems’ Plea: Do Your Part to Avoid Surge
As COVID-19 infections continue to surge across the state, California’s leading healthcare systems are offering a prescription to residents to help slow the spread of the virus: Stay home for the holidays. At a Dec. 22 virtual statewide joint press conference,...
‘He Has Diabetes,’ Not ‘He Is Diabetic’: Why That Matters
Diabetes care teams across Sutter Health are using person-first language to help remove stigma and refocus attention on the patient, not the disease.
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