Preparation Puts Doctor on Path to the Olympics
Dr. Richard Gayle (Left), with fellow U.S. men’s Olympic soccer team physician, photographed at Stade de Marseille stadium, Marseille, France. Photos in this article are courtesy of Andrea Vilchez / U.S. Soccer and Dr. Gayle. Today the U.S. men’s national soccer team...
Rookie and Seasoned Nurses Team Up in the Operating Room
By Nicole Young, Vitals contributor Healthcare is often viewed as the ultimate team sport where nurses are valued players. A winning approach supports both patients and doctors, and it must include the best training. When an experienced operating room nurse explains...
Doctor-to-Be Strives to Support Spanish-Speaking Community
By Debbie Ritenour, Vitals contributor Priscilla Covarrubias didn’t just grow up in a bicultural home; she grew up in a bicultural community. Covarrubias is from Salinas, an agricultural community along the Central Coast with a Hispanic population of 79%. Her parents...
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Modesto Native Finds Purpose, Joy through Volunteering
By Angela Borchert, Vitals contributor Porter Scoffield is a beloved member of Sutter Gould Medical Foundation’s volunteer team. He’s also the first person with Down syndrome to volunteer there. The Americans with Disabilities Act, also known as the ADA, is...
Riveting Video: How Teen from China Was Saved When Heart Failed
At left, teenage university student Catherine Cai lies in a Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento cardiovascular ICU bed hooked up to a number of machines to keep her alive. Just a few weeks later, right, she was fully recovered, and she and her parents returned to...
Career of a Lifetime: 50 Years of Service
By Jessica Springgay Frantzich, Vitals contributor When 19-year-old Luis Suarez started work as a part-time janitor at Peninsula Hospital back in 1973, he felt grateful he’d found a job where he could work flexible hours while continuing his education. He could not...
Power of Progress: One Doctor’s Lessons from South Central LA
Sutter Health and the Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group are working to broaden pathways to support a more diverse healthcare workforce, with the hope that the future pool of clinicians will better reflect the diversity of the patients they serve. As part of this...
Dive Deeper
Program Connects Domestic Violence Survivors with Healthcare
TeleCARE Program Improves Access to Care, Resources through Video Visits by Monique Binkley Smith and Catlin Valles, Vitals contributors The distraught woman arrived at an Antioch, Calif. hospital emergency department with nothing: Her car, wallet and cell phone...
Sutter Transplant Housing Guests Upgrade TVs
Photo: Leanne Westphal (left) stands with her granddaughter Charlotte Moore (middle) and daughter Hannah Moore (right). By Kathy Engle, Vitals contributor Home. A four-letter word that evokes feelings of comfort, familiarity and safety. Now imagine being far away...
Folsom Builder Helping Bring Health Services Closer to Home
Price Walker stands at the site of the future Sutter Care Complex, across East Bidwell Street from the upscale Palladio commercial center. For 40 straight days, Price Walker and his wife traveled more than an hour a day so she could receive oncology services in...
Off-Duty Nurse Performs Lifesaving CPR on San Francisco Sidewalk
Photo: Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation Registered Nurse Rachel Heller visits the exact spot outside of Mel's Kitchen where she performed lifesaving CPR on a collapsed man during her lunch break in June of 2023. By Clayton Warren, Vitals contributor In April 2023,...
Closer Look
Healthcare Employees Beam with ‘Pride’
Swimmer Makes Splash After Amputation
Sutter and SF State Train Future Nurses Together
NICU Miracle: Baby Seiori Heads Home
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