The ‘FASTEST’ Response Could Change the Future of Stroke Care
For patients experiencing a hemorrhagic stroke, one caused by a ruptured blood vessel in the brain, every minute matters. For decades, doctors have had few proven ways to stop the condition from worsening once symptoms begin. Now, Sutter Health researchers are helping...
Auburn Couple Reclaims Life After Living Donor Kidney Transplant
When Rick Herrera’s kidney function dropped to 12%, his wife didn’t wait. After 39 years of marriage, Stephanie Herrera stepped forward to donate one of her kidneys, helping him avoid dialysis and a years-long wait for a deceased donor. Rick Herrera had managed kidney...
Growing Tomorrow’s Psychiatrists to Meet Today’s Demand
More people are seeking mental healthcare, yet communities across California continue to face a shortage of trained psychiatrists. To help meet this growing need and improve access, Sutter Health plans to launch a new psychiatry physician residency program in the...
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Changing What’s Possible for Patients with Facial Paralysis
From Ethiopia to San Francisco, Dr. Gaelen Stanford-Moore is helping patients — and surgeons — see new possibilities for a condition long considered untreatable. By Jenn Lonzer, Vitals contributor On the first day of clinic in Ethiopia, patients lined up outside...
Girls Flag Football Scores Touchdown in Oakland
More than 100 young athletes took the field at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland for the second annual Girls Flag Football Camp, hosted by Sutter Health, Pro Football Hall of Famer Steve Young and the Forever Young Foundation. The camp, which also featured Pro...
Firefighters Join Planning for New Neurosciences Complex
As construction crews shape Sutter Health’s future Advanced Neurosciences Complex at CPMC’s Mission Bernal campus, the San Francisco Fire Department is also getting to know the building from the inside out. Before the five-story, 129,000-square-foot facility opens...
Training Hits the Road with New Mobile Simulation Lab
Care teams across Sutter Health will soon have easier access to hands-on clinical training thanks to a new mobile simulation lab — a 44-foot lab on wheels that will travel to hospitals and clinics across the not-for-profit, integrated health system. Believed to be...
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Sister’s Gift Represents Transplant First at Sutter Health
Photo caption: Dr. Eric Miller adjusts the image focus on the da Vinci 5 robot as he performs Sutter's first fully robotic living-donor kidney transplant. | June 9, 2026 Sutter's California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco has performed its first fully...
The Little-known Obstacle Threatening Medication Management
By Marycon Young, Vitals contributor When patients move between hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and home care settings, keeping medications and treatment plans aligned can become increasingly complex. Research has shown that medication-related problems...
After Brain Cancer, He Paints What Gratitude Looks Like
Vincent Serritella, 50 – an artist, filmmaker, engineer and former Pixar animator – woke on Dec. 5 to flashing bursts of light in the far left edge of his vision. He assumed it was fatigue. “I just thought I was working too much and needed a weekend to reset,” he...
Training the Next Generation of Doctors Behind the Scan
Before doctors can treat a stroke, remove a tumor or stop internal bleeding, a medical professional must find it first. Radiologists help patients get answers faster, helping physicians diagnose cancer, heart disease, traumatic injuries and countless other medical...
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