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...
The New Class of Resident Physicians Has Arrived
Last month Sutter welcomed 198 new resident physicians during its annual Graduate Medical Education orientation in Fairfield, Calif. The physicians are now beginning residency training across the system's hospitals and clinics, with an additional 23 new fellows set to...
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The Next Big Ideas in Patient Care Start Here
Every day, physicians ask clinical questions that could lead to better treatments, earlier diagnoses and improved outcomes for patients. To help turn those questions into potential discoveries and curiosity into potential cures, not-for-profit Sutter Health...
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...
Dive Deeper
Turning Data Into Second Chances
New research aims to reconnect patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms before a silent condition becomes life-threatening. By Jenn Lonzer, Vitals contributor When 64-year-old Rogelio Hortizuela began preparing for a kidney transplant, imaging revealed an...
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...
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