by Monique Binkley Smith | Dec 24, 2020
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,...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Dec 14, 2020
Since the beginning of the pandemic, an integrated health network of hospitals has reduced the stays for COVID-19 patients from an average of 20 days to just eight days today, thanks to a coordinated response deployed by the healthcare system. Sutter Health’s 24...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Dec 7, 2020
At a critical time as more people experience food insecurity due to the pandemic, a first-of-its-kind project in Northern California is safely and quickly diverting hospital food that otherwise would go to waste and getting it into the mouths of the hungry. Since...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Dec 7, 2020
The Carol Ann Read Breast Health Center at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, part of Sutter Health’s not-for-profit integrated network of care, has launched a new mobile mammography van to provide convenient access to screening mammography services for underserved...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Dec 7, 2020
Little is known about COVID-19 in pregnancy and particularly whether it disproportionately impacts minorities. Now researchers with Northern California-based Sutter Health have launched a study to help shed light on the prevalence of COVID-19 in patients about to give...
