by Sutter Health | May 7, 2024
By Stephanie Breitbart and Liz Madison, Vitals contributors Picture some of life’s most vulnerable moments. A baby, only seconds old, drawing in their first breaths and bellowing out tiny cries. The grimaces and grunts of someone who, despite a traumatic fall,...
by Sutter Health | May 1, 2024
Sutter Davis Hospital was identified as one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals for 2024, according to an independent quality analysis performed by Premier Inc. for Fortune magazine. Sutter Davis was the only California facility to be named in the “Small Community...
by Sutter Health | May 1, 2024
SACRAMENTO, Calif.– Three Sutter hospital received an “A” Hospital Safety Grade this week from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit focused on patient safety. An additional seven hospital campuses in Sutter’s integrated not-for-profit system earned a “B” grade for...
by Sutter Health | Apr 30, 2024
By Nicole Young, Vitals contributor In early 2021, frequent upset stomach and troublesome trips to the bathroom prompted Zack Kramer to seek medical attention. “Many things were happening at the same time, COVID, a stressful job, but it was becoming a bigger deal,” he...
by Sutter Health | Apr 28, 2024
By Angela Borchert and Liz Madison, Vitals contributors Hearing a cancer diagnosis, in any language, can feel disorienting for the person on the receiving end. Helen Laffin, a 58-year-old grandmother from Folsom, Calif., learned she had stage 3 ovarian cancer in...