by Gary Zavoral | Dec 29, 2020
By Kathy Engle Yevgeny, a 37-year-old software engineer, suffered for two weeks with the novel coronavirus, and now, nearly three months later, he is free of COVID-19. But he is far from being recovered. Yevgeny is still off work, suffering from ongoing “brain fog,”...
by Gary Zavoral | Dec 21, 2020
This is part of a series celebrating those individuals who define themselves by what they can do, not what they can’t do. Sutter Health Assistant General Counsel Ed Fabi serves as co-lead of the Military & Veterans Inclusion Resource Group. He retired in May 2020...
by Gary Zavoral | Sep 24, 2020
Nurse-Midwives Continue to Care for Moms During Pregnancy and Birth Many workers have been sidelined by the pandemic, but for nurse-midwives, life — quite literally — goes on. “People still need us, pandemic or not,” says Jessica Nagel, a certified nurse-midwife for...
by Gary Zavoral | Aug 20, 2020
With wildfire smoke settling in every Northern California community, and with COVID-19 still a major health concern, Dr. William Isenberg, Sutter Health’s Chief Quality & Safety Officer, has two words of advice on the best way to avoid the associated health risks:...
by Gary Zavoral | Jul 2, 2020
When Sutter Health’s Memorial Hospital Los Banos had a critically ill patient test positive for COVID-19, there wasn’t an ICU room for her. The small community hospital’s four ICU beds are located in the same large room separated by curtains, and this patient...
