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...
by Gary Zavoral | Jun 26, 2020
Temperatures are rising in Northern California, and so are confirmed cases of COVID-19. How do you keep safe from both? Stay home, says an emergency medicine physician with Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento. “Our recommendation for the heat is stay inside and...
by Gary Zavoral | May 19, 2020
Laurie Deuschel of Rocklin received news during the COVID-19 crisis that breast cancer runs in her family, but during the first two months of the pandemic, mammograms were considered elective scans and weren’t being performed. The first week they became available...
