by Angie Sheets | Nov 11, 2020
A blog by James Conforti, COO Sutter Health, and John Boyd, PsyD, CEO Sutter Health Mental Health & Addiction Care On Veterans Day, we honor all of the incredible people, those living and those who are not, for their service to our country. While we should honor...
by Liz Madison | Nov 11, 2020
Bristol Falls, a swimming hole in Ayers’ hometown As a kid growing up in Bristol, Vermont, Lee Ayers already had a strong love for his country building in his tiny chest. The American Dream evoked feelings of opportunity and pride. Over time, those feelings...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Nov 10, 2020
Like many women who receive a diagnosis of breast cancer, Michelle Goldsmith, was overwhelmed when her biopsy showed breast cancer. She had so many questions about her diagnosis and knew that difficult decisions lay ahead. She knew she needed to make a battery of...
by Emma Dugas | Nov 6, 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) has recognized six Sutter Medical Network (SMN) organizations for achieving top marks on quality and/or patient experience measures while effectively managing cost of care for Commercial HMO patients in 2019....
by Monique Binkley Smith | Nov 2, 2020
Pandemic underscores value of nursing and midwifery excellence Sutter Health has announced its first-ever Nurse of the Year Award winners at a virtual Nursing Symposium attended by hundreds of nurses and midwives from across Northern California. In addition to...
by Liz Madison | Oct 27, 2020
The Hippocratic Oath has a special significance in the field of medicine. While its meaning has evolved over centuries with modernized text, its core truth remains: safety. Hospitals across Sutter Health’s integrated network recognize safer care is fundamental to...
by Ashley Boarman | Oct 22, 2020
Callie Cowart, a full-time board-certified music therapist at Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) in San Francisco uses music to heal. Cowart recently offered her therapy sessions to an older patient undergoing care at CPMC’s Mission Bernal Campus Acute...
by Sutter Health | Oct 19, 2020
by Healthcare Dive The future of alternate payment models, importance of health equity and biggest question marks hanging over the fast-changing telehealth industry were among topics headlining the virtual HLTH conference last week. Along with a flurry of digital...
by Sutter Health | Oct 16, 2020
by Healthcare IT News There’s no doubt that telehealth has proven to be an integral tool to keeping healthcare accessible amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Telehealth has continued to grow and has continued to really set the pace” for digital innovation,...
by Emma Dugas | Oct 16, 2020
By Emma Dugas, Vitals contributor Catherine Martin D.O., MPH has spent seven years and $400,000 training to be a doctor, but time and money don’t reflect the full price of becoming a physician. “I’ve made countless sacrifices, put my life on hold really, so I could...
