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...
by Liz Madison | Oct 16, 2020
Pilot marks first expansion of Landed’s down payment program and homebuyer education services into healthcare sector . SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Today, Landed and Sutter Health announced a pilot program to expand Landed’s homeownership assistance program to the healthcare...
by Sutter Health | Oct 6, 2020
Chung S, Martinez MC, Frosch DL, Jones VG, Chan AS. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2020;22(6):e16451, View the study ABSTRACT: Background: Cancellations and rescheduling of doctor’s appointments are common. An automated rescheduling system has the...
by Sutter Health | Oct 2, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic and Northern California wildfires have added additional layers of stress to our lives. At Sutter Health, we appreciate and honor the commitment of our staff who care for patients, communities and one another everyday, and especially during such a...
by Ashley Boarman | Oct 2, 2020
When Zarmina and Haris Anjum learned they would be having triplets this spring, one of the first things they did was buy an SUV. “We planned for one, then it was twins, and then two weeks later it was three. It was wonderful and not at all expected,” said Haris. “We...
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 Sutter Health | Sep 14, 2020
A message from John Boyd, PsyD, Sutter Health’s CEO of Mental Health Services, during Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. When I learned the news that I had lost someone to suicide, my first thought was, “I should have known.” As a long-time mental health...
by Sutter Health | Sep 10, 2020
by HealthTech Many people call them “bots,” and the term can have a negative connotation. But the technology — also known as asynchronous communication, artificial intelligence assistants or chatbots — is being used by some medical professionals for an important...
by Sutter Health | Sep 10, 2020
by Sacramento Magazine Telemedicine isn’t new, but it is gaining new uses—and new participants—in the time of COVID-19. It’s safe to say COVID-19 has upended all aspects of our society. But perhaps the one pushed to reinvent itself with warp speed is the field of...
by Sutter Health | Sep 9, 2020
COVID-19 is bringing new relevance to Sutter’s longstanding electronic intensive care units (eICUs) and to telemedicine. The integrated healthcare network’s two eICU hubs, one in San Francisco and one in Sacramento, enable it to provide hospitalized critical care...
