by Mike Stahl | Apr 1, 2020
Chalk it up to neighborly love in the time of coronavirus. This week, eight Sonoma residents showed their gratitude for frontline workers at Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital, part of Sutter Health’s integrated not-for-profit network of care, by creating colorful...
by Liz Madison | Apr 1, 2020
How can parents/guardians provide reassurance to children when a lot remains unknown? COVID-19 has changed our world in a short amount of time—and perhaps the course of history—but how can parents talk to kids about it now? Krystle Balduzzi, M.D., pediatrician at...
by Sutter Health | Mar 30, 2020
by The San Francisco Chronicle Telemedicine is “having a moment,” as Dr. Rahul Parikh at Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek Medical Center put it. As the COVID-19 outbreak escalates around the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care...
by Sutter Health | Mar 24, 2020
Sutter Health’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is committed to the physical and emotional well-being of employees and their families. Sutter recognizes many individuals are experiencing fear, emotional upset and other difficult feelings related to the COVID-19...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Mar 23, 2020
Like all hospitals and health systems during this unprecedented health emergency, Sutter Health anticipates a shortage of medical supplies, including personal protective equipment (PPE). “We are pursuing additional avenues to bolster and conserve our supplies,...
by Mike Stahl | Mar 21, 2020
By: Warren Browner, M.D., MPH and Stephen Lockhart, M.D., PhD As physicians, we want you to know why we are so concerned about the novel coronavirus/COVID-19. Some of you may have heard that it’s a minor inconvenience, like a bad cold. So far, that’s true for the...
by Liz Madison | Mar 18, 2020
Times of uncertainty—like the global COVID-19 pandemic—can spike anxiety in many people. Lives are upended and routines are erased. Schools are closed. Loved ones 65 years and above are homebound. Employees are working from home exclusively. And more importantly, as...
by Emma Dugas | Mar 17, 2020
By Emma Dugas, Vitals contributor Power cords, data cables and sanitation supplies topped Raymond Fellers long list. No, Fellers wasn’t preparing to isolate during the COVID-19 outbreak—quite the opposite—he was opening the first ever “car clinic” at the Palo Alto...
by Mike Stahl | Mar 17, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO – “Life is tough, but so are you.” This powerful message is hand painted onto a smooth, palm-sized stone that rests at Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center’s Van Ness Campus kindness rock garden in San Francisco. But it won’t be there for long....
by Monique Binkley Smith | Mar 16, 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California Governor Gavin Newsom, echoing recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is calling for the state’s bars, wineries and nightclubs to close and for restaurants to observe social distancing to help curb...
