by Karin Fleming | May 26, 2020
Testing is conducted to diagnose, understand and help prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2/novel coronavirus. We encourage people who test positive for the virus to quarantine and isolate themselves to prevent viral spread to others. This is particularly important with...
by Emma Dugas | May 26, 2020
By Emma Dugas, Vitals contributor BAY AREA, Calif. – It is second nature for people to visit their doctor’s office or an urgent care center when they’re sick — or are worried they might be. In early March doctors across the Sutter Bay Medical Foundation prepared for...
by Karin Fleming | May 26, 2020
Annie was stuck. Diagnosed with severe depression in her teens, she experienced days where mental illness slowed and dimmed her inner and outer worlds. “I couldn’t move or talk. The most I could do was twitch my fingers. And everything was like I was full of tar.” Now...
by Monique Binkley Smith | May 20, 2020
During tough times, the ability to bounce back from hardship comes in handy. But what if mental resiliency is not someone’s strong suit? Urmi Patel, PsyD Urmi Patel, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and director of clinical care for Sutter Mental Health and Addiction...
by Mike Stahl | May 20, 2020
Sutter physicians are moving into the clinical phase of recovery amid COVID-19, with in-person visits resuming with greater frequency. While fears over contracting the virus persist, Sutter is working hard to communicate to patients the many safety measures in place...
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...
by Karin Fleming | May 18, 2020
Testing is conducted to diagnose, understand and help prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2/novel coronavirus. We encourage people who test positive for the virus to quarantine and isolate themselves to prevent viral spread to others. This is particularly important with...
by Gary Zavoral | May 15, 2020
Sutter Amador Hospital’s Rural Residency Program this week received accreditation from ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education), the organization responsible for accrediting all graduate medical training programs for physicians in the United...
by Mike Stahl | May 15, 2020
SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Celebrity chef Guy Fieri’s bright smile and goatee may have been tucked behind a cloth mask while serving meals to medical staff at Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital, but make no mistake, his iconic bleached-out tips, tattooed arms, and jovial...
by Mike Stahl | May 15, 2020
SAN FRANCISCO – During 2020’s Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, front-line workers at Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) continue to give back. At the hospital’s Van Ness campus in San Francisco, healthcare workers, including doctors, nurses and...
