by Emma Dugas | Apr 15, 2020
By Emma Dugas, Vitals contributor Nurse Tawnya Gilbert is normally the picture of positivity: upbeat and energetic. But one day in late March, after an especially long shift and a particularly challenging week, she felt down. Like all of us Gilbert was concerned about...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Apr 14, 2020
Leif Hass, M.D. OAKLAND, Calif. — The world-wide pandemic is causing worry and uncertainty for many. Leif Hass, M.D., a family practitioner with Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation and a hospitalist at Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, is working to...
by Gary Zavoral | Apr 14, 2020
The pandemic started slowly in Sacramento. For weeks, residents of the city believed what was going around was just the usual flu that arrived every fall. But in just two months, thousands in the city had been infected and about 500 Sacramentans were dead. That...
by Mike Stahl | Apr 9, 2020
As millions across the nation shelter at home to help minimize the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, a group of individuals continues to step onto the front lines: our healthcare teams. Doctors, nurses, clinicians, hospital workers, pharmacists, transporters,...
by Karin Fleming | Apr 8, 2020
Not-for-profit Sutter Health Launches Clinical Trials with Gilead Sciences Sutter Health, together with health systems across Northern California has teamed up with Foster City-based Gilead Sciences on clinical trials for a promising treatment for COVID-19. The...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Apr 7, 2020
Imagine if you were ordered to shelter in place and your only option was a homeless shelter. How would you get care for your existing health conditions? For low-income or homeless people who live in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, the coronavirus outbreak is...
by Sutter Health | Apr 6, 2020
by The Mercury News SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Receiving sound medical advice is more important now than it’s ever been. Albert Chan, M.D., chief of digital patient experience at Sutter Health, shares how you can get advice and take action, all from your living room. View...
by Ashley Boarman | Apr 6, 2020
My fellow millennials: Like many of you, I like a good Sunday brunch and avocado toast, I can’t live without Netflix and Amazon Prime, and I scroll through Yelp and Eater much too often in search of that perfect new restaurant. Like many of you, I am a millennial. And...
by Gary Zavoral | Apr 3, 2020
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – If your child is in diapers or is being potty-trained, don’t poo-poo this advice. During this coronavirus pandemic, it may just save your life or that of a loved one. Paul Walsh, M.D., medical director of the Pediatric Emergency Department at...
by Liz Madison | Apr 3, 2020
Nothing beats the comfort of home. And while many of us are staying as safe as possible under our own roofs to help curb the spread of COVID-19, there are still those essential workers who head out the door to their jobs each day—including front line health care...
