How This ‘Most Innovative Company’ Implements Ideas

How This ‘Most Innovative Company’ Implements Ideas

If there’s one thing that innovative companies value more than bold ideas, it’s the experience to put them into practice. Industry analysts agree and have called ‘adoption muscle’ the new, must-have strategic advantage for healthcare organizations. Experience also...
Female Cardiologists Are Reshaping Heart Care

Female Cardiologists Are Reshaping Heart Care

Growing number of women physicians in Santa Rosa helps shift a male-dominated field Women have become an increasingly visible force across medicine, stepping into leadership roles and shaping care in hospitals and clinics nationwide. But cardiology has long remained...
Match Day Brings a New Class of Resident Physicians

Match Day Brings a New Class of Resident Physicians

Today, medical students across the country learned where they will begin residency training. Each year, Match Day pairs graduating medical students with nationwide residency programs. This year, Sutter Health will welcome 221 physicians into residency and fellowship...
Why Rethinking Brain Health Brings New Hope

Why Rethinking Brain Health Brings New Hope

Research shows brain health is influenced by everyday factors such as physical activity, mental health, sleep and social connection long before dementia symptoms appear – a reality shaping the new Brain Health Pathways program at Sutter Health’s Ray Dolby Brain Health...
East Bay Hospital Earns Mental Health Care Recognition

East Bay Hospital Earns Mental Health Care Recognition

By Clayton Warren, Vitals contributor An East Bay hospital has earned a major recognition for mental health care and now sits among a select group of behavioral health programs nationwide. Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center’s adult mental health units at...
Grateful Patient Helps Launch Pancreatic Program

Grateful Patient Helps Launch Pancreatic Program

Catching Cancer Before It Starts: How One Grateful Patient Helped Launch a Pancreatic Program at CPMC by Rachel Lee, Vitals contributor  Abdominal pain had followed Ronald Zien for most of his adult life. Over several decades, the retired Oakland police officer...
How Single‑Port Robotic Surgery Is Changing Care

How Single‑Port Robotic Surgery Is Changing Care

Above: Dr. Andrew Tam successfully performed the first urologic surgeries using the da Vinci Single-Port robotic system at Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. Instead of multiple ports placed several centimeters apart, the SP platform allows surgeons to...