by Sutter Health | Jul 10, 2026
New research aims to reconnect patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms before a silent condition becomes life-threatening. By Jenn Lonzer, Vitals contributor When 64-year-old Rogelio Hortizuela began preparing for a kidney transplant, imaging revealed an abdominal...
by Julia Jones | Jul 10, 2026
Last month Sutter welcomed 198 new resident physicians during its annual Graduate Medical Education orientation in Fairfield, Calif. The physicians are now beginning residency training across the system’s hospitals and clinics, with an additional 23 new fellows...
by Julia Jones | Jul 8, 2026
Every day, physicians ask clinical questions that could lead to better treatments, earlier diagnoses and improved outcomes for patients. To help turn those questions into potential discoveries and curiosity into potential cures, not-for-profit Sutter Health launched...
by Ashley Boarman | Jul 6, 2026
When Rick Herrera’s kidney function dropped to 12%, his wife didn’t wait. After 39 years of marriage, Stephanie Herrera stepped forward to donate one of her kidneys, helping him avoid dialysis and a years-long wait for a deceased donor. Rick Herrera had managed kidney...
by Julia Jones | Jul 1, 2026
More people are seeking mental healthcare, yet communities across California continue to face a shortage of trained psychiatrists. To help meet this growing need and improve access, Sutter Health plans to launch a new psychiatry physician residency program in the...
by Julia Jones | Jul 1, 2026
For patients experiencing a hemorrhagic stroke, one caused by a ruptured blood vessel in the brain, every minute matters. For decades, doctors have had few proven ways to stop the condition from worsening once symptoms begin. Now, Sutter Health researchers are helping...
by Jerome Hubbard | Jun 30, 2026
Sutter Health is expanding access to care in southern Santa Cruz County with the opening of its new Freedom Care Center, bringing primary and specialty services closer to patients in the Watsonville and Freedom communities. The new care center offers family medicine,...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Jun 26, 2026
As communities gather to celebrate America’s 250th birthday, fireworks will once again light up the sky. But behind the spectacle, health experts say the risks are real—and often overlooked. Each year, trauma teams and emergency departments across the country treat...
by Ashley Boarman | Jun 24, 2026
Photo caption: Dr. Eric Miller adjusts the image focus on the da Vinci 5 robot as he performs Sutter’s first fully robotic living-donor kidney transplant. | June 9, 2026 Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco has performed its first...
by Sutter Health | Jun 23, 2026
From Ethiopia to San Francisco, Dr. Gaelen Stanford-Moore is helping patients — and surgeons — see new possibilities for a condition long considered untreatable. By Jenn Lonzer, Vitals contributor On the first day of clinic in Ethiopia, patients lined up outside the...
