Shouldering the Load: RN’s Surgery and Road to Healing

Shouldering the Load: RN’s Surgery and Road to Healing

For nearly four decades, Diana Bastin has been a dedicated registered nurse, spending much of her career in the operating room. Working at Sutter Health’s Santa Cruz Maternity and Surgery Center, she has assisted in countless procedures, ensuring the best outcomes for...
Navigating Congenital Heart Defects as an Adult

Navigating Congenital Heart Defects as an Adult

Nearly 2 million adults in the U.S. live with congenital heart defects or CHDs. These patients survived the repair of structural abnormalities in their hearts while infants or children and they require lifelong attention from a cardiology specialist. While only 20% of...
Fighting ALS: New Therapy Has Potential to Change Lives

Fighting ALS: New Therapy Has Potential to Change Lives

Sutter enrolls first patient in cutting-edge gene therapy clinical trial What if you couldn’t hug your child, speak a full sentence or lift your morning coffee mug? That’s the reality for thousands living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, a disease that...