by Stephanie Breitbart | Jun 5, 2023
It’s one of the most common surgeries performed in the United States, and a procedure — when not medically necessary – that public health efforts are focused on reducing. For some mothers, cesarean deliveries (C-sections) can be the safest or only way to deliver a...
by Sutter Health | Jun 5, 2023
SACRAMENTO, Calif., – Sutter Health has named Todd Smith, M.D., to the newly created role of senior vice president and chief physician executive. He will officially start in this new role on June 12. Dr. Smith will serve on Sutter Health’s executive leadership team...
by Sutter Health | Jun 2, 2023
Robot-assisted Surgery Offers Advanced Care & the Comforts of Home for Local Patients By Lara Azar, Vitals contributor The newest member of the Sutter Davis Hospital surgery team was born an expert—keenly observant, uncommonly adept and coolly collected under...
by Sutter Health | May 30, 2023
By Kathy Engle, Vitals contributor Jerry Enos helped students discover and nurture their talent during his four-decade career teaching theater design in higher education. But perhaps the most important aid he offered young artists was a safe space. By listening and...
by Sutter Health | May 30, 2023
Nineteen facilities within Sutter Health’s integrated, not-for-profit network earned the designation of 2022-2023 LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leaders from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, publishers of the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI). This two-year designation...
by Gary Zavoral | May 25, 2023
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, left, listens intently as Sutter Roseville Medical Center trauma nurse and educator Kate Carleton, right, teaches a Rocklin Unified School District third-grade class how to control a bleed. Kate Carleton saw a...
by rosemvv@sutterhealth.org | May 24, 2023
Persistent tingling in her arms and legs, difficulty putting on her shoes and trouble urinating: these were symptoms Sutter patient Pamela Swint began experiencing in 2019. At first, like loose pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, these symptoms seemed indecipherable on their...
by Sutter Health | May 22, 2023
The Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH)—the gold standard of healthcare simulation education credentialing programs—has recognized the Sutter Health University Simulation Center program with full accreditation, citing several of the SHU center’s processes and...
by Karin Fleming | May 18, 2023
In the mid-1700s, Scottish physician-researcher Dr. James Lind encouraged a group of sailors to join an experiment in which they ate oranges and lemons. Turns out the vitamin C-rich fruit helped prevent the onset of scurvy—an illness caused by severe vitamin C...
by Ashley Boarman | May 18, 2023
Photo: Norio Tajima, a technical specialist, performs a COVID-19 test in Novato Community Hospital’s new onsite lab. Novato Community Hospital’s 20-year-old clinical laboratory got a “glow up” this month. The newly opened facility puts efficiency and testing...
