by Sutter Health | Apr 15, 2022
By Kelly Smits and Liz Madison, Vitals contributors COVID-19 continues to lay bare longstanding inequities in health and healthcare outcomes. The inequities have been widely documented for one common healthcare encounter: childbirth. And now, an innovation center...
by Emma Dugas | Apr 15, 2022
For National Volunteer Week (April 17-23), Vitals will introduce readers to a few of the thousands of Northern Californians who give their valuable time to help patients, visitors and staff at medical facilities. In this first installment, we meet Don Eberhard, who...
by Sutter Health | Apr 14, 2022
By Anita Creamer and Liz Madison, Vitals contributors Who can’t relate to receiving a bill in the mail you thought was already taken care of? Now imagine that bill is because your health insurance decided it was not going to pay for a needed medical service. But did...
by Sutter Health | Apr 11, 2022
SAN FRANCICO – California Pacific Medical Center Foundation has named Allison Duignan as Executive Director. Duignan joins the Foundation from CCS Fundraising—a strategic fundraising firm that partners with nonprofits for transformational change while embedding...
by Ashley Boarman | Apr 11, 2022
Sutter Health is sending its largest-ever shipment of medical supplies to Ukraine through humanitarian partner MedShare. The donation proves deeply personal for one healthcare worker at the organization who stepped up to help. All it took was a single email to get...
by Emma Dugas | Apr 5, 2022
Ask any of the nearly one in 10 Americans diagnosed with diabetes and they’ll say keeping their blood sugar controlled throughout the day is essential. Yet, it is often an elusive goal. That’s because even subtle changes in diet, activity or stress can cause glucose...
by Karin Fleming | Apr 4, 2022
Older men with low muscle mass are at significantly increased risk of hip and potentially other fractures, according to new research led by investigators at Sutter Health’s San Francisco Coordinating Center. This is in contrast to earlier studies that suggested muscle...
by Ashley Boarman | Apr 4, 2022
When it comes to some organ transplants, getting one from someone who’s a living person has its benefits. That’s why a Northern California transplant center is encouraging residents to register to become an organ donor this National Donate Life Month. “Living organ...
by Gary Zavoral | Apr 1, 2022
Longtime action-film hero Bruce Willis is stepping away from acting due to aphasia, his family reported this week, bringing to light a condition affecting about 180,000 Americans a year. Aphasia is a condition that affects your ability to communicate that is caused by...
by Ashley Boarman | Mar 28, 2022
People want to be and feel seen, and that’s no more apparent than in the types of movies that are resonating with audiences. Movie-goers are looking for much more diverse storylines – and storytellers – and Hollywood is finally listening. Perhaps...
