by Sutter Health | Feb 25, 2022
SACRAMENTO, Calif., —Today, not-for-profit integrated healthcare system Sutter Health announced its participation in Medicare Direct Contracting. This innovative, value-based payment model with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is designed to...
by Sutter Health | Feb 24, 2022
By Marycon Young and Liz Madison, Vitals contributors A teenager’s bedroom—once a safe haven for young people—transformed in the time of COVID. Rather than serve as sanctuary, bedrooms morphed for many into lonely places of isolation. A recent photo essay in The New...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Feb 23, 2022
Timing is everything when it comes to maintaining good health. That’s according to Dr. Rita Kwan-Feinberg, MPH, FACS, a Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation surgeon who specializes in breast cancer and serves as co-director of the Carol Ann Read Breast Health Center at...
by Karin Fleming | Feb 22, 2022
An at-home study to help determine whether osteoporosis drug treatments may prevent fractures in older patients with Parkinson’s disease was designed and has been launched in Northern California. Older patients with Parkinson’s disease and parkinsonism also have a...
by Ashley Boarman | Feb 16, 2022
Dr. Robert Mayle, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon in Novato, Calif., has a new partner — a robot. A new knee replacement robot has taken up residence in an operating suite at Novato Community Hospital, and Dr. Mayle says the robot doesn’t replace him...
by Sutter Health | Feb 16, 2022
By Karin Fleming and Ashley Boarman, Vitals contributors Ovarian cancer has long been thought to be a stealth disease, with many women discovering they have it only after the illness reaches a more serious stage. Now a new review of ovarian cancer records shows more...
by Sutter Health | Feb 15, 2022
By Emma Dugas and Liz Madison, Vitals contributors Lessons Learned Dr. Mercedes Kwiatkowski offers three main themes when helping kids through a positive COVID test • Preparation and education • Age-appropriate communication and information-sharing • Good modeling of...
by Emma Dugas | Feb 14, 2022
Does it sometimes feel like there are butterflies in your chest? Does your heart race or skip a beat? If it’s not your crush making your heart go pitter-pat, it could be a common heart condition called atrial fibrillation or AFib for short. This Valentine’s Day,...
by Sutter Health | Feb 11, 2022
By Dr. Antoinette Rose and Emma Dugas, Vitals contributors “Artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing healthcare,” says Dr. Wendi Knapp, a hospitalist with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Santa Cruz, Calif. “With these tools we can turn...
by Karin Fleming | Feb 10, 2022
A Santa Rosa woman is the first in San Francisco to receive this new treatment for brain cancer A diagnosis of cancer is shocking for most people. But a diagnosis of brain cancer may carry additional fear when one considers these facts: no other cancer is as...
