by Sutter Health | Dec 14, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— Longtime Sutter leader Rachael McKinney will step into the role of CEO of Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, effective Jan. 3, 2022. McKinney currently is the CEO of Sutter Davis Hospital in Davis, Calif., a position she has held since 2017. During...
by Sutter Health | Dec 12, 2021
Your health is vitally important to you … and to us. That’s why we launched this news site, Vitals, in December 2020 right in the middle of a pandemic. We wanted to give Northern Californians a venue for accurate, reliable health news, with stories written and...
by Sutter Health | Dec 10, 2021
On the heels of a recent announcement from the Biden administration to bolster the ranks of healthcare workers, the call also continues for a more diversified workforce. Nurses in particular can play a significant role given they “are often the first and most frequent...
by Gary Zavoral | Dec 8, 2021
While the world grapples with the newest COVID-19 variant – omicron – flu cases continue to rise. That’s why it’s important to get your flu shot as well as being vaccinated for COVID-19 and getting your booster when the time comes. That’s the recommendation of Dr....
by Sutter Health | Dec 8, 2021
In the photo above, NBC reporter Kate Snow, left, interviewed Dr. Phyllis Napoles and pancreatic cancer survivor Jim Ford, whose cancer was detected by a blood test that Sutter Health helped to study. By Gary Zavoral and Karin Fleming, Vitals contributors Jim Ford of...
by Emma Dugas | Dec 8, 2021
Cynthia Mendoza is comfortable with contradictions. The 40-year-old mother of three is shy with strangers but bold with family, friends and co-workers. Equal parts loyal and restless, she says being a medical assistant is the perfect job. No two days have been the...
by Karin Fleming | Dec 7, 2021
Few individuals with a chronic illness have the opportunity to experience medical research advances from the “inside.” Sutter patient Tom Schaaf, 63, joined a clinical trial to help pave the way for new knowledge of how best to treat multiple sclerosis, also called...
by Sutter Health | Dec 7, 2021
By Clayton Warren and Monique Binkley Smith, Vitals contributors Sam Harris spent the first three months of his life in a Bay Area neonatal intensive care unit undergoing surgery and treatment for one medical challenge after another. Born 16 weeks early at 24 weeks (a...
by Karin Fleming | Dec 6, 2021
“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul.” – Mahalia Jackson, African American gospel singer Although COVID-19 has changed how individuals and communities gather in places of worship and...
by Emma Dugas | Dec 2, 2021
Sarah Heyl has been walking a proverbial tightrope since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Heyl was three months pregnant with her first child when the new coronavirus was first making headlines. She spent her second and third trimester in a tight bubble to avoid catching...
