by Sutter Health | Apr 28, 2022
By Luke Pedersen, Vitals contributor Like many people his age, 71-year-old Bay Area resident Otis Griffin preferred seeing his doctors and other healthcare providers only through in-person visits. Today, Griffin is finding success in achieving many of his wellness...
by Angie Sheets | Apr 21, 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 final installment, we meet Alyce Glazer, who...
by Sutter Health | Apr 19, 2022
Telehealth has skyrocketed and with good reason – it creates greater access to convenient care – benefitting patients and clinicians. In a recent edition of Comstock’s, Dr. Albert Chan, vice president and chief of digital health at Sutter Health, shares how digital...
by Sutter Health | Apr 18, 2022
“By moving forward with today’s costly and disruptive strike, union leadership has made it clear they are willing to put politics above patients and the nurses they represent – despite the intervention of federal mediators and our willingness to bargain in good faith...
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...
