by Sutter Health | Jun 24, 2022
Statement from Dr. William Isenberg, Sutter Health Chief Medical Officer “We remain dedicated to providing access to safe, personal and equitable healthcare. At Sutter Health, we are deeply committed to the personal relationship between a patient and her healthcare...
by Karin Fleming | Jun 24, 2022
Loss, grief and other struggles that life brings can challenge us all. But for individuals with substance use disorders, these bumps in the road may prompt severe relapse causing additional harm and potentially serious health concerns. Last year, nearly 50,000 people...
by Gary Zavoral | Jun 24, 2022
The first two physicians in the federally-supported Family Medicine Rural Residency Program in Amador County are beginning their two-year residencies this week at the Sutter Family Medicine Continuity Clinic in Jackson, along with rotations at Sutter Amador Hospital....
by Ashley Boarman | Jun 24, 2022
The time has arrived for the United States’ arguably cutest cohorts – “the littles” ages 6 months to 4 years – to get vaccinated against COVID-19. As our nation’s final eligible group to receive the go-ahead, the announcement comes as a relief for many parents and...
by Sutter Health | Jun 24, 2022
By Melissa Fuson and Liz Madison, Vitals contributors Being hospitalized is not necessarily familiar territory for most people. The experience can be confusing. Keeping track of important details is harder, too, since patients simply don’t feel well. But a...
by Ashley Boarman | Jun 21, 2022
Clinical trials are the very foundation of novel drug and device discoveries. They also have a complicated history of racial, social and economic inequities, as illustrated most recently by research stating Black women with metastatic breast cancer do not have the...
by Gary Zavoral | Jun 19, 2022
Jonathan Judy-del Rosario of Alameda always wanted to be a father, but as a gay man he didn’t think it would be possible. Then he met Kurt del Rosario, and he wanted kids, too. “We listed with an adoption agency in August 2012 and started our journey,” Jonathan says....
by Gary Zavoral | Jun 17, 2022
William Bramhill, 11, likes to wrestle and named his practice wrestling dummy T.O.D. “T.O.D. means ‘The Other Dude,’ like, ‘You should have seen The Other Dude,’ “ he explains. So, when Sutter Surgical Hospital in Yuba City held a contest at schools throughout the...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Jun 16, 2022
Editor’s Note: David Glover has a lot to celebrate this Father’s Day. David and his wife Tia have two baby girls –Billie born last year and Daisy born in April –who are now flourishing thanks to the staff at Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit in Berkeley who cared for the...
by Ashley Boarman | Jun 15, 2022
“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” … The 1990s advertising catchphrase from an older American in distress was and still is the butt of many jokes. However, falls are no laughing matter for all of us as we age. Among older adults, falls are the No. 1 cause...
