by Sutter Health | Apr 28, 2022
By Angie Sheets with contributions from Dr. Ron Cotterel and Vitals staff writers Do you reach for that third cup of coffee to get you through marathon zoom meetings or down several sodas or energy drinks to pull you through the afternoon slump? If so, it might be...
by Sutter Health | Apr 28, 2022
By Karin Fleming, Vitals contributor Every second counts to prevent long-term disability or death from a stroke. In 2019, Sutter patient and San Carlos, Calif., resident Ram Madduluri came to know the urgency of this ticking clock when his stroke was treated on a...
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...
