by Sutter Health | Jun 24, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Sutter Health is proud to announce that Rishi Sikka, M.D., was recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of this year’s 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives. The complete ranking is featured in the June 21 issue of Modern Healthcare, and profiles...
by Gary Zavoral | Jun 23, 2021
Research by one of the nation’s largest healthcare networks found that 100,000 women in Northern California haven’t had a mammogram in more than two years, and breast imaging specialists are concerned this will lead to diagnoses of more developed cancers that will be...
by Liz Madison | Jun 21, 2021
As society inches its way out into a post-pandemic world, what “lessons learned” will stick? What habits will return like they never left? In some ways, society could be seen at a crossroads, but are industries and services in a place where they can forge their own...
by Sutter Health | Jun 18, 2021
A message from Sarah Krevans, Sutter Health President & CEO Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, a date two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, when slaves in Texas were informed by Union soldiers that they had been freed, prompting...
by Gary Zavoral | Jun 17, 2021
As Northern California gears up for more hot days, with temperatures in many areas topping the century mark, emergency physicians are counseling the public to limit their time outdoors, drink plenty of water, apply sunscreen, wear light clothing and a wide-brimmed...
by Sutter Health | Jun 16, 2021
Dave L. Tran, M.D., is the department chair of Palliative Care and Support Services at Palo Alto Medical Foundation, part of the not-for-profit Sutter Health network. In honor of Father’s Day, we highlight Dr. Tran’s tribute to his dad, Dr. Hai Tran, a...
by Ashley Boarman | Jun 16, 2021
Dylan Leeder, 12, celebrated his final inpatient chemotherapy treatment this month with an enthusiastic jam session. The brave pre-teen, who was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), has received intermittent cancer treatments at Sutter’s...
by Sutter Health | Jun 15, 2021
Dineen Greer, M.D., is the program director for the Sutter Family Medicine Residency Program in Sacramento, part of the not-for-profit Sutter Health network. In honor of Juneteenth, we highlight Dr. Greer’s first-person narrative of what the observance means to...
by Ashley Boarman | Jun 12, 2021
Six years ago, 19-year-old Kayla Elias told her mom to take her to the hospital. “I felt like I was dying,” she remembers with a wince. Her memories from that time are “not fresh,” she says. “I was so weak.” Elias’ case escalated quickly. She was admitted to Sutter...
by Sutter Health | Jun 10, 2021
COVID-19 cases and hospitalization rates continue to decline across California. While the pandemic’s effects will be everlasting, this serves as an important moment while the state takes the incremental steps to reopen. Industries and services across the world...
