She Now Sees Clearly Thanks to Donated Eye Surgery

She Now Sees Clearly Thanks to Donated Eye Surgery

By Melissa Fuson, Vitals contributor For years, 54-year-old Maria Hernandez lived her life looking through a fogged-up window. Her terrible eyesight meant she couldn’t read, couldn’t drive a car and even had a hard time recognizing friends’ and relatives’ faces....
My Message to a Young LGBTQ+ Person

My Message to a Young LGBTQ+ Person

During Pride month, John Boyd, Psy, D., Sutter Health’s CEO of Mental Health and Addiction Care, shares a message with every young LGBTQ+ person who is in need of guidance and support. “You are wonderfully made, you are whole and an incredible human...
Date With Destiny: Mom, Dad & Baby Share Same Birthday

Date With Destiny: Mom, Dad & Baby Share Same Birthday

Castro Valley, Calif. couple welcomes baby with their same birth date.  By Cat Valles, Vitals contributor Well, this certainly makes planning a birthday much easier. Sutter’s Eden Medical Center Birth Center delivered a special birthday present to Castro Valley,...
Radiologists Plead: Don’t Put Off Mammograms Any Longer

Radiologists Plead: Don’t Put Off Mammograms Any Longer

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...
How Hybrid Models in Healthcare Can Work

How Hybrid Models in Healthcare Can Work

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...
Celebrating Juneteenth

Celebrating Juneteenth

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...