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...
by Monique Binkley Smith | Jun 4, 2021
In difficult times, some people rise to meet the moment, selflessly dedicating themselves to doing all they can to help where needed. Across Northern California, many healthcare workers rose to meet the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic – and some went...
by Sutter Health | Jun 4, 2021
Vaccine disparities are some of the latest examples in the COVID-19 care divide. A fear of unexpected out-of-pocket costs—even though the vaccine is free—has been suggested as one of the most recent driving factors. As more revelations about health inequity come to...
by Karin Fleming | May 26, 2021
The decades that 73-year-old Toni DuBois West spent in the field of cancer care became more personal when she was unexpectedly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. “Hearing the diagnosis, I was shocked and emotional,” says Dubois West, a longtime resident of Galt,...
by Liz Madison | May 25, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has yielded some unexpected revelations. For instance, nursing school applications are up across the U.S. Whether driven by the practical or the personal—or a bit of both—candidates are pursuing a high-demand career unique in its combination of...
by Sutter Health | May 25, 2021
Meg Walker and Emma Dugas contributed to this story To say that Rachel Valdez is passionate about healthcare is almost an understatement. For more than a decade Valdez has worked her way up at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF)–from patient service...
