by Karin Fleming | Aug 8, 2024
When Pat Sweeny was diagnosed with melanoma in 2014, she looked for treatments to help slow the progression of cancer that had spread to her lungs. However, she discovered few options existed. She asked her physician at Sutter’s California Pacific Medical Center...
by Liz Madison | Sep 7, 2023
What’s your favorite season? Chances are no one says flu. And rightfully so. The chills and fevers, the aches, the coughing and sneezing. The general ICK. As the perennial season nears, clinical experts are here to remind the public of their best defenses against...
by Sutter Health | Jan 20, 2023
By Karin Fleming, Gary Zavoral and Liz Madison, Vitals contributors When Sutter Health in 2003 launched its groundbreaking electronic intensive care unit, or eICU, no one knew that 17 years later it would help save the lives of countless Northern Californians when a...
by Sutter Health | Sep 29, 2022
The healthcare community has acknowledged how unconscious human bias by individual providers can impact care. Now research reveals how bias embedded within medical technology affects outcomes as well. A new study released today by Sutter Health, links medical...
by Sutter Health | May 10, 2022
By Anita Creamer and Monique Binkley Smith, Vitals Contributors For 34 years as an intensive care nurse, Mary Blanchard has served on the frontlines, caring for patients through some of the worst epidemics—and now a pandemic—in modern times. For many people, providing...
