To kick off Sutter Cancer Center’s quilt auction, several committee members, as well as Mary Pare, a registered nurse with the Sutter breast cancer navigator program, will talk about the comfort and value of quilts at 10 a.m. on Oct. 3.
Annual premium costs for employer-sponsored family health coverage grew far faster than workers’ wages and general inflation in 2011, putting even more pressure on workers and employers in a sluggish economy.
Nurses and health care workers are picketing today outside Sacramento-area Kaiser hospitals in support of health care workers and Bay Area nurses who are negotiating new contracts.
Nurses at Kaiser’s south Sacramento campus on Bruceville Road join…
Tammie Denyse heard the call to serve the church but didn’t know how to answer. Then she was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer and found her ministry.
The Rev. Tammie Denyse, holding a calendar featuring African American women breast cancer sur…
Hundreds of nurses walked off their jobs at Sacramento-area Kaiser Permanente hospitals Thursday in support of fellow union members protesting management-proposed benefit cuts.
Recovery room nurse Debra Rickford, center left, joins the picket line…
After dark, on a moonless Wednesday last week, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office received three 911 hang-up calls from within Desolation Wilderness, near Eagle Lake.
During a training exercise, Calstar pilot Mark Alley and flight nurse Beth Fr…
Days before Republican candidates began sparring over a vaccine to help prevent cervical cancer, a bill aimed at expanding access to the shot for California minors made its way to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk with little fanfare.
A top Kaiser official in Sacramento said her hospitals are prepared for the massive one-day nurses walkout set for today.
Nurses at Kaiser’s south Sacramento campus on Bruceville Road join in a one-day picket in support of healthcare workers who a…
Thousands of nurses at more than 30 Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Northern California will walk off the job Thursday in what union officials say will be the nation’s largest-ever nurses’ strike.
Young adults, long the group most likely to be uninsured, are gaining health coverage faster than expected since the 2010 health law began allowing parents to cover them as dependents on family policies.
