SUTTER HEALTH

A second Bay Area health provider may be forced to postpone vaccination appointments due to the ongoing inconsistent supply.

A second Bay Area health provider may have to postpone vaccination appointments due to the ongoing inconsistent supply. Ian Cull reports.

The White House says there will be enough supply for every adult by the end of May, but for right now, supply is still an issue.

Sutter Health says it is running out of vaccine, canceling 40,000 vaccination appointments across its system over the next week. It may have to cancel 50,000 more, it says, due to inconsistent supply from the state — all of them second shots for patients. Bob Redell reports.

The White House says there will be enough supply for every adult by the end of May, but for right now, supply is still an issue. Ian Cull reports.

Sutter Health called on Bay Area residents and businesses Monday to donate personal protective equipment to the organization’s frontline clinical staff as they care for dozens of novel coronavirus patients around the region.  Sutter Health is anticipating a shortage of protective equipment like N95 masks, surgical masks and protective glasses and goggles as coronavirus cases continue to surge. In light...

The city of Vallejo on Monday announced it has secured the funding for the construction and operation of a proposed Navigation Center for people experiencing homeless.

One of California’s largest hospital systems has reached an agreement to settle a massive class-action lawsuit over allegations that it abused its market power and has been overcharging patients for medical bills.

In honor of Take Your Dog to Work Day, officials at San Francisco’s new California Pacific Medical Center Van Ness Campus honored one of its employees on Friday, naming her “Chief Medical Paw-fficer.”

The Bay Area’s first baby of 2019 is apparently a girl born at NorthBay Medical Center in Fairfield.

Communication systems at Sutter Health recovered early Wednesday morning after a network outage that affected several Bay Area hospitals, officials reported.

The Sutter Health system is experiencing systemwide connectivity issues, affecting patient services at all of its 24 locations, some of which are in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A family of four with an income of more than $100K might be able to request help paying off a high hospital bill. In some cases, the bill can be erased completely. You’ve got to ask for Charity Care.

The ongoing disaster in Puerto Rico is now sending a medical shockwave across the rest of America. It has triggered a shortage of crucial medical supplies. Two months after Hurricane Maria, local hospitals are reporting short supplies of saline solution and IV bags — products commonly produced in Puerto Rico. Scott Budman reports.

Nurses and community members are rallying Sunday in Berkeley to protest Sutter Health’s proposed closure of Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, a Sutter Health affiliate.

NBC Bay Area Responds to a Mountain View woman whose simple checkup at the doctor’s office gave her weeks of billing headaches.

Family members of patients currently at St. Luke’s hospital gathered outside of San Francisco’s City Hall Tuesday asking officials not to close down the sub-acute care unit that will leave many patients with nowhere to go in the city.

The countdown that ushered in the new year also led up to the birth of what appears to be the Bay Area’s first babies of 2016.