News Updates

• Robert Cooley speaks to students at a school rally about becoming the first person in the Sacramento region to receive the HeartMate II ventricular assist device. Drs. George Fehrenbacher and John Chin, cardiologists with the Sutter Heart & Vascular Institute, also attended the rally ... Read the Story
• Hatian boy recovering from heart surgery, meets with his Sutter pediatric heart surgeon, Teimour Nasirov, M.D. ... Watch the Video
• Haitian boy who will have heart surgery at Sutter Memorial Hospital ... Watch the Video
• Robert Cooley, 75, as the region's first recipient of a newly approved device that doctors say will revolutionize heart failure treatment ... Read the Story
• Sutter Roseville Medical Center has been designated a regional Heart Attack Center, allowing emergency medical technicians to bypass other hospitals if a patient in South Placer and neighboring counties is having a severe heart attack and is in need of emergency angioplasty or stenting ... Read the Story
• Kelley Jaeger-Jackson, R.N., the nursing director of the Heart Transplant Program, is quoted in an article about the recent destination therapy certification of the Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento VAD Program ... Read the Story
• Sutter Memorial gets OK for heart treatment. The program for heart patients at Sutter Memorial Hospital got a boost late last month, gaining certification to implant heart pumps as a permanent therapy for patients who do not qualify for a transplant ... Read the Story

Events

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  Join the Sutter Heart & Vascular Institute’s Heart Walk Team for the 2010 American Heart Association Start! Heart Walk.
  
  Date: Saturday, September 18, 2010
  Place: William Land Park
  4000 S. Land Park Dr.
  Sacramento, CA 95822
  Time: 8:00 AM Program / 9:00 AM Walk
  
  

  To sign up for our team or for more information, click here.

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  Date: Monday, October 18, 2010
  Place: Hilton Sacramento – Arden West
  Time: 7:00 AM – 4:30 PM
  Register or learn more.