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Sutter Lakeside Hospital will have a new leader next month. Sutter Lakeside Hospital will have a new leader next month. Sutter Health announced Monday that Tara Overmiller has been named the hospital's new chief executive officer and will take over November 16. She'll lead the Lake County hospital and its operations. Sutter Lakeside is one of the county's key healthcare providers, making the leadership change significant for patients and healthcare workers throughout the area. * By Roe/ * October 6, 2026 * By Roe/ * October 5, 2026

YoloCares launches basketball grief program for male youths. YoloCares recently rolled out a new bereavement program aimed at reaching the underserved demographic of young males. The California-based hospice's GriefBall initiative included a two-day basketball camp for bereaved boys and young men. YoloCares' Center for Loss & Hope partnered with the Sutter Health Foundation and the Junior Kings youth basketball camp, which is affiliated with the NBA team Sacramento Kings. The new bereavement care model is designed to address mental health challenges and unresolved grief in male youths who are often less likely to seek support, according to Chris Erdman, director of mission advancement of the Center for Loss & Hope at YoloCares. "How do we reach grieving boys and young men who may never walk into a conventional support group?" Erdman told Hospice News in an email. "Something GriefBall can offer [is that] a team can become a place where young people learn to carry one another through good times as well as bad. Basketball gave us a way to engage boys and young men through their bodies and through something familiar and meaningful to them." Bereaved males between the ages of 7 and 25 were eligible to participate in the GriefBall program. Each cohort was organized into different age-appropriate activities and conversations. YoloCares' bereavement professionals guided the grief discussions, while staff and volunteers at the organization helped facilitate activities. Participants in the youth bereavement program learned basketball skills, received grief education and heard stories of loss from athletes. Junior Kings coaches led the basketball activities. The grief initiative also featured opportunities for teens and young adults to mentor younger basketball players. The program focuses on building emotional resilience, healthy coping skills and lasting peer connections. Younger males are more likely to express unresolved grief through anger, isolation, depression or violence, Erdman said. YoloCares has sought ways to better reach this demographic in new, innovative ways. Peer connection and shared activities are keys to building trust and emotionally safe spaces for youths to grieve, according to Erdman. YoloCares launched the GriefBall program as part of a larger bereavement initiative. The hospice provider is seeking to expand the basketball grief program beyond two days into a "continuing pathway for connection and support," Erdman said. YoloCares plans to develop a similar program for young women and girls. "GriefBall is part of a larger effort to build bridges into grief that people often carry in isolation," Erdman said. "We've learned that young people need communities where loss can be spoken about without embarrassment and where strength does not mean carrying everything alone. That kind of community isn't always easy to find." Established in 1979, YoloCares provides hospice, palliative care and advance care planning across six counties in northern California. The nonprofit provides bereavement services through its Center for Loss & Hope. The hospice provider also operates an adult day program at its facility, Galileo Place. The organization's Center for Caregiving Support is designed to help address families' practical, emotional and medical needs. Additionally, YoloCares opened a residential hospice shelter for homeless populations in 2024, branded as Joshua's House. The hospice's Center for Loss & Hope measures the quality of its bereavement programs through participants' feedback across four domains. These areas include connection and belonging, understanding of grief, emotional regulation and resilience. YoloCares' new youth bereavement program is a unique model, Erdman stated. Partnering with a regional health system and a professional basketball team fueled an innovative approach to grief support. "What feels most useful for other hospices is the approach," Erdman told Hospice News. "Begin with the people you're struggling to reach, find a setting that matters to them, build relationships with partners who belong in that setting and ask what kind of growth the experience makes possible. In partnerships like this, hospice brings grief expertise, coaches and athletes bring movement and teamwork [and] a health system can help make the work possible and connect it across communities." Companies featured in this article: Holly Vossel, senior reporter for Hospice News, is a word nerd, journalist and hunter of facts with reporting roots sprouting in 2006. She is also a family caregiver many times over, dog lover, avid reader, writer, hiker, camper, kayaker and a former competitive roller derby player. A Ravenclaw at heart, friends have described her as a mentor, spicy, fiercely loving, a Dark Lilith and a Luna Lovely, among other things. She is passionate about writing with an impactful purpose, and developed an interest in healthcare coverage in 2015.

New chapter of care Opens in pleasanton. Sutter Opens New Urgent Care in San Francisco's Mission Bay Sep 28, 2026 Sutter Health New clinic brings same-day care to one of San Francisco's fastest-growing neighborhoods SAN FRANCISCO - Residents, workers and visitors in Mission Bay now have a new option for same-day medical care with the opening of Sutter Health's newest urgent care clinic near Oracle Park. Located at 240 King St., the 2,156-square-foot clinic has four exam rooms and portable X-ray equipment and is open seven days a week, 365 days a year. California State Sen. Scott Wiener, who represents Senate District 11, with Christina Oh, Sutter Health chief operating officer, during a recent visit to Sutter Health. "We are so excited to open our second urgent care in San Francisco," said Christina Oh, Sutter Health's chief operating officer. "People need care where they live and work, and this gives them another way to get care quickly, close to where they are." The new clinic builds on Sutter's longstanding presence in the neighborhood. "This has been a Sutter location for some time, and we saw an opportunity to build on that presence by bringing urgent care to this part of the city," said Liz Armstrong, CEO of Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation - South. "It's a way to better meet the needs of the people who live, work and spend time here." Urgent care provides same-day evaluation and treatment for many common illnesses and injuries, including infections, sprains and minor fractures. The clinic also offers lab services and can connect patients to primary care, specialists, imaging and other services across Sutter's network when additional care is needed. "At Sutter, we recognize that patients need access to a range of services across multiple care settings," said Dr. Jonathan Lee, chair of the Primary Care Service Line for Sutter West Bay Medical Group. "Urgent care is an important part of that continuum." The Mission Bay clinic is Sutter's second urgent care location in San Francisco and part of a broader expansion of same-day care across Northern California. Sutter currently operates more than 40 urgent care centers and plans to grow that network to more than 50 locations by 2030. Mission Bay has grown into a major hub for technology, education and sports, with Oracle Park and surrounding neighborhoods bringing residents, workers and visitors together throughout the year. "When someone gets sick or injured, they want a convenient option close by," said Carolin Delker, vice president of Sutter's Urgent Care Service Line. "This location gives people in Mission Bay another place to turn when they need care that can't wait for a regular appointment." The clinic was developed through a collaboration among Sutter's clinical, operations, technology and facility planning teams, along with construction and trade partners. "This project took a lot of people working together to bring it to life," said Kate Baust, senior director of operations for Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation - South. "We're excited to open the doors and start caring for patients in this community." Health topics.