With the holiday season quickly approaching it is important we take time to care for our own health. For some, the holidays can be quite stressful and even exhausting. However, there are steps we can take to make the season less stressful and more enjoyable. “Remember we often have a great deal of choice about [...]
Advancing health equity is not only a core value of the Alameda Health System (AHS), it’s also a collective passion for our community health outreach workers (CHWs) who play a critical role in the health and well-being of our highest-risk patients and underserved communities. “I know it’s my life’s purpose to make a difference in [...]
Ensuring that every patient has equal opportunity to achieve optimal mental health and wellbeing is the cornerstone of Alameda Health System’s (AHS) outpatient behavioral health services (OBHS) at the Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus (WCHHC) and Fairmont Rehabilitation and Wellness. “The collective goal of our OBHS staff is to create a compassionate, equitable and culturally [...]
For more than 38 years, the Sexual Assault Response and Recovery Team (SARRT) has been serving Alameda Health System patients at the Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus (WCHHC). SARRT is a unique hospital and clinic-based program that addresses both domestic violence (DV) and sexual assault (SA). Being the sole program of its kind in [...]
The sentiment of ‘Welcome Home’ has been strongly felt by both patients and staff at South Shore this month, as both were happy to return to a newly-renovated facility. Last year, aging pipes with backflow issues and breaks were discovered which needed upgrading, and so the facility underwent an emergency transfer to Fairmont Rehabilitation and [...]
We are currently hiring a couple of Radiology Technologists in our Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at our Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus! Our Cardiac Cath Lab/Interventional suite is growing our services at the premiere Level I Trauma Center in Alameda County. We provide interventional cardiology, radiology, and neuro-IR services, and are expanding into electrophysiology and thrombectomy. [...]
Alameda Health System’s (AHS) Romoanetia Lofton discusses how nurses can use automation as an enhancement to patient care while building heartfelt connections with patients in a new article in Becker’s Hospital Review. “Best practice for nurses is to use technology to reinforce or supplement information provided. Nothing can replace the impact of a healing hand, [...]
Join us for the AHS Farmers Market now being hosted at two locations: the Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus and San Leandro Hospital. Support local BIPOC farmers, purchase fresh produce and prepared foods, and don’t forget to bring a friend!
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Jeff Herrala, the 2023 ACEP-EMRA National Clinical Pathologic Conference Competition Resident Runner Up! This is an annual national competition that began last November with EM residency programs from across the country submitting mystery cases. Over 120 programs entered cases into the competition with the top 72 selected for presentations [...]
Alameda Health System (AHS) nurse Maria Mendoza-Sanchez's life was upended when she was deported to Mexico in 2017 – but she did not lose her job at AHS. That's because her colleagues donated enough PTO to Mendoza-Sanchez to accommodate her absence. At the same time, AHS leadership and the late Senator Dianne Feinstein stepped in [...]
