For more than 150 years Alameda Health System (AHS) has been committed to the health and well-being of our patients and underserved community. Not only does AHS open its doors to the most vulnerable patients, but our efforts to support a healthier community extends far beyond the walls of our hospitals and wellness centers. By [...]
AHS Index December 2022 The AHS Index is a new way to look at data that illuminates a snapshot of our world today. It is intended to highlight health inequities and spark conversation, debate, and wonder. Increase in global acts of social benevolence including donating, volunteering, and helping strangers since 2019, according to [...]
The renaming is in honor of the late supervisor’s dedication to Alameda County health services and health care for underserved communities. Dec. 16, 2022 – Oakland, CA – Family, friends and colleagues of the late Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan gathered at a ceremony celebrating the renaming of The Highland Hospital Campus in her honor [...]
Oakland, CA – December 8, 2022 – Alameda Health System (AHS) received the 2022 Quality Leader Awards (QLA) Top Honor for the BElovedBIRTH Black Centering program, which is administered in partnership with the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency’s Public Health Department (ACPHD). The QLA Awards recognize one top honorary and five additional public health [...]
Alameda Health System’s Palliative Care department and Nursing Education have partnered once again to train nurses on palliative care concepts of pain management, symptom management, spiritual care, cultural humility, communication and caring for patients at end of life. The training is being relaunched after being paused due to COVID restrictions. “We are thrilled to bring [...]
Flu season has almost always been a predictable part of every winter, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed things. The 2021-2022 flu season was mild when compared to pre-pandemic years, largely due in part to COVID-19 prevention measures. However, health experts are predicting this 2022-2023 flu season will be severe and getting a flu shot will [...]
Alameda Health System’s (AHS) Food and Nutrition Services held a successful “Soctober” sock drive to support shelters and organizations that provide services to the unhoused members of our community. Socks are the most needed, but the least donated pieces of clothing, especially during the cold winter season. During the month of October, sock donations were [...]
At Alameda Health System’s (AHS) Eastmont Wellness Center the interdisciplinary chronic care team is helping patients who are both at-risk or currently living with diabetes to take their first steps toward better health by empowering them with education resources, tools and support. “I find it most rewarding when our patients develop the necessary skills needed [...]
At Alameda Health System (AHS) our employees are our greatest strength going above and beyond every day to provide quality care and improve the health and well-being of our patients and the communities we serve. In support of AHS’s commitment to cultivate a workplace culture where people feel valued and recognized, the STAR (Service Team [...]
During National Native American Heritage Month, Alameda Health System (AHS) celebrates the rich and diverse cultures and important contributions of Native Americans who originally settled here in the East Bay communities where we serve all. It is especially important to pay tribute to the proud Chochenyo Ohlone (Ohlone) people who first inhabited the land that [...]
