Highland Hospital Has a New Coffee Shop

The café, named Morning Rounds, will serve locally roasted Red Bay Coffee. Nov. 3, 2022, Oakland, CA— The newest place to get a great cup of coffee in Oakland is Highland Hospital. The hospital is celebrating the grand opening of Morning Rounds, its on-premise café which serves locally roasted Red Bay Coffee and espresso drinks, premium teas, [...]

2022-11-03T22:02:48+00:00November 3rd, 2022|Categories: AHS Press Releases, Featured|

Alameda Hospital Offers Free Flu Shots

Alameda Health System physicians strongly recommend a flu shot this year. Nov. 1, 2022, Alameda, CA— Alameda Health System's Alameda Hospital will offer free influenza (flu) vaccines on Wednesday, Nov. 2 and Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022 to community members who are three-years-old and older. The free community clinics will be set up in the Alameda [...]

2022-11-01T20:27:56+00:00November 1st, 2022|Categories: AHS Press Releases, Featured|

AHS Achieves 2022 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Recognition

Alameda Health System (AHS) earned the 2022 College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) Digital Health Most Wired Level 8 recognition for acute and ambulatory. The CHIME Digital Health Most Wired program conducts an annual survey to assess how effectively health care organizations apply core and advanced technologies into their clinical and business programs to [...]

2022-11-03T22:06:57+00:00October 27th, 2022|Categories: Featured, Latest Stories From AHS|

For better outcomes, health systems invest in quality and safety workforce.

By Mari Devereaux for Modern Health Care. Before its leaders began putting resources toward revamping its quality program, Alameda Health System was in a tough spot. In 2020, the San Francisco Bay Area public health system received low hospital safety grades from the Leapfrog Group and five condition-level findings from the Joint Commission accrediting body, [...]

2022-10-07T16:07:32+00:00October 7th, 2022|Categories: Featured, Media Coverage of AHS|

The Evolution of Alameda Health System’s Equity Journey, and the Support of Peers

For the last year, Alameda Health System has gathered with 12 other California public health care systems to share strategies for dismantling structural racism in health care. The program is called the Racial Equity Community of Practice (CoP). It is a first-of-its-kind, designed specifically for public health care systems in partnership with the National Equity [...]

2022-10-06T19:22:58+00:00October 5th, 2022|Categories: Featured, Media Coverage of AHS|Tags: , , , , , |

‘We should not accept this’: Highland hospital leaders demand action to curb gun violence.

Highland Hospital saw about twice as many gunshot wounds in 2022 and 2021 than it did the previous two years. AHS CEO James Jackson and Chief of Trauma Dr. Timothy Browder were on KTVU Fox 2 to sound the alarm. “This level of violence is new, and I won’t accept it as a new norm,” [...]

2022-10-04T18:39:56+00:00October 4th, 2022|Categories: Featured, Media Coverage of AHS|Tags: , , , |

‘I’m a son of Oakland’: AHS CEO James Jackson in a news conference addressing gun violence.

AHS CEO James Jackson called a press conference following a shooting at Oakland’s Rudsdale Newcomer High School that wounded six people. "We’ve seen almost a doubling of the violent crimes here at our facility. So something has changed. I’m a son of Oakland. I grew up in Oakland... I’m calling on community leaders, and I’m [...]

2022-10-04T19:53:22+00:00October 1st, 2022|Categories: Featured, Media Coverage of AHS|Tags: , |

Alameda Health System Reports Increased Gun Violence

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Alameda Health System Reports Increased Gun Violence The East Bay public health system is sounding the alarm as incidents of gunshot wounds continue to rise. Sep. 29, 2022, Oakland, CA— Alameda Health System’s Highland Hospital received three victims of the gun violence that broke out in Oakland on Wednesday afternoon, Sep. 28. [...]

2022-09-29T16:33:59+00:00September 29th, 2022|Categories: AHS Press Releases, Featured|Tags: , |

AHS Index – September, 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, outrage and wonder. Hottest Bay Area temperature during last month’s Sep. 1 – 8 heatwave: 1161 Hottest local temperature ever recorded in the [...]

2022-09-20T16:39:05+00:00September 20th, 2022|Categories: Featured|