AHS Transfer Center Pairs Patients to the Right Care

The System Admission Transfer Center (SATC) at Alameda Health System (AHS) plays a key role in coordinating the timely and efficient placement of patients so they receive the right care at the right time in the right place.  In fall of 2022, the SATC implemented a new systemwide inpatient transfer process that reduces wait times [...]

2023-02-22T16:31:15+00:00February 14th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|

AHS Index – January, 2023

  AHS Index January 2023 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.   Number of consecutive atmospheric rivers to hit California since December 26, 2022: 8   Percent of annual [...]

2023-01-17T19:23:32+00:00January 17th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter|Tags: |

Food is a Basic Human Right – 2023 MLK Jr. Day of Service

For many at Alameda Health System (AHS), the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday has become more than a day off, it’s a “Day of Service”. Since 2018, AHS staff, providers, executives and their families have volunteered at the Alameda County Community Food Bank (ACCFB) Day of Service. AHS has long recognized that many of the [...]

2023-01-17T21:24:51+00:00January 17th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|

Improving the Patient Experience at Every Touchpoint

At Alameda Health System (AHS) we start each day with the privilege and responsibility of improving patients' lives by putting them at the center of everything we do. AHS is committed to putting the patient first by meeting their individual needs and delivering the best patient experience. “Patients come to us for care every day [...]

2023-01-17T21:25:21+00:00January 13th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|

Building a Better Parking Experience at WCHHC

The newly implemented parking program at the Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus (WCHHC) is improving the patient experience by removing previous barriers to convenient and easily accessible parking. Patients no longer have to worry about being late or risk missing appointments simply because they cannot find a parking space. “Helping patients find parking at Highland [...]

2023-01-17T21:25:26+00:00January 13th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|

Providing the Right Care at the Right Time

For Stephanie Oliva, surgery and procedural services coordinator (SPSC) in ophthalmology and neurosurgery at Highland Hospital, going the extra mile for Alameda Health System patients is the rule not the exception. In November 2022, she was instrumental in helping a patient experiencing homelessness from losing his eyesight. The patient who needed emergency surgery for a [...]

2023-01-17T21:25:32+00:00January 13th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|

Alameda Health System Resident Physician Omonivie Agboghidi is a Finalist on the TV Show Baking It!

It takes a village for a physician intern to compete in a baking show (pictured above Yuki Burton (left) and Dr. Omonivie Agboghidi, MPH, MD (right)). January 10, 2023 – Oakland, CA – How does a Highland Hospital resident intern manage to compete in a televised baking competition while completing her residency at the same [...]

2023-01-13T19:22:01+00:00January 10th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, AHS Press Releases, Featured|

Black Employee Affinity Network Provides Tools for a Healthy Smile

Last month the Alameda Health System’s (AHS) Black Employee Affinity Network teamed up with the AHS Dental program to provide dental kits to students at REACH Academy in Oakland.   The team provided nearly 150 dental kits that included 300 toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss along with tips on how to keep teeth healthy and referral [...]

2022-12-21T21:14:52+00:00December 20th, 2022|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|

AHS Supports the People of Ukraine

At Alameda Health System (AHS) the community we serve recently expanded by more than 6,000 miles to Ukraine with a donation of desperately needed antibiotics from Highland Hospital that would have otherwise gone unused.  “We were absolutely thrilled to be able to contribute to the relief efforts for Ukraine by donating   antibiotics that will directly [...]

2023-01-18T17:22:10+00:00December 20th, 2022|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|

Honor Walk Ceremony Gives a Hero’s Goodbye

Alameda Health System is proud to partner with Donor West Network to help save and heal lives through organ and tissue donation and is honored to have held its first Honor Walk at the Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus, Highland Intensive Care Unit (ICU).   An Honor Walk takes place when a donor patient, who is [...]

2022-12-21T21:15:38+00:00December 20th, 2022|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|