AHS Index – November, 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, outrage, and wonder. Number of turkeys spotted on the AHS Fairmont Rehabilitation and Wellness campus on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2023: 6* Percent of [...]

2024-03-27T20:40:16+00:00November 17th, 2023|Categories: AHS Index, AHS Newsletter, Featured, Latest Stories From AHS|

The Quirky Turkeys of the Fairmont Campus

Everyone who works at Alameda Health System’s Fairmont Rehabilitation and Wellness campus has had a run-in with them – the flocks of wild turkeys who roam the campus grounds. Some people love our quirky turkeys, others loath them. In honor of Thanksgiving, here’s a round-up of employee stories detailing mostly benign, often cute, occasionally terrifying [...]

2023-11-20T20:20:52+00:00November 17th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|Tags: , , |

Managing Holiday Stress

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 [...]

2023-11-22T18:05:26+00:00November 17th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|

Trusted Partners in Patient-Centered Care

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 [...]

2023-11-20T20:20:27+00:00November 17th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|

Building Better Lives for Patients with Mental Illness

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 [...]

Newly Launched Sexual Assault Response and Recovery Team (SARRT) Webpage

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 [...]

Welcome Home to South Shore

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 [...]

Opportunities Available in Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

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. [...]

2023-11-13T19:27:12+00:00November 13th, 2023|Categories: Featured|

Romoanetia Lofton: Automation enhances, but can’t replace, human connection in nursing

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, [...]

2023-11-01T21:59:50+00:00November 1st, 2023|Categories: Featured, Media Coverage of AHS|