Celebrating World AIDS Day 2023

Our HIV service provider teams, Adult Immunology Clinic and the ED HIV Linkage team joined our community partners at the Boathouse at Lake Merritt to honor the work do ne in the East Bay to end the HIV epidemic. Our very own Cinthya Mujica-Pinto was honored with the Empathy and Kindness Award!

2023-12-18T22:06:04+00:00December 1st, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|Tags: , |

Adopt -A-Family This Holiday Season

Alameda Health System (AHS) is once again launching its Adopt-A-Family program in hopes of bringing holiday cheer to patients. Adopt-A-Family is coordinated by AHS Health Advocates in partnership with the Alameda Health System Foundation (AHSF). Every year AHS staff select a family from a list of AHS patients and provide them with holiday gift cards. [...]

2023-11-20T20:24:22+00:00November 17th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|

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 [...]

Celebrating Physician Assistant Week October 6-12

Join us in celebrating the work, dedication and compassionate health care of our team of Physician Assistants at Alameda Health System! AHS currently employs 60+ PAs in multiple specialties including ER, Orthopedics, General Surgery, Neurosurgery, Pain Clinic, Department of Maternal and Child Health, Adult Medicine, Cardiology, Urology, Palliative Care, Pulmonology, Addiction Medicine and Gastroenterology. PAs [...]

2023-10-17T22:05:34+00:00October 11th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter|