Over the past four years, more than 200 people have died annually of overdoses in Oakland. Yet just across the Bay, San Francisco’s drug epidemic is deadlier. Although Oakland has more people per capita living below the poverty line and nearly double the number of people per capita living in tents and vehicles, San Francisco's [...]
Former Cambodian refugee Sambo Ly leads medical interpretation for safety-net patients In 1979, during the final year of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime, Sambo Ly escaped to a refugee camp in Thailand as a teenager. Fleeing one of the most brutal military regimes in the world, Ly and her loved ones endured countless horrors: witnessing disappearances, forcible separations [...]
If you are planning to receive your flu, RSV, or COVID-19 vaccine, now is the time! Alameda Health System saw an uptick in COVID-19 cases in August and September, driven by the new “Stratus” variant. Next comes respiratory virus season. “The swell of seasonal COVID-19 cases appears to have peaked in Alameda County and is [...]
Sambo Ly, Alameda Health System’s (AHS’) manager of interpreter services, has won the Icon Award from CBS News Bay Area (KPIX) in recognition of her decades of service to refugees and community members in Alameda County. The Icon Award highlights people who have made a significant and impactful contribution to their community. KPIX reporter [...]
Skilled nursing facilities, often referred to as nursing homes, provide long-term, medically necessary treatment to residents of all ages. The majority of nursing home residents are seniors who need a higher level of care than they can receive at home, but do not need acute care in a hospital setting. Others are people of all [...]
Alameda Health System (AHS) CEO James Jackson spoke with the East Bay Times about the budget cuts AHS faces in a recently published, comprehensive article. “The vast majority of who we see is on some form of government care, whether it’s Medi-Cal or Medicare,” Jackson said. “They’re not going to just disappear. What we believe [...]
Alameda resident Denny Goodman was out on a fishing boat with his neighbors on July 4, 2022, hoping to catch a perfect view of fireworks over the San Francisco Bay. It was the happiest time of his life, he told his friends. He’d decided to live aboard a boat in Alameda after eight years [...]
Loretta Medellin didn’t think much of the small blister that formed on her foot as she danced the night away at her daughter’s wedding. The high-school Spanish teacher and mom of two assumed it would heal in a few days. But it didn’t. That small blister would turn things upside down for Medellin, who soon [...]
Alameda Health System (AHS) has received $77 million in funding to build and expand behavioral health facilities at San Leandro Hospital and St. Rose Hospital. AHS will use the funding to build a 10-bed inpatient medical detox and psychiatric care unit at San Leandro Hospital and two 20-bed units dedicated to geriatric psychiatric patients at [...]
ABC News Channel 7 celebrated Mother’s Day with a special feature highlighting the AHS Lullaby Project. The AHS Lullaby Project partners local musicians with Centering Pregnancy patients to write and perform original lullabies for their new babies. Singing lullabies is not just great for child-parent bonding, but can also help improve parents’ mental health [...]
