To whom much is given, much is required, a philosophy Maria Hernandez, PhD, has chosen to live by. On Saturday, March 30, Hernandez, Alameda Health System (AHS) Board of Trustee member and President of Impact4Health, will be inducted into the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame. Hernandez has made it her life’s work to [...]

Currently, 7% of high risk patients consume 81% of the total health care costs. Programs like complex care management help improve patient health outcomes and reduce costs. Additional funds can be used to support and create more preventative care programs. What follows is an example of what happens when care coordination and collaboration between [...]

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors recently approved a proposal to designate Alameda Health System’s San Leandro and Alameda Hospital, the University of California Berkeley Student Health Center and the Oakland Behavioral Health Clinic as 5150 hold facilities. “Having these other facilities with the designation will reduce wait times for treatment, ensure people aren’t transferred [...]

Pam has been trying to stop abusing drugs and alcohol since 1988. Because of her battles with depression, stable housing and chronic stress, she has relapsed many times. Today, she has two years without using opiates, several months without alcohol, a place to live, and healthier ways to cope with depression due to Alameda [...]

Jocelyn Freeman Garrick, MD, MS, attending emergency medicine physician at Alameda Health System-Highland Hospital, believes having a diverse staff can help reduce health disparities in the patient population we serve. “We have patients from many different ethnic, racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. On any given day we treat people who are from South Asia, Eastern Europe, [...]

Tangerine Brigham, Chief Administrative Officer of Population Health, feels at home with the full steam ahead approach she sees from AHS staff. It’s the way she likes to get the job done. She has been tasked with helping AHS improve quality of care system-wide, lower costs and improve health outcomes among the patients AHS serves. [...]

It is impossible to be a patient-centered organization without the tools and resources to move patients successfully and safely through their hospitalization. This is why Denise Pitney, care management systems consultant, was recognized by her peers on the system transformation and re-engineering team for the pivotal role she played in developing standard work, workflow design [...]

Teaching all, part of Alameda Health System’s (AHS) mission statement was on full display this week as 44 Oakland Unified School District high school students graduated from the AHS HealthPATH program. At the graduation HealthPATH participants had a chance to share about their experience. “There wasn’t one defining moment in this program for me because [...]