Morning Edition (NPR) Features The AHS COVID-19 Memory Archive

Alameda Health System CEO James Jackson spoke to Morning Edition (NPR/KQED) about The AHS COVID-19 Memory Archive. Listen to the clip to learn more about this archive of short oral history interviews, memories, and materials that reflect AHS’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, as described by the frontline workers, physicians, nurses, administrators, telephone operators, chaplains, [...]

The Oaklandside Features AHS’s COVID-19 Memory Archive

Launched the day the national COVID emergency was lifted, the multimedia project chronicles the experiences of health care workers during the pandemic’s toughest days. Originally published on The Oaklandside. Anh Ho, an EKG technician at the Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus in East Oakland, has not forgotten what it felt like to contract COVID-19 for [...]

2023-05-26T08:07:55+00:00May 16th, 2023|Categories: Media Coverage of AHS|Tags: , |

Alameda Health System Publishes the AHS COVID-19 Memory Archive

The archive features short oral history interviews with the health care workers who were on the frontline of COVID-19 in Alameda County, California. May 11, 2023 – Oakland, CA – Alameda Health System (AHS) has published an AHS COVID-19 Memory Archive to commemorate the end of the COVID-19 state of emergency on May 11, 2023. Earlier in [...]

2023-05-11T18:47:15+00:00May 11th, 2023|Categories: AHS Press Releases, Featured|Tags: |

Providing Exceptional Care to our Most Vulnerable Residents

At Alameda Health System (AHS) the dedicated staff at our four skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are passionately dedicated to providing the highest quality care and service to our most vulnerable populations every day and during a pandemic is no exception. “I’m incredibly proud of our teams who were able to navigate the rapidly evolving COVID-19 [...]

2023-05-09T15:12:05+00:00May 8th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|

AHS Index – Stroke Awareness Month | May, 2023

AHS Index May 2023 | Stroke Awareness Month 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.   Percent of deaths in Alameda County that are attributable to stroke: 6 Stroke death [...]

2023-05-08T23:10:43+00:00May 8th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured, Latest Stories From AHS|Tags: |

Volunteering at Dig Deep Farms

It was a great day to support our community and celebrate Earth Day this year! This past month for Earth Day, twenty members of the AHS family joined CEO James Jackson at a special volunteer event at Dig Deep Farms, a community supported agriculture farm in San Leandro, for staff to help with seeding , [...]

2023-05-09T15:12:27+00:00May 8th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|

Celebrating Our Health Care Heroes

On National Hospital and Nurses Week Alameda Health System (AHS) celebrates the commitment and dedication of our health care heroes who consistently demonstrate excellence in all they do and this year we had the opportunity to talk to several AHS employees who were recently awarded the STAR award for going above and beyond the call [...]

2023-05-09T15:12:52+00:00May 8th, 2023|Categories: AHS Newsletter, Featured|