Newsweek Ranks Alameda Hospital Skilled Nursing Facilities Among America’s Best Nursing Homes

Alameda Hospital Skilled Nursing Facilities are ranked #1 in Alameda County and 14th in California, among nursing homes with more than 150 beds. That’s according to Newsweek’s 2025 ranking of America’s Best Nursing Homes. Alameda Hospital Skilled Nursing Facilities include Park Bridge Rehabilitation and Wellness, Alameda Hospital Sub-Acute Unit, and South Shore Rehabilitation and Wellness [...]

More young people are being diagnosed with breast cancer

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.   Yearly increase in breast cancer rates over the last decade among young women in their 20s, a surprising uptick for a [...]

How lullabies are improving health care for Black women and their babies

Alameda Health System (AHS) was featured in the East Bay Times for an innovative program that pairs expecting moms with local musicians to write and sing original lullabies for their babies.   This is the second round of The AHS Lullaby Project, which is a partnership with Carnegie Hall and Noe Music. Patients in Beloved Birth [...]

Upgrading Alameda Hospital to meet seismic requirements

In response to the Northridge earthquake, California lawmakers passed a law that requires hospitals to seismically upgrade their existing buildings or replace them to ensure safety by 2030. Buildings that don’t meet the earthquake standards must cease operations. Alameda Health System (AHS) is committed to continuing to provide critical health care services at Alameda [...]

2025-04-24T21:57:35+00:00September 14th, 2024|Categories: Featured, Latest Stories From AHS|Tags: , , |

Did you know Spanish is the happiest language? Plus more facts for Hispanic Heritage 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, outrage, and wonder.  Percent of Alameda County residents who are Latino, the largest ethnic and racial minority in the county: 23.4%  Difference in life [...]

A wedding at the Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus

Santos and Aleyda were married in their hospital room at Alameda Health System’s (AHS) Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus (WCHHC) on Saturday, August 10th. Their son, friends, nurses and hospital staff attended. AHS Chaplain Reverand Betty Clark officiated the ceremony. Santos and Aleyda hoped to host a large wedding and party this Summer, but [...]

2024-08-16T23:10:25+00:00August 16th, 2024|Categories: Featured, Latest Stories From AHS|Tags: , , |

Alameda County residents urgently need more dental care. Here is what AHS is doing about it 

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.  Percent of Medi-Cal eligible adults living in Alameda County who did not go to the dentist in 2016: 80%  Number of [...]

9 Bay Area Pride Month facts you’ve never heard before

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.  Year that Charley Parkhurst, a fearless stagecoach driver who shepherded gold between Oakland and San Jose on his six-horse stagecoach during the [...]

Thank you, AHS staff. It’s more than just a job — it’s a calling

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 outpatient clinic visits Alameda Health System (AHS) employees delivered in 2023: 360,451 Babies delivered: 1,457 Surgeries performed: 8,811 Patients served: [...]

AHS adds group singing and lullaby composition to perinatal care

Alameda Health System has partnered with Carnegie Hall and Noe Music to offer the Lullaby Project to perinatal patients enrolled in its Centering Pregnancy program. The Lullaby Project pairs professional musicians with expecting families. Together, they compose and sing personalized lullabies in English and Spanish for their babies.  “It’s amazing when you can experience [...]