Sambo Ly, Alameda Health System’s manager of interpreter services, was featured in People Magazine for her remarkable experience surviving a brutal genocide and war in Cambodia.   Ly was a teenager when the Khmer Rouge genocide began. She experienced many horrors during that time.   “I still remember, to this day, the image of the water along the way with corpses floating in the river, abandoned cars and structures,” [...]

Shari Johnson, Alameda Health System’s (AHS’s) chief revenue cycle officer, was featured on Becker’s Healthcare Podcast last week.   Johnson spoke with Andrew Katz from Becker’s Healthcare Podcast about artificial intelligence, innovation in revenue cycle, and how AHS will continue to serve its community despite the sweeping cuts to safety-net services signed into law by H.R.1.  “How do we, arm in arm, work [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]