Highland Hospital CAO Mark Brown was featured on local news for a TV segment that highlighted how AHS staff went above and beyond to reunite an unidentified patient with his family. Hospital staff reached out to the media for help identifying the mystery patient, who was unconscious when he was admitted and had no identification. [...]
Highland Hospital surgeon Dr. Timothy Browder was featured on a TV news segment about saving former Oakland Police Capt. Ersie Joyner's life. Joyner had been shot 22 times in a robbery gone-wrong.
From The Military War Zone to The CoronaVirus Front Line One of our own was recently featured by Good Morning America by a patient that she had cared for in the past. Fourteen years ago, Nurse Debra Muhl, was better recognized as Lieutenant Colonel Deborah Muhl. She was a highly decorative Air [...]
Thanksgiving has come back around giving us another opportunity to reflect and celebrate all of the reasons we should be grateful. This year I’m grateful for my family, my health, for our patients who entrust their care in our hands and for all of the passionate and dedicated people who work at Alameda Health System. [...]
Originally Published in Oakland Magazine October 2019 By Erika Mailman With palpable charm and humor, Highland Hospital’s Dr. Donna White Carey easily earns parents’ trust for that most important of jobs: their child’s health. But she’s got her eye on even stouter duties, like galvanizing the community around the disturbing statistic that in Alameda County, African-American [...]
Originally published on LyftBusiness.com Challenge Patient flow at Alameda Health System’s Highland Hospital was chronically slow because many patients lacked transportation home or to the next stage of their care. The problem contributed to extremely long emergency room wait times and overcapacity. Solution Royal Care Connect provides reliable, on-demand transportation for [...]
Originally published in Modern HealthCare September 27, 2019 By, STEVEN ROSS JOHNSON As Congress approved another delay to $4 billion in planned cuts to Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital payments, hospitals are gearing up to rally support for a longer-term solution. The latest continuing resolution would postpone the funding reduction until Nov. 21 and awaits President Donald [...]
Originally published in the East Bay Times August 22, 2019 By, Kevin Scott-Smith, MD Opinion: Encourage more African-American moms to breastfeed Reduce baby’s chances of obesity and diabetes; lower mom’s chances of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, heart disease The health care industry moves with ardent enthusiasm to data and evidence-based care and applauds itself [...]
Originally posted on the American Hospital Association website. Jun 12, 2019 - by Talia Schmidt As a chemistry student at Emory University, AHA board member Delvecchio Finley worked part time at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta in a range of areas — from parking deck security to medical records to admitting patients to the emergency department [...]
Shifts in fiscal landscape creates threat of severe cuts to health care treatments Originally published in The Mercury News By Joe DeVries, Alameda Health System Board President | June 12, 2019 Across the state, public hospitals and health systems operate under highly challenging financial circumstances and are faced with the herculean task of developing financial [...]
