Local Girl Scout troop donates to new moms at Alameda Health System

A Girl Scout troop from Hayward and Castro Valley visited Alameda Health System’s (AHS) Family Birthing Center Monday to donate baby supplies to new parents.   Scouts Zoe Davis and Kira Jones dropped off the baskets, which included Girl Scout Cookies, to two moms who had recently given birth.   In return, new mom and AHS [...]

2025-03-14T16:41:21+00:00March 12th, 2025|Categories: Featured, Latest Stories From AHS|

Mistaken for a secretary, uncredited for a Nobel Prize, and other historic inequities women in medicine have faced

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 medical schools that rejected Elizabeth Blackwell, who would go on to become the first woman to obtain a medical degree, [...]

Among the vanished CDC webpages: The disappearance of health equity data

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 years that have passed since Martin Luther King Jr. gave an impassioned speech at the Medical Committee for Human [...]

New year, new boo: This is the most popular dating 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.     Increase in time Americans spent at home in 2022, compared to 2003, signaling a trend toward staying in: 1 hour, 39 [...]

Thank you, AHS. This is what you accomplished this year

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 emergency room visits provided across Alameda Health System’s (AHS’) hospitals, including at John George Psychiatric Hospital, in fiscal year [...]

Native American health is woefully underfunded. This is how much experts say is really needed 

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 square miles traversed by Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American to receive a medical degree, in [...]

Getting Screened for Life campaign to launch in October 2024!

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women and while breast cancer rates have been decreasing steadily since 1989, the decline has slowed slightly in recent years disproportionately impacting communities of color. Variations in breast cancer can be seen in racial and ethnic groups. For example, Asian, Pacific Islander and white [...]

2024-10-07T21:41:39+00:00October 7th, 2024|Categories: AHS Newsletter, CEO Chronicles, Featured, Latest Stories From AHS|

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 [...]