Alameda Health System (AHS) is a leading public, integrated health care provider and medical training institution recognized for patient and family-centered care and reducing health disparities in Alameda County, California. AHS includes three acute care hospitals, a psychiatric hospital, four ambulatory care wellness centers, five post-acute facilities, and the only adult Level-1 Trauma Center and psychiatric emergency department in Alameda County.

This archive of memories reflects AHS’s experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, as described by the frontline workers, physicians, nurses, administrators, telephone operators, chaplains, and others across the system. It is one health care system’s collective memory of serving and caring for its community through a global pandemic.

In a memo released on February 28, 2023, the last day of California’s COVID-19 State of Emergency, AHS CEO James Jackson wrote, “Our greatest strength was and is our health care heroes who show up every day caring, healing, teaching, and serving all. When I allow myself to sit with the grief for all that has been lost, I become overwhelmed with gratitude for all that we still have, for how many we saved, and most of all, for all of you.”

Your generous donation will help AHS recover from COVID-19, expand services that help all Alameda County residents live healthy and fulfilling lives, and prepare for future public health events that impact the Alameda County community.