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Dear Editor,
Although I exposed the substandard 2007 Alameda County Emergency Medical Services stroke transport protocol in an October letter in your publication, kudos go to Mayor Johnson, Interim City Manager Anne Marie Gallant, and the Alameda County Emergency Medical Services (ACEMS) Director Dale Fanning who all worked quickly – overriding the hospital’s protest – to get this changed in under two months. As of 12/1/2010, our ambulances transport stroke victims to certified stroke centers. Record time, I’d say!
Continue reading Alameda Hospital “After 4-hours” Window for Stroke Victims Makes No Sense
Dr. Robert Deutsch, M.D., a member of the Alameda Health Care District Board of Directors, which oversees Alameda Hospital, has denied that his presence on the board of the District which has oversight over the Hospital with whom he contracts to provide services to represents a conflict of interest.
Continue reading Alameda Hospital Doctor, Board Member, Denies Conflict of Interest
Documents obtained by Action Alameda News indicate that, effective Wednesday, December 1, 2010, Alameda County will terminate an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) policy that called for paramedics to take stroke victims in the city of Alameda to Alameda Hospital, even though the Hospital is not a certified stroke center. The change in policy has been confirmed by the Alameda County Health Services Agency.
Continue reading Paramedic Routing Preference for Alameda Hospital to End Wednesday
Correspondence between Alameda Hospital, and the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency, obtained by Action Alameda News, shows that Alameda Hospital CEO Deborah Stebbins is fighting back Alameda County’s attempts to remove a preference to route stroke victims to Alameda Hospital from County Emergency Medical Services (EMS) procedures.
Continue reading Alameda Hospital Fights County to Keep Stroke Victim Preferential Routing Rule
The Emergency Medical Services Division of the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency Public Health Department is looking to review a three-old preference for Alameda Hospital in County Emergency Medical Services practice, as the current practice is “not in the best interests of patient care.”
Continue reading Alameda County Seeks to Change EMS Preference for Alameda Hospital
Dear Editor,
On October 27th you published a commentary by Jordan Battani, President of the City of Alameda Health Care District. Ostensibly it was a reply to Denise Lai’s earlier commentary regarding the systemic failure of Alameda Hospital. Ms. Battani’s reply was cleverly constructed to dodge the issue which is that Alameda Hospital, as presently constituted, provides sub-optimal care to the people of Alameda who pay for that “privilege” to the tune of 5.7 million dollars per year.
Continue reading Battani’s Mis-leading Response to Op-Ed
Dear Editor,
I am writing to express dismay for Jordan Battani’s commentary published last week. I’m a little stunned that Ms. Battani did not apologize to Denise Lai in her commentary, nor take any responsibility for the substandard care at Alameda Hospital that almost cost Denise her life, a life I would personally hate to see come to an early end. As the president of the Alameda HealthCare district, Ms. Battani can be expected to show some concern for the well-being of a patient. Instead, Ms. Battani chose to spout tired bureaucratic platitudes, distort the truth and dodge the facts.
Continue reading Battani Dodges the Facts
Dear Editor,
In her open letter, the Alameda Healthcare District’s board director Jordan Battani calls my recent op-ed rumor and innuendo. She wants facts.
Regarding my personal experience at the hospital this summer:
Fact One: The Alameda ER written report that details the very real physician and nurse failures that nearly killed me…and the doctor’s documentation errors…he listed me as a child brought in by her parent! I assure you, I am not a child!
Fact Two: The Alameda Hospital bill of $10,000+ for the ER visit and for imaging later that same month; all was comped; I did not pay one dime.
Continue reading Reader Stands by Her Assertions About Alameda Hospital
In a two-page written response, Jordan Battani, the President of the City of Alameda Health Care District Board of Directors, has responded to a recent reader letter about Alameda Hospital’s practices.
Continue reading Alameda Hospital Defends Practices
Dear Editor,
Current Alameda Hospital District board members are telling us that they’ve overseen the greatest financial turnaround in the hospital’s history while elevating the best interest of Alamedans and preserving critical high quality healthcare. This cannot possibly be true.
Continue reading Alameda Hospital Business Strategies are at Odds with our Right to Optimal Healthcare
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