On February 11, Alameda Health System management posted a 59-page document detailing the layoffs they intend to make across the county’s safety-net healthcare system. The cuts include:

• Closing Outpatient Behavioral Health Wellness at Highland (dozens of patients)
• Closing Outpatient Behavior Health at Fairmont (approximately 100 patients)
• Closing Health Advocates Program at Highland (more than 3,000 patients)
• Closing Fairmont Hospital’s cafeteria for visitors and employees (1,000 transactions a month)
• Reducing dozens of other programs, including Patient Financial Services that supports billing and collection of hospital revenue

Many AHS workers have been placed on paid leave and instructed not to work while the layoff process continues, meaning AHS is paying workers not to provide medical care as a response to funding cuts that have not yet been made.

Help us fight these cuts: RSVP for the public Beilenson Hearing so we can fill the room with voices saying as one, “STOP THE LAYOFFS!”