Highland Hospital in Oakland will be renamed after the late Alameda County Supervisor Wilma Chan, following a vote Tuesday by the current Board of Supervisors.

The board voted in favor of the idea because they believe Chan was committed to ensuring the best health care for all Californians, especially underserved and uninsured residents like immigrants and seniors, among others.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.