Alameda County leaders and healthcare groups gathered outside St. Rose Hospital in Hayward this week to announce an expansion to medical services for thousands of East Bay residents. 

Alameda Health System and Standford Health Care announced a collaboration to expand specialized care at St. Rose Hospital in Hayward that would increase nursing facility beds, invest in medical units, and allow Stanford Health Care staff to work at the hospital. 

Leaders at both health systems on Thursday said the expansion would benefit the over 400,000 people living across central and southern Alameda County. 

Alameda Health System Chief Executive Officer James Jackson said he is proud of his team’s efforts to make health care more accessible across Alameda. He said the partnership with Stanford Health Care will improve the outcomes of people across the region.

“Today marks a commitment to ensuring that high quality, compassionate care remains accessible,” said Jackson. “And a commitment to demonstrating that community hospitals such as St. Rose are not only viable, but essential and capable of enduring success.”

The collaboration will allocate nursing facility beds at St. Rose for Stanford referrals for rehabilitative care, develop a community-based inpatient medical psychiatric unit, improve medical-surgical beds, have Stanford staff use St. Rose operating rooms, and more support for the AHS/St. Rose foundation. 

Rick Shumway is the Chief Operating Officer at Stanford Health Care and said the organization’s philosophy is to serve people and in the places they need to be served. 

“Today marks a commitment to ensuring that high quality, compassionate care remains accessible.”

James Jackson, Alameda Health System chief executive officer

“We do not know all of the needs and all of the things that happen here in Hayward and southern Alameda County communities,” said Shumway. “But we do know that everybody here that we get to partner with do have those answer and we want to make sure that we are identifying the very best ways to engage with this community in the ways it needs.” 

Shumway said they are helping to establish the St. Rose Hospital Community Fund, which will help leaders invest in services across the community. 

Alameda County Supervisor Elisa Marquez said the collaboration will help strengthen the region’s health safety net. 

“I am proud and excited to have Stanford Health Care serve Hayward and the surrounding Tri-Cities area to promote quality health care access for all,” said Marquez.