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Oakland, CA-based Alameda Health System has Appointed Dave Gravender as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Alameda Health System is the East Bays premier patient and family-centered care system. Our trauma center and teaching hospital are considered among the best in the country. We are committed to continually improving health through individual patient experiences. Our mission, Caring, Healing, Teaching, Serving All, speaks to the vital role we play in the community and the critical responsibility we accept in promoting wellness, eliminating disparities and optimizing the health of a diverse East Bay. Our facilities include Highland Hospital, a regional trauma center and teaching hospital, John George Psychiatric Hospital, an acute and emergency care facility, Fairmont Hospital, an acute rehabilitation hospital and skilled nursing facility, longtime community-based hospitals San Leandro Hospital and Alameda Hospital and four neighborhood-based community Wellness Centers located in Oakland, Newark and Hayward. It is a New Day in health care, and its a New Day at Alameda Health System.
About the Person
Dave Gravender comes to AHS from Kaweah Healthcare District in Visalia, Calif., where he served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer since 1998, and managed four departments, 139 employees and a budget of $25 million. Between 1985 and 1998, Gravender worked for Community Health Network in Indianapolis, Ind., serving in various roles from program analyst to Director of Information Systems. From 1994 to 1996, while acting as Director of Information Services Administration for Community Health Network, he oversaw 215 employees and served as information architect for a 2,000-bed health system with $1 billion in revenue. The two-year experiment resulted in a combined savings of $16 million for the health network. Gravender earned his B.A. in 1982 from Eastern Michigan University, and his M.A. in 1998 from the University of Indianapolis.
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