Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Summit - Features

Mission Statement:"We enhance the health and well being of people in the communities we serve through compassion and excellence."

Alta Bates Summit Medical Center offers comprehensive services designed to meet the health care needs of the diverse communities of the greater East Bay Area.

Diabetes Center:If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, or are wondering if you might have the disease, Alta Bates Summit can help. We offer a multitude of services to help you identify and take control of diabetes so that you can live a healthier life. (510) 204-1081

Spiritual Care Services:Because spirit is an important dimension of human wholeness and the healing process, our mission is to assist patients, families, loved ones, employees, and community members as they face the emotional and spiritual impact of illness and crisis. Chaplains (both staff chaplains and Clinical Pastoral Education students) help people deal with issues of fear, loneliness, hopelessness, ethical values, and questions of meaning. To contact a chaplain at the Summit Campus (in Oakland), please call (510) 869-6784 or page the on-call Chaplain at (510) 801-5050. Chaplains are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Walk into any Alta Bates Summit campus, and one of the very first people you'll see is a volunteer. Hundreds of people a day, thousands of people in a month's time, are assisted in the registration process; given information on how to reach a room, patient, meeting or service; sold gifts or flowers for a loved one; escorted to a treatment room or accompanied to a car on discharge; helped with a menu; had relatives soothed in the Emergency Department - all this and more by our volunteers.

Small Voice:Small Voice enables children with motor, sensory, communication and/or feeding delays to improve their chances for independent and productive lives. Small Voice helps children maximize their skills in order to better interact with and learn from their environment, resulting in improved quality of life and future academic success. Through our extensive parent training, we empower parents and caregivers to enhance their child's skills at home. To contact Small Voice, call (510) 204-4599.