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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A large concern successful downtown Fresno is nearing completion.
On Wednesday, Community Health Systems unveiled its brand-new Burnett Extended Care Center, a 154-bed skilled nursing installation designed to easiness the load connected section hospitals by providing semipermanent attraction successful a much home-like setting.
“This is simply a 154-bed skilled nursing installation that we’ve invested $35.5 cardinal to beryllium capable to bring up to code,” said Cory Belliston, who oversees Post Acute Services for Community Health System.
“We’re excited to beryllium capable to attraction for these patients successful a much home-like environment, escaped up immoderate acute attraction beds, and get patients successful a mounting that is much conducive to their healing.”
The installation successful Downtown Fresno had been closed since 2022. Community Health Systems spent the past 2 years renovating it from apical to bottom.
“We fundamentally past were capable to bring successful operation teams and bring it backmost up to code,” Belliston said.
Those down the task accidental the installation comes astatine a important time. With a shortage of skilled nursing beds crossed the Central Valley, galore patients who nary longer request to beryllium successful the infirmary are near waiting successful acute attraction beds.
“A fig of patients are remaining successful the acute attraction mounting wherever they’re much due to beryllium cared for successful a skilled nursing facility,” Belliston explained.
The Burnett Extended Care Center is designed to consciousness much similar a location than a hospital. It includes radical eating areas, calm spaces for household visits, and scheduled outings—all meant to enactment healing and recovery.
“There are large, beauteous spaces where, from a carnal therapy perspective, the patients tin regain their strength,” said Belliston. “They tin amended their gait to beryllium capable to beryllium safe, to past discharge home.”
What sets this installation isolated is its dedicated carnal and occupational therapy spaces.
Belliston says the occupational therapy country includes a afloat kitchen, laundry area, and grooming restroom—all designed to assistance patients regain the skills they request to instrumentality to autarkic living.
“These are things we often instrumentality for granted,” helium said. “This helps patients regain that level of relation with the eventual extremity of being home, which is wherever we each privation to be.”
Craig Wagoner, President and CEO of Community Health Systems, credited long-standing assemblage partnerships and enactment for making the installation possible.
“It couldn’t person been made imaginable without the tremendous magnitude of enactment that we’ve had implicit the years to get this done,” Wagoner said.
While the installation is present complete, it indispensable inactive walk a bid of inspections earlier admitting its archetypal patients.
“With a extremity of yet being full—accepting patients successful each rooms—hopefully by the extremity of the year.”
Once licensed, the Burnett Extended Care Center volition go a captious nexus successful Community Health Systems’ continuum of care, serving patients from infirmary discharge to afloat betterment astatine home.
More accusation connected the installation can beryllium recovered by clicking here.
