Community Regional is moving away from pediatric care, raising concerns for parents

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Clovis parent is raising the alarm astir specialty pediatric attraction successful the valley, aft she was told her child's Community Regional Medical session was shutting down.

She said galore parents volition beryllium near searching for caller providers, arsenic the infirmary strategy confirms it is moving distant from pediatric care.

Aubrey Gillen spends a batch of clip raising consciousness astir Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), a familial upset some she and her 9-year-old lad unrecorded with.

EDS tin origin cardiovascular issues and neurological symptoms it often requires the attraction of aggregate specialists.

"We truly request entree to a neurologist, a cardiologist," said Gillen. "And past besides an allergist, those are astir apt the astir communal that we would spot arsenic good arsenic either rheumotology oregon idiosyncratic with expertise successful orthopedic impairments."

Gillen is the chairperson of the Clovis/Fresno EDS group, which includes astir 200 members.

Like Gillen's son, galore of the children successful the radical person attraction astatine the pediatric specialty session astatine Community Medical Centers, astatine some the Fresno and Clovis campuses.

Gillen said she recovered retired astatine her son's assignment successful precocious July that the session is shutting down.

Patients received a missive from Community Health that said they volition assistance with individualized enactment to support care, whether with their existing supplier astatine a caller determination oregon a caller provider.

If they take to find a caller provider, they're directed to scope retired to their pediatrician oregon superior attraction supplier for a referral.

Gillen said she and different parents are present disquieted astir uncovering attraction for their kids.

"It's a immense interaction connected that centralization of care, but besides conscionable access," said Gillen.

Community Regional Medical Center (CRMC) said this modulation volition hap implicit the adjacent six months and past it volition nary longer person outpatient pediatric specialty attraction clinics astatine either campus.

In a connection to Action News, Community Health said that Valley Children's Healthcare has leased the session abstraction to supply pediatric outpatient services connected the field opening adjacent twelvemonth and that Community Health would beryllium focusing chiefly connected big services.

Valley Children's confirmed it is leasing the abstraction and gave Action News a connection that work successful part, it "is exploring options to support continuity of attraction for kids arsenic Community Health System transitions distant from operating its pediatrics outpatient clinics."

Community Health said the 18 clinicians and 44 squad members affected volition person the accidental to modulation to different providers oregon different positions wrong the system.

They did not accidental however galore patients would beryllium impacted.

Gillen said immoderate patients mightiness beryllium burdened by having to question specialty attraction extracurricular of the country successful the Bay Area oregon L.A., similar she has had to successful the past.

She's moving connected a session time to link EDS patients with section providers and resources with much accusation to beryllium released later.

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