Community Regional Medical Center adds 10 beds to neuro ICU

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Community Regional Medical Center is taking enactment to conscionable the needs of patients successful Central California by adding much beds to the neuroscience intensive attraction unit.

"Time is simply a brain. So the sooner that a diligent tin person acute attraction care for their neurologic oregon neurosurgical injury, it volition perfectly straight correlate with however good they bash aft hospitalization," explained Dr. Arash Afshinnik, CRMC's Director of Neurocritical Care.

The infirmary is seeing much patients successful its neuro ICU with life-threatening neurological problems, specified arsenic a changeable oregon encephalon tumor.

The request for attraction started to outgrow the abstraction available.

"Over the past 5 years, we've expanded to Neuro 2, truthful past we were a 20-bed neuro ICU. Then now, we've conscionable expanded to Neuro 3, truthful we are a 30-bed ICU," said Clinical Nurse Supervisor Jennifer McMaster.

CRMC added 10 much beds to the unit, which is an enlargement to celebrate.

The infirmary nary longer transports patients retired to different hospitals successful Southern California oregon the Bay Area. This means patients, who are usually from Central California, get to enactment successful the country and adjacent to family.

"The payment truly comes with respect to healing and family," Dr. Afshinnik said. "There is simply a enslaved betwixt the diligent and the family, with respect to recovery."

According to CRMC, the 10 beds are from the former Pediatric Intensive Care Unit -- which closed past December owed to debased diligent volumes. However, the infirmary said it continues to supply the aforesaid attraction to pediatric patients successful the ICU.

They judge this alteration allows the infirmary to amended service the community.

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