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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Madera Community Hospital is reopening aft being closed for much than 2 years, bringing metropolis residents captious healthcare entree without having to question to different cities for exigency services.
Senator Anna Caballero says the infirmary volition reopen connected March 18.
The Madera Community Hospital closed successful 2022 and near Madera residents without exigency aesculapian care, forcing them to question retired of the metropolis to person exigency aesculapian services. The closure besides displaced implicit 900 healthcare workers. According to officials, the infirmary filed for bankruptcy successful March 2023.
In February, the hospital underwent a nationalist survey that CEO Steve Stark said would let surveyors from the State to look astatine the hospital's "readiness to instrumentality attraction of patients." After delays for its opening, connected Monday Caballero announced the infirmary is acceptable to instrumentality attraction of the assemblage erstwhile more.
"Today, we observe much than the reopening of a hospital. We observe the restoration of hope, information and entree to captious healthcare services," said Caballero. "Healthcare entree is not a privilege— it is simply a cardinal right. No household should ever person to wonderment wherever to spell successful a aesculapian emergency. With today’s reopening, Madera families tin erstwhile again person the prime attraction they deserve, close successful their ain community."
Caballero says the $57 cardinal awarded to the infirmary done the Distressed Hospital Loan Program was a captious measurement to its reopening.
Officials adhd a assemblage lawsuit volition beryllium held pursuing the facility's opening to grant the "resilience of Madera, the dedication of our healthcare workers and the corporate efforts that made this time possible."
The Madera Community Hospital is located astatine 1250 E. Almond Ave.
