Hiring hope: Madera Community Hospital inches closer to reopening with hiring events

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- As Madera Community Hospital prepares to employment caller staff, anticipation among enactment and a section doc grows that the installation volition soon beryllium capable to unfastened its doors and bring attraction backmost to the community.

Dr. Mohammad Ashraf has provided cardiology attraction successful Madera for 44 years.

His signifier is successful the aforesaid parking batch arsenic Madera Community Hospital, a convenient determination if his patients look aesculapian emergencies oregon request further care.

However, for astir 2 years, aft the infirmary unopen down, helium had to nonstop his patients to hospitals successful Fresno.

"When they spell implicit there, it's a long, agelong wait, and past they spot idiosyncratic who they're not acquainted with," said Ashraf.

As Madera Community Hospital enactment prepares for 2 upcoming hiring events, Dr. Ashraf hopes to nonstop his patients crossed a parking batch alternatively than implicit region lines.

"Not lone conscionable america sending a sick diligent implicit there. We person laboratories, we person X-rays," said Ashraf. "Hospitals are not conscionable a spot for sick radical only, it's besides for other, different reasons."

American Advanced Management took implicit the shuttered infirmary successful April.

In the past six months, the enactment has worked to renovate the interior and exterior of a much than 50-year-old building.

"When this spot closed, immoderate of the presumption that it had grandfathered, specified arsenic handicap accessibility, each had to beryllium upgraded," said Madera Community Hospital CEO Steve Stark. "A batch of things had to beryllium upgraded, truly much than we had expected, I think, successful the archetypal phases."

Now, they're looking to capable 85 positions, everything from enactment to nursing unit to housekeeping.

If they tin get the positions filled, CEO Steve Stark aims for the infirmary to beryllium opened by mid-December, providing alleviation to the community.

"It's inevitable we're going to prevention lives, and that's truly what we're trying to do; we're trying to bash it arsenic soon arsenic possible, truthful we admit the assemblage bearing with america and waiting with us, but we privation to unfastened responsibly and safe," said Stark.

The events are astatine the infirmary connected Saturday, October 19, from 10 AM to 4 PM and Monday, October 21, from 10 AM to 6 PM.

Those funny are encouraged to apply online for positions up of time, but computers volition beryllium disposable on-site.

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