Local leaders talk sustaining rural Reedley Hospital

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Transparency and spot are astatine the basal of Sierra Kings Health Care District's conscionable and greet lawsuit connected Tuesday afternoon.

"Some things are coming up with the infirmary and determination are decisions to beryllium made and the Sierra Kings said it's not conscionable a Sierra King's decision. We request to bring the City of Parlier and the City of Reedley, and the schoolhouse boards, and different section bureau representatives and person a afloat nationalist speech astir the aboriginal of our hospital," explains Chinayera Black-Hardaman, Sierra Kings Health Care District CEO.

Decisions and improvements see being seismic compliant by the twelvemonth 2030 to trim risks successful the lawsuit of an earthquake.

Plus plans for a continued concern with Adventist Health.

"Sierra King volition apt motorboat a ballot inaugural during the midterms successful 2026 but we privation to marque definite the assemblage understood that each we are asking them to bash is o.k. the ongoing narration with Adventist Health its not a taxation oregon enslaved initiative, it's simply saying we worth what Adventist Health has been doing successful our assemblage and we privation to marque definite we proceed to spouse with them," mentions Chinayera.

Sierra Kings Hospital District explains determination is simply a March 1, 2026, deadline wherever they would person to person a seismic ailment plan which meets definite requirements, "Once that plan is completed we instrumentality that to a operation bureau to spot however it would outgo for america to retrofit this hospital."

The speech comes amid uncertainty astir the stableness of agrarian hospitals, particularly aft the closure of Madera Community Hospital successful 2023 and the eventual reopening years later.

Timothy Haydock, Adventist Health Operations Executive, expresses, "There is simply a batch of concerns astir agrarian hospitals passim the authorities of California, crossed the country, truthful we wanted to reenforce to the assemblage members that adventist wellness is committed to the assemblage of Reedley, and each the things that we person done to marque definite we are connected unchangeable footing for the future."

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