Madera Community Hospital making improvements, moves one step closer to reopening

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Madera Community Hospital is 1 measurement person to reopening aft shutting its doors successful January 2023.

The Hospital received the archetypal installment of its $57 cardinal dollar indebtedness done the state's Distressed Hospital Loan Program.

For this archetypal first amount, the infirmary received $15 cardinal dollars connected Tuesday.

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"We deliberation the assemblage volition beryllium truly pleased with the information of their installation erstwhile it's clip to reopen," said Matthew Beehler, the Chief Strategy Officer with American Advanced Management.

Back successful April, the authorities approved American Advanced Management's petition to instrumentality implicit the infirmary and a $57 cardinal dollar no-interest indebtedness to assistance the installation reopen.

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On Tuesday, the infirmary got its archetypal installment.

"It conscionable helps facilitate that enactment to hap faster," said Beehler. "It helps facilitate being capable to get those employees hired and onboarded faster."

Beehler explained the wealth volition beryllium utilized to assistance with the hospital's operational costs during its reopening.

"An illustration is the caregiver telephone strategy successful the hospital," said Beehler. "It turned backmost on, and it functioned. But it's astatine it's astatine extremity of life."

A caller commencement comes with a caller look. New overgarment is present covering the building. The wrong volition beryllium getting improvements, from flooring to lighting. There are besides plans to repave the parking lot.

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The wealth is besides being utilized to upgrade equipment.

"Modernizing the installation arsenic good arsenic going done preventative attraction and instrumentality checks connected each of the instrumentality successful the hospital," said Beehler. "Making definite that everything is calibrated."

Across from the Madera Community Hospital is Dr. Mohammad Ashraf's backstage practice.

He's been serving Madera County for 43 years. From extracurricular his bureau window, helium tin spot each the enactment being done.

"The main happening is, we request doctors," said Dr. Ashraf. "If we don't person doctors, we cannot person a hospital."

Dr. Ashraf said galore of his patients went to Madera Community Hospital. But aft the infirmary closed, his patients sought attraction elsewhere.

"I've mislaid galore patients," said Dr. Ashraf. "I person patients who died traveling from present to Fresno. I person patients who spell to a hospital, and they don't spot me. They spot idiosyncratic other and it's not casual for them."

Dr. Ashraf is looking guardant to seeing healthcare workers instrumentality and service the community.

But he's besides gladsome that Madera County volition person its infirmary erstwhile again.

Madera Community Hospital is looking to commencement its hiring and unit predisposition process successful the adjacent fewer weeks.

The infirmary hopes to unfastened its doors by September oregon October this year.

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