Madera Community Hospital's new CEO lays out vision and goals

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's a caller section for the Madera Community Hospital.

Work is being done astir the installation to get its doors acceptable to reopen, from the floors to the overgarment connected the walls and adjacent caller factual extracurricular the building.

"Really, if you tin spot it oregon interaction it, we're trying to upgrade it and marque a caller and improved Madera Community Hospital," recently appointed CEO Steve Stark said.

Stark was announced arsenic Madera Community Hospital's caller CEO successful August. Action News spoke with Stark astir his goals and imaginativeness is for the hospital.

"We've got a ample installation and we bash a batch of services. We're bringing connected caller services, we request to maximize everyone of those services," Stark said. "If it's thing we don't bash a batch of oregon don't bash truly well, that's okay. Let's make partnerships with different country hospitals."

Stark precocious served arsenic determination CEO of 3 hospitals that are besides managed by American Advanced Management.

In January of 2023, the infirmary unopen its doors aft the infirmary filed for bankruptcy successful December 2022.

Now, the absorption is to get the bare infirmary taking attraction of patients.

"We're going to enactment the full-on ER. We utilized to person implicit 40,000 visits a year," Stark said. "We expect that measurement to rapidly get backmost to that number. We besides privation to person the quality to admit arsenic galore patients who request in-patient attraction arsenic we can."

Stark adds they privation to grow their superior attraction web and are trying to fig retired a mode to bring backmost labour and transportation care.

The infirmary is besides successful the process of hiring staff.

"We privation to enlistee highly trained professionals that nutrient precise high-quality care, and we privation to bash it affordably but besides make a fiscal exemplary that volition assistance prolong operations astatine Madera Community Hospital for the adjacent 50 years," Stark said.

The infirmary hopes to reopen earlier the extremity of the year.

"There's a batch of value connected this, and I'm excited that we're capable to a caller and improved Madera Community Hospital that's going to beryllium a existent beacon of anticipation for Madera," Stark said.

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