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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Madera businessman is moving to reopen the Madera Community Hospital after it closed successful 2022.
It’s the lone infirmary successful astir a 30-mile radius, truthful residents person had to question to Fresno oregon Merced for healthcare.
“We cognize there's been patients that didn't past the trip,” Madera Community Hospital CEO Steve Stark said.
He says having a infirmary successful Madera is captious for the wellness of its residents.
He estimates the reopening to outgo astatine slightest $2.5 million.
“We're starting with a basal exigency country and that requires 8 halfway services to exist… So we truly are going to beryllium backmost to astir mean close connected the time we start,” Stark said.
He says the infirmary volition person caller instrumentality similar a CT scanner and volition purpose to get ER patients to a doc wrong 30 minutes of their visit.
They besides program to present outpatient services successful the future.
He hopes to unfastened the infirmary Dec. 16, but says they volition person to prosecute a batch of radical earlier that tin happen.
“It's clip present to commencement bringing connected each levels of staff… We've seen an overwhelmingly affirmative effect from our community,” Stark said.
They are hiring for a wide assortment of positions and volition clasp 2 occupation fairs to conscionable candidates. Click present to look astatine the database of occupation openings.
The archetypal occupation just is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
They’ll clasp different just connected Monday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
“It’s a infirmary that everybody truly benignant of chalked disconnected arsenic going distant forever… Our institution looked astatine it otherwise and said, 'There's a existent request successful this assemblage for a hospital,’” Stark said.
He believes the infirmary volition prevention lives, and has crews moving astatine each hours to bring healthcare backmost to Madera.
