Madera has its hospital back after more than 2 years

MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – After much than 2 years, the City of Madera has its infirmary back. It’s much than conscionable a instrumentality of a gathering - It’s the instrumentality of life-saving care.

“I tin archer you there’s not a time that goes by that we’re not redeeming lives,” Madera Community Hospital CEO Steve Stark said.

The Madera Community Hospital opened its doors connected March 18, but today, folks gathered for a ribbon cutting to observe the hospital's return.

“We’ve got much than 800 employees now. We’ve got positions unfastened still, truthful we’re actively hiring,” Stark said.

103 infirmary beds are present disposable for patients successful the Madera area. The reopening of this assemblage staple wouldn’t beryllium imaginable without immoderate section lawmakers.

“We were capable to unafraid wrong the archetypal six months of being successful an elected office, 300 cardinal dollars of the distressed infirmary indebtedness program, which ended up securing 57 cardinal dollars for Madera,” Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria said.

“It’s a confirmation that we were capable to get things done adjacent though they were truly hard,” Senator Anna Caballero said.

Among those benefitting from the reopened infirmary are Athziri Zavalza.

“I was a caregiver present successful the ICU,” Zavalza said. She utilized to enactment astatine the Madera infirmary earlier closing successful December 2022. Now, she’s backmost successful Madera moving arsenic a objective educator.

“I unrecorded similar 5 minutes from here. I’m precise grateful for each the radical that decided to travel backmost and beryllium portion of the radical that reopened this facility,” Zavalza said.

While the infirmary was closed, Zavalza went retired of her mode to proceed her career.

“I was traveling astir an hour, hr and a fractional regular determination and back. So it was rather a drive, particularly connected the 99 with the freeway being truly afloat during precocious highest hours,” Zavalza said.

Not lone volition Madera's aesculapian professionals prevention miles, they’ll prevention much lives.

“We person a 128-slice CT scanner. So really, Madera, adjacent though it was closed, we’ve brought it backmost to immoderate of the astir precocious exertion that you tin buy,” Stark said.

“This is simply a bully feeling for me, and I deliberation the assemblage is going to beryllium precise grateful to person the infirmary backmost open,” Zavalza said.

Specialty services the caller infirmary volition connection see orthopedics, cardiology, and women’s health.