Community Regional Medical Center is diverting patients with head trauma after a contract with several dozen physicians lapsed Monday. Listen to this article: Twenty-eight physicians in 12 specialties lost the funding they need to continue serving patients at Community Medical Center, according to a news release from the Central California Faculty...
‘Drop the Gun, Brother’: Clovis Police Release Body-Cam Footage of Fatal Walmart Shooting
Dramatic body-cam footage released by the Clovis Police Department on Tuesday revealed how officers pleaded with the suspect to drop his weapon right before they shot and killed him Sunday morning in a Walmart parking lot. The suspect, 26-year-old Nikolas Frazier, was also revealed to have made the 911 call that...
Military Support Teams Leave California Hospitals Despite High COVID-19 Numbers
California is losing five of the eight military support teams helping hospitals through some of the most challenging times during the pandemic. This, despite White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx calling out the Central Valley as a COVID-19 hot spot earlier this month. Visalia's team of 21 is leaving...
More Than 200 Community Medical Centers Staff Out Due to COVID-19
Community Medical Centers is down 219 staff members as coronavirus cases continue to surge in Fresno County. On Thursday, CMC's website showed 40 staff members had the coronavirus. But by Friday, that same dashboard reported 104 had tested positive. In total, 219 members of the staff were in self-isolation. (Editor's...
Fresno State Engineers Design Devices to Protect Healthcare Workers from COVID-19
Fresno State engineering students and their professors are trying to help protect healthcare workers from becoming infected with COVID-19 by designing and building face shields, masks, and air respirators. The mechanical engineering lab in Engineering West hummed Friday as 3-D printers churned out parts for face shields and masks. Some...
UCSF-Fresno Doctor Uses 'Promising' Drug on Covid-19 Patients
It's a four-syllable drug we may need to all learn by next month: "remdesivir." GV Wire spoke with the UCSF-Fresno doctor leading a local study on the drug. Dr. Eyad Almasri says he's already given the drug to four patients, and the hospital has only had it in stock for a...
These Clovis Student Volunteers Step Up During COVID-19 Crisis
Juniors and seniors in Kelly Eichmann's patient-care pathways classes at Clovis East High School are used to going twice weekly to hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and doctor's offices. They help out while learning about the different careers they might have someday. After area schools were closed last month by the...
Free Hot Spots Connect Fresno Unified Students With Internet
Didn't get your homework done because you don't have access to the internet? That excuse won't work any longer for the Fresno Unified students who are getting a free mobile hot spot. Project Connect and Sprint's 1Million Project Foundation are providing hot spots to 1,000 Fresno Unified high schoolers this...
Anonymous Donor Doubles Sethi Family's $50K Gift to CRMC
Talk about good timing. A week after an anonymous donor pledged to match gifts up to $500,000 at Community Regional Medical Center, the trust of the late Mohan and Sushila Sethi donated $50,000 Monday. With the anonymous donor match, the Sethi gift for homeless aftercare for patients discharged from the...
Meet Six Valley Medical Students in Unique Training Program
By Brandy Ramos Nikaido UCSF Fresno The start of the new UCSF San Joaquin Valley Program in Medical Education (SJV PRIME) comes at a critical time, as California is facing a projected shortfall of up to 4,100 primary care clinicians in just 10 years, according to the California Future Health Workforce...