The last time Dallas Selling was at Community Regional Medical Center she was 19 weeks pregnant with twins and battling COVID-19. Her lengthy stay included three weeks on a ventilator and multiple weeks of rehabilitation. Selling, 39, of Clovis, spent a total of 49 days in the hospital before she was...
Without Fanfare, These Frontline Hospital Workers are Fighting COVID Room by Room
Don't call them janitors, cleaning crew members, or sanitation workers. They are environmental services technicians, or EVS for short. They often find themselves right in the epicenter of where COVID-19 cases are raging. As GV Wire℠discovered while getting a sense of who these people are, many do their jobs out...
Military Team Lands, Fresno’s Top Doc ‘Very Worried’ About Days Ahead
Air Force and Army military medical personnel, including doctors, nurses, and respiratory technicians, began their orientation at Community Regional Medical Center Tuesday morning. The military reinforcements are among the Department of Defense medical teams being sent into four California hospitals to provide medical support alongside hospital staff as patient loads...
Almost 15,000 COVID Vaccine Doses May Not Be Usable, Says Fresno County Health Official
An issue with the data logger in the shipping box has called into question the viability of 14,800 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine that arrived in Fresno County Wednesday. The data logger tracks the vaccine through travel to ensure it stays appropriately cold while being transported "We are coordinating...
CRMC Gives First Look of New Alternative Care Site in North Medical Plaza Building
Fresno's downtown Community Regional Medical Center has now opened their 50 bed alternate care site to address increased patient loads resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical personnel including doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals contracted from private staffing company AMI Expeditionary Healthcare, worked for over a week to get the...
Woman Gave Birth During COVID Treatment. Fresno Doctors Saved Her and Baby Girl.
Gabby Manoz was pregnant when she contracted COVID in August. Her mom found her very sick at home and rushed her to Madera Community Hospital. The 25-year-old mom-to-be was assessed and soon transferred to Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno for a higher level of care. Doctors say Manoz was not...
CRMC Resolves Dispute With Physician Provider, at Least for Now
A labor dispute that threatened Community Regional Medical Center's level 1 trauma status and impacted patient care for about two weeks is temporarily resolved. The issue came to a head when CRMC’s contract with Central California Faculty Medical Group covering 28 physicians in 12 specialties ended Aug. 31. Six of these physicians are...
Military Support Team Gets a ‘Superheroes’ Sendoff From CRMC
After six weeks of helping CRMC through some of its most difficult staffing challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, a 20-person Department of Defense military support team from Travis Air Force base is almost done with its mission. A number of Community Regional Medical Center staff members were infected with COVID-19...
CRMC Won’t Lose Level 1 Trauma Status as Two Neurosurgeons Arrive
A threat to Community Regional Medical Center's level 1 trauma center designation ended one day before it would have been stripped. Fresno County EMS Director Daniel Lynch had given the hospital a 5 p.m. Friday deadline to restore 24-hour on-call neurosurgical services. At least two neurotrauma patients had to be...
CRMC Faces Friday Deadline To Resolve Labor Issue or Lose Level 1 Trauma Status
Fresno County EMS Director Daniel Lynch has notified Community Regional Medical Center that it has until 5 p.m. Friday to provide the staffing necessary to retain its level 1 trauma center status. At issue is a CRMC's relationship with Central California Faculty Medical Group covering 28 physicians in 12 specialties that ended...