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California’s COVID Vaccinations are Lagging. Will Fresno Use Fairgrounds to Catch Up?

January 11, 2021

Texas has used 41% of its COVID-19 vaccine, according to figures from Bloomberg's state-by-state vaccine tracker. West Virginia, 71.8%. Florida, 44%. Meanwhile, lagging well behind most of the large states is California at 31.7%. Even former San Franc...

Photo of ambulance racing through city streets on a rainy night

New COVID Protocol Means Valley Ambulances Might Not Take You to Emergency Room

Jim Jakobs

December 18, 2020

"We are in a very grim, challenging time when it comes to the pandemic," Fresno County Interim Health Officer Dr. Rais Vohra said in a Friday afternoon briefing with reporters. Emphasizing the point, Fresno,...

Aerial view of Community Regional Medical Center in downtown Fresno, California

CRMC Resolves Dispute With Physician Provider, at Least for Now

Jim Jakobs

September 15, 2020

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 ...

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CRMC Won’t Lose Level 1 Trauma Status as Two Neurosurgeons Arrive

Jim Jakobs

September 10, 2020

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 neurosurgi...

CRMC Faces Friday Deadline To Resolve Labor Issue or Lose Level 1 Trauma Status

Jim Jakobs

September 9, 2020

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. "I have ne...

With Creek Fire Blazing, Labor Dispute Prevents Full CRMC Trauma Services

Jim Jakobs

September 8, 2020

Despite a weekend of negotiations, and in the shadow of the Creek fire, Community Regional Medical Center and its physician provider — Central California Faculty Medical Group —still haven't come to a resolutio...

CRMC Contract Dispute Drags Into Labor Day Weekend, No Neurosurgical Services

Jim Jakobs

September 4, 2020

It's unclear if Community Regional Medical Center will have doctors to provide care for anyone suffering a head injury that requires surgery over the busy Labor Day weekend. What is clear? There's still no agreement between the hospital and its physician...

Valley Hospitals Get Two More Weeks of Military Help

Jim Jakobs

August 12, 2020

With hospitalizations in the Valley down only slightly, military medical teams are extending their help in the coronavirus battle by 14 days. But, according to Fresno County EMS Director Dan Lynch, that won'...

As Hospitals Near Capacity, County Takes Steps to Open Convention Center

Jim Jakobs

July 22, 2020

Fresno area hospitals are scrambling to make bed space available in every nook, cranny, and extra building they have. But despite their best efforts, ICU bed space continues to dwindle. The latest numbers fr...

Image of Maj. Gen. Michael Stone visting Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, California, and the military medical team deployed there to fight the coronavirus pandemic

Fresno County Out of COVID-19 Drug, Tired Doctors Welcome Military Help

Jim Jakobs

July 20, 2020

The federal government is pushing out remdesivir as fast as it can get it, and yet Fresno County says the cupboard is bare. The potentially life-saving drug, which has anecdotally helped COVID-19 patients in the Valley, is hard to come by. The hospitals tha...

Vaccinated or Tested Fans OK'd for US Open Golf Tourneys in California

After 4 Year Fight, Former Fresno PD Site May Become Neighborhood Park

Clovis Unified, Fresno City Detail Their In-Person Graduation Plans

Fresno Gets ‘F’ Grades in Air Quality Again, but Is Any Progress Being Made?

Analysis: Christian Nationalism a Barrier to COVID Mass Vaccination

Paycheck Protection Loans: California Received Less Per Capita Than States Like North Dakota

Resnicks Give $250K To Help Newsom, but Pro-Recall Farmers ‘Afraid’ to Donate

DA Charges Former Clovis Council Hopeful for Alleged Campaign Sign Theft

This Local Eatery Will Creatively Solve Your 'Burger or Pizza' Dilemma This Month

Ted Nugent, Who Once Dismissed COVID-19, Sickened by Virus

Redemption Is Here for Autry’s Film ‘Victory By Submission’

Saddle Up and Get Vaccinated for Return of the Clovis Rodeo

Iran's Upcoming Elections Could Force a Nuclear Deal Now with US

Walters : California’s ‘Tort Wars’ Flaring Up Again

Nursing Scholarship Donation Is an Investment and a Thank-you

Walters : Newsom Puts Rosy Spin on Job Report

GV Wire Unfiltered – January 12, 2021

Eid al-Fitr Marks End of Ramadan, but COVID-19 Curtails Big Events

LIVE: Daily Briefing from Gov. Gavin Newsom

Planning Commission Delays Decision on Southwest Industrial Question

After Taking on Costa and AOC, Elizabeth Heng Sets Sights on U.S. Senate

Clovis City Council Candidates Spar During Candidate Forum

Valley GOP Lawmaker Valadao Votes To Impeach Trump

California’s COVID Vaccinations are Lagging. Will Fresno Use Fairgrounds to Catch Up?

New COVID Protocol Means Valley Ambulances Might Not Take You to Emergency Room

CRMC Resolves Dispute With Physician Provider, at Least for Now

CRMC Won’t Lose Level 1 Trauma Status as Two Neurosurgeons Arrive

CRMC Faces Friday Deadline To Resolve Labor Issue or Lose Level 1 Trauma Status

With Creek Fire Blazing, Labor Dispute Prevents Full CRMC Trauma Services

CRMC Contract Dispute Drags Into Labor Day Weekend, No Neurosurgical Services

Valley Hospitals Get Two More Weeks of Military Help

As Hospitals Near Capacity, County Takes Steps to Open Convention Center

Fresno County Out of COVID-19 Drug, Tired Doctors Welcome Military Help

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