Congressmen-elect Jim Costa, D-Fresno, and John Duarte, R-Modesto, are urging federal officials to declare a local health emergency due to the closure of Madera Community Hospital. The bipartisan letter, sent Thursday to Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources, and Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator of the Centers...
Madera Hospital ICU Overrun With COVID Patients as State Promises Help
Madera Community Hospital has 10 ICU beds. All those beds are filled with COVID-19 patients. In fact, there's not a single ICU bed available in the entire county. "All of those are patients that are on ventilators," hospital Chief Executive Officer Karen Paolinelli tells GV Wire℠by Zoom. "We do have seven patients...
Madera Hospital, With ICU Inundated, Transfers Patients to Other Facilities
Madera Community Hospital was so inundated with ICU patients Monday night they had to put out a plea for help. "We were successful in moving about five of those patients out of that facility," Fresno County EMS Director Dan Lynch told reporters on a video call Tuesday afternoon. Three patients...
More Military Teams Help Valley Hospitals as COVID-19 Takes Toll on Staff
Hospital staffing amid the coronavirus pandemic is a big challenge in the Valley. In response, the Fresno County Office of Emergency Medical Services is asking the state for more help. That's on top of the military boots on the ground the Valley has already received. Another military team arrived in...
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...