Employees who want to keep their jobs at Saint Agnes Medical Center in northeast Fresno will have to claim an exemption or show proof of vaccination against the coronavirus by Sept. 21 because of a mandate announced this month by the parent corporation, Trinity Health. The Michigan-based Catholic health system...
Saint Agnes Wants to Honor Your Veteran on Memorial Day With a Flag
Want to honor a loved one who served and protected the United States on Memorial Day weekend? Saint Agnes Medical Center will fly an American Flag on its front lawn for anyone who died while in the military or after leaving the service. To sign up for a flag, click...
Saint Agnes Now Offering Same COVID Treatment President Trump Received
An ideal situation for high risk COVID-19 patients is now a reality at Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno. COVID-19 patients drive up to the hospital, call a number, and get escorted by a nurse into a special outpatient infusion room. There, the patients receive an infusion of either monoclonal or...
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...
Community Medical Centers Halting All Elective Surgeries by January 1
Due to staffing challenges and an increase of COVID-19 patients, Community Medical Centers will stop all "non-urgent" surgeries and procedures at their facilities by January 1. "The continual increase in inpatients and quarantined staff have forced us to make this decision based on available capacity and staffing," says Dr. Thomas Utecht,...
Will COVID Vaccine Arrive This Weekend? Local Hospitals to Decide Who Gets It First.
"We expect the vaccine to arrive as early as this weekend," Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted late Friday afternoon. Fresno County Interim Health Officer Dr. Rais Vohra says his department is expecting 7,800 doses from the initial batch. "It will be up to the hospitals to determine who will get it...
Valley Hospitals Get Two More Weeks of Military Help
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't be long enough. Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia, and Adventist...
Saint Agnes’ ‘Pledge to Protect’ Campaign Needs Your Photos
What started off as a small idea at Saint Agnes Medical Center is snowballing into a full-blown social media movement. Several hundred Saint Agnes employees signed onto the "Pledge to Protect" campaign. The goal is to raise awareness about the key ways to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the Fresno...
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...