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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The Madera assemblage is celebrating different large milestone successful healthcare.
Just months aft the long-shuttered Madera Community Hospital reopened its doors, section and authorities leaders gathered erstwhile again, this clip to observe the instrumentality of its outpatient clinics, a captious assets for families crossed the agrarian Central Valley.
At a ribbon-cutting ceremonial held Tuesday morning, the infirmary officially unveiled its Family Health Services Clinic, marking a caller section successful restoring entree to mundane aesculapian attraction for Madera County residents.
“Today, we are precise pleased and precise blessed to officially unfastened our outpatient clinic, wherever we are going to supply each services,” said Ali Rashidian, M.D., of Madera Community Hospital.
The caller session volition connection patients a assortment of services, including superior attraction and wide surgery, with adjacent much specialties expected to beryllium added successful the coming months.
“The adjacent signifier volition beryllium bringing successful subspecialties that we didn’t person before,” Rashidian explained. “Such arsenic urology and EMT. We did person an EMT, but it was not a continuity. Now, we’re gathering that consistency of care.”
For section and authorities officials, the reopening represents different large measurement guardant successful rebuilding Madera County’s healthcare system.
“I’m conscionable ace arrogant to beryllium portion of this today,” said Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria. “We privation to guarantee that what happened implicit 2 years agone ne'er happens again to Madera County.”
Madera Community Hospital archetypal closed its doors successful aboriginal 2023 aft years of fiscal strain, debased diligent counts, and staffing challenges—issues that were compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure near tens of thousands of residents without a adjacent infirmary oregon regular entree to aesculapian care.
“This is truthful exciting. It’s been a agelong clip coming,” said Senator Anna Caballero. “No 1 wants a infirmary to adjacent successful their community. Health attraction is truly basic; it’s 1 of the things that everybody needs. The quality to person it unfastened again is genuinely exciting.”
With some the infirmary and its outpatient session present operational, assemblage leaders accidental this is conscionable the opening of a renewed committedness to ensuring that each Madera County nonmigratory has entree to prime healthcare adjacent to home.
