Saint Agnes gets historic $13 million donation to upgrade emergency department

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A historical donation of $13 cardinal volition assistance St. Agnes not lone grow and upgrade its existent Emergency Department, but besides amended wide diligent care.

"It volition marque an interaction successful respective cardinal areas, which see entree to attraction and upgrading our facilities and equipment," says Chief Development Officer Sara Frauenheim.

Built successful the aboriginal 2000s, the existent exigency section is agelong and constrictive and is built for up to 45,000 visits a year.

The enlargement would enactment the installation astatine implicit 40,000 quadrate feet.

"This caller task is truly astir aligning the facilities with the enactment that's done wrong the department," Frauenheim said. "We volition beryllium moving to a caller location. It volition beryllium utilizing immoderate of our existing footprint and expanding our footprint arsenic well."

In May, St. Agnes launched a fundraising run to assistance rise funds for the caller facility.

The $13.6 cardinal donation from the King J. Richter Estate brings the infirmary 1 measurement person to reaching its goal.

"It puts america astatine implicit 50%," Frauenheim said. "Our extremity is $20 cardinal -- we're present implicit $10 million. We'll beryllium capable to interruption crushed successful 2027. We're truly excited due to the fact that this truly solidifies our estimation successful the assemblage and the attraction we provide, and we'll proceed to propel america moving forward."

St. Agnes' Emergency Department sees implicit 90,000 radical each year. Frauenheim says the multi-million-dollar donation volition assistance them conscionable the needs of the diligent population.

"We cognize that with a caller exigency department, radical volition beryllium coming to our hospital," Frauenheim said. "We are acceptable to conscionable those needs successful the caller country that we're building."

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