Community Medical Centers has made bold investments during the last decade to ensure that Valley residents have access to the highest quality medical care and services close to home, on par with major metropolitan areas. Community has also invested hundreds of millions to educate, recruit and retain physicians in a region that has one of the lowest doctor-to-patient ratios in the state. There is no single path to addressing the chronic health challenges in a region equivalent to the size of Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Jersey combined. The approach is holistic.

1. A DECADE OF
INVESTMENTS
brings expert
care closer
to home

2. Clovis Community Medical Center’s
5-story bed tower
Opened in 2012

4. AT THE FOREFRONT OF
CANCER TREATMENT
Community Regional Medical Center was first in
the world in 2005 to offer “Generation 4”
CyberKnife technology for noninvasive laser
treatment of hard-to-reach tumors and lesions –
especially prostate and lung cancers, among the
most prevalent cancers in the Central Valley.
The recurring $1 million annual investment cuts
the average prostate cancer radiation treatments
from 44 to four visits and eliminates most side
effects.
2005

5. Over the past decade, Community has
upgraded medical technology in all its
facilities, including $6 million for nuclear
medicine and interventional radiology in
2014. Such services were used to treat
16-year-old Lizzie Ocampo, for Hodgkin’s
Lymphoma. She was able to return to high
school four months after her diagnosis.
$75 Million+
our 10-year investment in
top medical technology
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6. BRINGING TOGETHER THE
REGION’S 24/7 LIFE SAVERS
All inpatient, acute-care services, including burn
and Level 1 trauma centers, were relocated from
University Medical Center to Community
Regional’s new, upgraded trauma and critical
care building.
Having improved high-tech scanning and a
cardiac surgery team on hand made a life-saving
difference for the first trauma victim flown to the
hospital after the transition. When it opened, the
emergency department was the state’s largest
housed under one roof. Within a few years, it
also became one of California’s busiest.
20052007

8. EXPANSION ON THREE
FRONTS FOR A GROWING
POPULATION’S NEEDS
During the largest economic downturn in recent
history and when other hospitals were closing
services, Clovis Community Medical Center began
its $300 million expansion to double the amount of
bed space and meet a 20-year projected population
increase of 43%.
Fresno Heart & Surgical Hospital completed its $8.3
million facility expansion, including two specialty
high-tech operating rooms, paving the way for an
internationally regarded bariatric program. And
downtown, Community Regional broke ground on
the 79,534-square-foot Deran Koligian Ambulatory
Care Center.
All of this construction created more than 750 jobs,
easing Fresno’s chronic double-digit unemployment
rates.
200520072008Community has seen a 33% increase
in patient volumes during last decade
requiring a 24% increase in hospital
bed space

9. MEETING A RISE IN AT-RISK
BIRTHS, KEEPING MOMS
AND BABIES TOGETHER
With Community Regional delivering so many
extremely premature babies under 3 lbs. 5 oz. –
more than any other hospital in California in most
years – the hospital built a 54-bed Level III
neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in 2009 so
babies and mothers could stay together. Two years
later, the NICU expanded to 84 beds, and an
emergency helicopter transport was launched for
fragile newborns coming to the NICU.
Reyna Donate was relieved to have such a
resource when her daughter Camilia was born too
early on May 5, 2015, weighing just 2 lbs. 2 oz.
2005200720082009

11. 2005
A NEUROSCIENCE CENTER
OF EXCELLENCE WITHOUT
THE LONG DRIVE
By 2013, Community Regional is performing a
third of all cranial surgeries in a 7-county region.
By recruiting neurosurgeons and installing top
technology to create a Neuroscience Center of
Excellence, Valley families could stay close to
home for complex, specialty care, that was once
transferred out to UCSF, Stanford and Cedars
Sinai.
When farmworker Juan Aquino suffered a seizure at work in a
Dinuba orchard, the small hospital he was rushed to found a
brain lesion. Doctors there sent him to the only place in the
Valley equipped to do complex brain surgery, Community
Regional Medical Center. By Christmas, he was home and
able to return to work.
20072008Community has seen a 33% increase
in patient volumes during last decade
requiring a 24% increase in hospital
bed space
2013

12. PARTNERSHIP WITH
NATIONAL LEADER ASSURES
PEDIATRIC SPECIALTIES
FOR OUR REGION
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and Community
Medical Centers signed a long-term agreement to
significantly enhance and expand specialty
medical care for Valley children. The agreement
aims to shorten waits to see pediatric specialists
and reduce the need for children to leave the area
for medical care. Construction of a pediatric
intensive care unit is underway.
UCSF pediatric residents like Erica Gastelum
(being supervised by attending pediatrician
Christian Faulkenberry-Miranda at left) will have
more opportunities to see patients and work with
pediatric specialists here in the Valley.
200520072008200920152015

13. 2005200720082009

14. Creating the one healthcare network
covering Valley families for a lifetime
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