A DECADE OF INVESTMENTS

brings expertcare closer

to home

Clovis Community Medical Center’s5-story bed towerOpened in 2012

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

2005200720082009

Creating the one healthcare network

covering Valley families for a lifetime

559.359-2670 to make a gift

Creating the one healthcare network

covering Valley families for a lifetime

559.359-2670 to make a gift