As long as she can remember, 11-year-old Jennavieve “Jenna” Garcia has had stomach pains, often after she ate. Starting in kindergarten, the school nurse frequently called Jenna's mom because she was hurting. Jenna’s mother…
Juan Iniguez was just 21 years old when he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2013.“I retained a lot of water weight — lot of fluids I would cough…
We are proud to introduce our new Community Health System name and logo. While the changes may be subtle, it represents the progress and bold changes we’ve made to position…
As hospital ICU beds were filling up with coronavirus patients, Clovis Community Medical Center’s respiratory care reported a chilling fact: the hospital had only 20% of its oxygen reserves remaining.…
Kayleigh Thompson and her husband Dylan were thrilled when they found out they were expecting their second child — a boy to be named Oliver. But that excitement soon turned to…
At 82, Theodora Clifford feels she has years of fun left since a small balloon device was implanted in her heart. She was among the Valley’s first 100 patients to…
Ultrasonographer Mike Padilla had just finished seeing a patient when he went to connect some of his equipment and couldn’t figure out how to tighten a bolt on a screw.“It’s…
It was Christmas Day, with cousins playing tag and extended family cooking together outside over an open fire, when the unthinkable happened. Four-year-old Matthew Perez tripped and fell into a…
Early into the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Marina Roytman, Liver Program Director, UCSF Fresno, began to notice a disturbing trend.Patients were being admitted to Community Medical Centers hospitals with acute alcoholic…
In the last year, there has been a lot of changes to daily routines, including how and where mealtimes happen. When the COVID-19 pandemic was first declared, many people adopted a…