Madera Community Hospital
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Madera Community Hospital is a not-for-profit
community health
resource and is not associated with any other hospital
or health system
. The hospital is locally governed by a Board of Trustees which provides governance and oversight. The board is composed of over a dozen community and business leaders. Madera Community Hospital was founded in 1971 and is located at 1250 E. Almond Avenue in Madera, California
. The hospital contains 106 acute care
beds, a 16-bed Emergency Department
and a 10-bed Intensive Care Unit
. Madera Community Hospital also operates two rural health care clinics
and a home health agency.
Madera Community Hospital is fully accredited by the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program
(HFAP), by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act, 1988
(CLIA) program and is a member of the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California and the California Healthcare Association.
Non-profit organization
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community health
Community health
Community health, a field of public health, is a discipline that concerns itself with the study and betterment of the health characteristics of biological communities. While the term community can be broadly defined, community health tends to focus on geographic areas rather than people with shared...
resource and is not associated with any other hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
or health system
Health system
A health system can be defined as the structured and interrelated set of all actors and institutions contributing to health improvement. The health system boundaries could then be referred to the concept of health action, which is "any set of activities whose primary intent is to improve or...
. The hospital is locally governed by a Board of Trustees which provides governance and oversight. The board is composed of over a dozen community and business leaders. Madera Community Hospital was founded in 1971 and is located at 1250 E. Almond Avenue in Madera, California
Madera, California
Madera is a city in and the county seat of Madera County, California, United States. It is a principal city of the Madera–Chowchilla Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Madera County, and Metropolitan Fresno. It is located in California's San Joaquin Valley. As of the 2010...
. The hospital contains 106 acute care
Acute care
Acute care is a branch of secondary health care where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery...
beds, a 16-bed Emergency Department
Emergency department
An emergency department , also known as accident & emergency , emergency room , emergency ward , or casualty department is a medical treatment facility specialising in acute care of patients who present without prior appointment, either by their own means or by ambulance...
and a 10-bed Intensive Care Unit
Intensive Care Unit
thumb|220px|ICU roomAn intensive-care unit , critical-care unit , intensive-therapy unit/intensive-treatment unit is a specialized department in a hospital that provides intensive-care medicine...
. Madera Community Hospital also operates two rural health care clinics
Rural health clinic
A Rural Health Clinic is a clinic located in a rural, medically under-served area in the United States that has a separate reimbursement structure from the standard medical office under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. RHCs were established by the ,...
and a home health agency.
Madera Community Hospital is fully accredited by the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program
Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program
The Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program , is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping healthcare organizations maintain the highest standards in patient care and comply with ever-changing government regulations and a constantly evolving healthcare environment.Headquartered in...
(HFAP), by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act, 1988
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act, 1988
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988 was presumably passed subsequent to the publication of an article in November 1987 in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Lax Laboratories: The Pap Test Misses Much Cervical...
(CLIA) program and is a member of the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California and the California Healthcare Association.