KNTV NBC July 3, 2024
Seeing an increase in patients. And hca, and treating the most severe heart attacks, known as stem e and downgrade the program, supervisor cindy chavez says 20 of the counties stroke patients are treated at regional. Somebody who is having a stroke, you dont want to drive another eight miles to get them to a stroke center, the reason is the impacts are minute by minute that brain damage happens. Sharon martinez says she was treated at the Regional Trauma Center and wouldve died she had to drive to another center. She and other Community Members and doctors spoke out, pleading to keep regionals...