Central Valley General Hospital enjoys a long, rich history of caring for Hanford with personal attention and expert care.
The hospital owes its beginnings to Portuguese Dominican nuns, who had the Sacred Heart Hospital built in 1915 with 20 beds and expanded it in 1959. Adventist Health purchased the 49-bed hospital, which by then was called Central Valley General Hospital, in 1998.
The second and top floor of the three-story hospital features Women's Services with comfortable, homestyle rooms for labor and delivery. The unit also provides a neonatal intensive care unit staffed by Children's Hospital Central California for added care.
The hospital also offers radiology, laboratory and dining services on its main floor.
Another major service at Central Valley General Hospital is Community Care, which offers a clinic on the Garden Level as well as a clinic on the First Floor that is open 8 a.m. to midnight seven days a week. The clinic network also has three other services on the campus: a dental clinic, Healthy Beginnings prenatal care, Specialty and Hanford Family Practice Residency program.
Central Valley General Hospital is part of Adventist Health, a faith-based, not-for-profit integrated health care delivery system with nearly 20,000 employees serving communities in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington.
** Our Mission **
To share God's love by providing physical, mental and spiritual healing.
** Our Vision **
Our vision is to be a regional health care network that is recognized as the best place to receive care, the best place to practice medicine and the best place to work.
** Our Values **
At Adventist Health/Central Valley Network, we value:
* Compassion: The compassionate, healing ministry of Jesus.
* Respect: Human dignity and individuality.
* Integrity: Absolute integrity in all relationships and dealings.
* Quality: Excellence in clinical and service quality.
* Stewardship: Responsible resource management in serving our communities.
* Wholeness: The health care heritage of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
* Family: Each other as members of a caring family.
History Of Central Valley General Hosp
** Our History **
Adventist Health made its start in the central San Joaquin Valley with the construction of Hanford Community Medical Center in Hanford in 1965.
The hospital expanded over the years to accommodate the growing community’s needs, adding thousands of square feet and building the three-story Kerr Outpatient Center.
In 1998, Adventist Health’s growth in the Valley surged with the purchase of Central Valley General Hospital, formerly called Sacred Heart Hospital, in Hanford. A year later, Adventist Health purchased Selma Community Hospital about 15 miles north of Hanford.
Central Valley General Hospital and Selma Community Hospital also began opening rural health clinics to improve rural patients’ access to health care in the region.
In 2005, the hospital licenses of Hanford Community and Selma Community were combined, and Central Valley General Hospital took over the Selma Community clinics to consolidate operations among the three hospitals in an effort to improve access, quality and strength.
Hanford Community and many departments at Central Valley General Hospital moved into the new Adventist Medical Center – Hanford on December 5, 2010. Central Valley General Hospital now houses obstetrics and birthing services, and Hanford emergency services are consolidated at Adventist Medical Center – Hanford.
The name of Selma Community Hospital was changed in 2011 to Adventist Medical Center – Selma, to reflect the shared license with Adventist Medical Center – Hanford, the unity of Adventist Health services throughout the Valley and the hospital’s emerging role as a regional health care resource.
The Central Valley Network now offers 18 Community Care clinic sites in Kings County, southern Fresno County and northern Tulare County as well as physical therapy centers, a Sleep Apnea Center and many other services in the 2,500-square-mile region.
