The recent ordinance proposals in Porterville require schools to notify parents if their children express a desire to use different pronouns, allowing parents to sue for non-compliance. Concurrently, the Madera Community Hospital, which shut down earlier in 2023 due to financial difficulties, plans to reopen under new management, providing relief to a region struggling with a shortage of medical care. The closure had significant effects, leaving only one hospital operational in Madera County, leading to longer travel times for patients seeking urgent care, highlighting the critical need for additional hospital beds in the area.
The ordinance would require teachers and school officials to notify parents if their children want to use different pronouns. It would also allow parents to sue the school or the district if the schools refuse to notify parents about the change.
Even though Madera Community is a smaller hospital, just the small impact of that closure on other hospitals is significant because the other hospitals are already completely over capacity almost every day.
What (the closure) told us, and has really identified even as a larger issue, is that we just don't have enough beds in the Valley.
Patients in Madera and the surrounding rural area needed to make longer drives - or take longer ambulance rides - to hospitals in Fresno.
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