Community Regional Medical Center and UCSF Fresno have secured grant funding for Armando Alvarez II as a gang intervention specialist to meet with willing patients who end up in the emergency department because of their association with gangs.

Community Regional Medical Center and UCSF Fresno have secured grant funding for Armando Alvarez II as a gang intervention specialist to meet with willing patients who end up in the emergency department because of their association with gangs.
At Community Medical Centers’ downtown trauma center and busy emergency room, nurses have learned to take second looks at patients, listen deeply for what’s being said – and not said – and to have a sixth sense about unseen traumas.
Community Regional and Clovis Community Medical Center are among five hospitals in Fresno County receiving additional grant funding for the state’s new Behavioral Health Pilot Project.