Earlier this month, one of our community health partners, Cultiva La Salud, received a Social Influencer Grant to help ensure that students of Fresno County schools had access to healthy foods. When COVID-19 hit in March and the county mandated school closures, Saint Agnes asked Cultiva to repurpose its funding to help provide families with the essential resources they needed. Please take a few moments to watch this powerful video Cultiva created to showcase the impact of their new program. We’re proud to continue supporting the important life-changing work of Cultiva.

Whether it’s a loved one, a neighbor, or even a patient, we’ve all encountered people who are struggling to provide for their families. Residents of Fresno County face a number of significant health challenges, including homelessness, food insecurity, access to care, and mental health. If you believe that everyone has the right to a standard of living that promotes health and well-being in all areas of life regardless of socioeconomic factors, then it’s crucial that you TAKE ACTION to help make access to health care and necessary services possible in our community.

More than any public health event in our nation’s history, COVID-19 has made clear that our health care delivery system is failing to meet the needs of all people. But we need your help to make a difference. That’s why Saint Agnes has joined Care for the Common Good. Join us and TAKE ACTION. Let’s make access to health care and necessary social services possible in our community.

More than any public health event in our nation’s history, COVID-19 has made clear that our health care delivery system is failing to meet the needs of all people. We believe that everyone has the right to a standard of living that promotes health and well-being in all areas of life, including access to food, clothing, stable housing, medical care and critical social services, regardless of socioeconomic factors. That’s why Saint Agnes has joined Care for the Common Good – a health advocacy initiative, created by Trinity Health, that seeks to make affordable and accessible health care possible for everyone in our country.

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week (Aug. 1-7) Saint Agnes and Mothers Milk Bank of San Jose have been hard at work collecting donations of breast milk for this year’s Virtual Breast Milk Drive. Though we aren’t able to collect donations in person this year, that hasn’t stopped generous moms from mailing in donations. One mom even donated 1,600 ounces – enough to feed a full-term newborn baby for 133 days! Thanks to all of the moms who have donated so far. If you or someone you know is interested in donating, there’s still time!

After several years of planning and negotiations, on July 13, Saint Agnes Medical Center announced that it has officially entered into a new partnership with Dignity Health, United Surgical Partners International and the current physician owners of Fresno Surgical Hospital. The partners will jointly own and operate Fresno Surgical Hospital and Summit Surgical.

Help Saint Agnes and Mothers’ Milk Bank give our Valley’s tiniest infants the best start in life through the provision of human breast milk. While the Breast Milk Drive is usually held during World Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1-7, thanks to Mothers’ Milk Bank of San Jose, you can start donating today! If you or someone you know is interested in donating, call 1-877-375-6645 to start the screening process.

Saint Agnes received $225,000 in grant funds from the Office of the California Surgeon General (CA-OSG) and the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to participate in the state’s ACEs Aware initiative. Saint Agnes will be conducting various provider engagement and communications activities to promote the ACEs Aware initiative among the Medi-Cal provider community in Fresno County and its surrounding service areas.