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Valley Children’s Awarded for Outstanding Quality & Safety

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MADERA — Valley Children’s Hospital has been named a 2024 Leapfrog Top Children’s Hospital by the Leapfrog Group. As one of only eight children’s hospitals nationwide–and the only one in California–to receive this honor, Valley Children’s continues to set the benchmark for quality care and patient safety. A Prestigious Recognition Firstly, the Leapfrog Top Children’s Hospital award ranks among the ...

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Guilds’ $12M Pledge to Strengthen Children’s Care Programs

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MADERA — The Guilds of Valley Children’s have announced a historic commitment to two new endowments totaling $12 million. The endowments aim to expand critical pediatric care services and strengthen community health initiatives. This pledge comes as the Guilds celebrate exceeding $5 million for the Guilds Center for Community Health Endowment. Significant Investments in Pediatric Health Notably, the Guild Center ...

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Valley Children’s Ensures Energy Resiliency With New Project

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MADERA COUNTY — Valley Children’s Healthcare has started a groundbreaking solar microgrid to make the hospital more energy efficient and sustainable.  The new system will include solar panels, fuel cells, and battery storage. Therefore, giving the hospital the ability to generate, store, and distribute its own electricity.  This will not only reduce the hospital’s need for fossil fuels but also ...

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First Annual Wildfire Safety Saturday

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OAKHURST–In conjunction with California Wildfire Preparedness Week, The First Annual Wildfire Safety Saturday will be taking place this weekend in Oakhurst. Several local agencies and organizations will be present, and participants will have the opportunity to receive information on a variety of issues related to wildfires. WHEN: Saturday, May 6th, 2023 10:00 am to 4:00 pm WHERE: Enterprise Parking Lot ...

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La Sierra Guild to Hold 24th Annual Cinco de Mayo Luncheon

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OAKHURST — La Sierra Guild of Valley Children’s Hospital will be holding it’s annual Cinco de Mayo Luncheon at the Oakhurst Community Center. El Cid’s Mexican Cuisine will be providing a meal of enchiladas, rice, beans, chips, and salsa. There will be lots of raffle prizes as well as a door prize. La Sierra Guild is a non profit organization, all proceeds ...

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Helping One Woman (HOW) to Honor Bettie Perry

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OAKHURST — Join Helping One Woman Oakhurst for their second dinner of 2023 when they will honor their February recipient, Bettie Perry. Bettie is lovingly sponsored by Cheryce Chartier. ♥ This month’s Helping One Woman (HOW) recipient is Bettie Perry and her HOW dinner will be Wednesday, February 15th at 6 p.m. at The Hitchin’ Post in Ahwahnee. See map below. When: ...

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Dinner On Ducey’s Deck For Children’s Hospital

BASS LAKE — What better way to spend a Sunday evening in September than enjoying a meal with friends while helping to raise money for an essential cause? Here’s an opportunity for just such a pleasure, as the local guild of Valley Children’s Hospital invites people to attend a fundraising dinner at Ducey’s on the Lake. The special event takes place ...

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La Sierra Guild Luncheon And Basket Raffle

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OAKHURST — La Sierra Guild is celebrating their 20th Annual Cinco de Mayo Luncheon and Basket Raffle on Friday, May 4, with all proceeds to benefit Valley Children’s Hospital. This year’s event will be held at the Oakhurst Community Center from 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., and El Cid Restaurant is preparing delicious food for the luncheon. The meal includes ...

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Join The Fun: La Sierra Guild Membership Drive

OAKHURST — Looking for an exceptionally important way to give back, working with a well-oiled nonprofit that helps youth throughout the mountain areas and in the valley, as well? La Sierra Guild of Valley Children’s Hospital invites the community to come out for their March general meeting and Annual Membership Drive at Oakhurst Lutheran Church on Wednesday, Mar. 14, at ...

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Gaming Project Brings Toys To Valley Children’s

O’NEALS — Minarets senior Justin Hough was inspired by an earlier graduate’s Senior Legacy Experience (SLE), but limited in the ways he could reinvent it, because SLEs cannot be “recycled,” and Justin’s SLE was already decided. Still, he wanted to recreate this cool event to help a good cause, so Justin turned to the Key Club to help out. Every ...

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