The 137-bed Pacific Gardens Medical Center seeks to hire 100 qualified and unqualified nurses and other employees, including food services and concierge workers.
Newly hired employees will assist staff in the facility’s emergency room, intensive care unit, and coronavirus treatment unit.
The hospital must also cover places in its pharmacy, surgery and radiology departments, officials said.
Marilyn Evans of Pasadena hopes to be among those to be hired. He has recently been working with COVID-19 patients.
“They’re in there, we’re constantly with Facetiming with the families or on the phone with the families, it makes it a little difficult, but for that we are, to give them some kind of hope and tell them to move on.” , she said.
The medical center, which had closed in 2017 after struggling financially, reopened earlier this week as part of the effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the surrounding community. The new hospital owners spent more than $ 20 million on the renovation.
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“It’s a massive undertaking,” said David Diamond, a spokesman for the facility. “It requires all of our support staff. There are heroes in this building. They are people who have given up a large part of their own personal lives for something they believe is incredibly important to the community.”
The facility expects to have a full staff by mid-April. Evans knows that this opportunity for her can also help a struggling community.
“There’s a demand and I’m meeting them every day. I beg you to keep me healthy to go to work,” Evans said.
Saturday’s job fair ended, but more applications were accepted Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Pacific Medical Medical Center, 21530 South Pioneer Boulevard, Hawaiian Gardens.
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