{"id":145057,"date":"2026-01-22T19:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145057\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T19:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:06:07","slug":"could-adventist-sante-reach-a-deal-before-deadline-hospital-is-hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145057\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Adventist, Sant\u00e9 Reach a Deal Before Deadline? Hospital Is ‘Hopeful’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a GV Wire report<\/a>, an Adventist Health executive says he is \u201chopeful\u201d a deal will be reached with Sant\u00e9 Health System before a February deadline, meaning 2,600 people in Fresno and Kings counties will be able to keep their current providers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the end goal out of all of this is for the patients to be able to continue to see that provider that they\u2019ve created a relationship with.\u201d \u2014 Kiyoshi Tomono, partnership executive with Adventist Health <\/p>\n

Both the hospital and the physician network recently announced that a deal between the two had fallen apart, meaning people who had signed up for Sant\u00e9\u2019s plans would not be able to use Adventist Health as their providers.<\/p>\n

However, Kiyoshi Tomono, partnership executive with Adventist Health, said on Thursday that talks between the two are still happening and an agreement could be reached before Feb. 15, when the plan is set to expire.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am hopeful that both sides will be able to reach some kind of agreement,\u201d Tomono said. \u201cThat\u2019s kind of the challenge in all of this and part of the frustration with the patients is, they need to be notified that this change is coming, but you also don\u2019t want to create unnecessary worry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I would hope at the very end of all this, we\u2019re able to reach an agreement and then there will hopefully be no disruption in patient care.\u201d<\/p>\n

A request for comment on the latest developments made to Sant\u00e9 on Thursday morning was not immediately returned.<\/p>\n

Adventist Health the Only Provider for Many Rural Communities<\/p>\n

Late last year, the two groups began renegotiating on a renewed contract as ongoing agreements, such as the one with Sant\u00e9, need to be constantly reviewed, Tomono said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like everybody else, as inflation and things get more expensive, we have to renegotiate the terms of our contract that may have been in place for years and years,\u201d Tomono said.<\/p>\n

This month, Adventist Health posted on its website that the deal had fallen apart and the contract would end Feb. 15.<\/p>\n

Social media groups in Kings County began circulating the official announcements. Adventist Health\u2019s hospitals and clinics are, for many communities, the only health care provider nearby.<\/p>\n

While Sant\u00e9 said the announcement caught them off-guard, Tomono said negotiations have been ongoing with a call between the two occurring Wednesday. He said media reports added \u201curgency\u201d to the talks.<\/p>\n

Tomono said the two groups want patients to be able to keep their Adventist Health provider.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the end goal out of all of this is for the patients to be able to continue to see that provider that they\u2019ve created a relationship with \u2026 that has been now following their wellbeing or health journey over the last 10 years,\u201d Tomono said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a GV Wire report, an Adventist Health executive says he is \u201chopeful\u201d a deal will be reached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-145057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}