Kaweah Health closes Transitional Care center on Court St
Kaweah Health’s Transitional Care Center on Court St has been closed. Transitional Care provides patients that have had an illness or injury with a place to receive continued skilled nursing care after leaving the hospital. All of the remaining patients either transferred home to family members or to other facilities, say staff. The district still offers a Skilled Nursing Facility at Kaweah Health
Kaweh Health plans Crisis Stabilization Unit
A Child and Adolescent Crisis Stabilization Unit is being planned by Kaweah Health inNorth Visalia.
The hospital is under contract to buy the Boy Scouts building in north Visalia. A staff report says the building is ideal, as is the location for this CSU. We hope to close after the first of the year and get started with permitting for the renovations.Located in North Visalia submarket, 230 NW 3rd Avenue was built in 2007 and consists of 5,012± square feet of professional o ce space constructed on 18,295± square feet of land.
New Mental Health Wellness Center
Kaweah Health’s new Mental Wellness Center is targeting opening in February 2023 at 301 Noble Ave In Visalia.
Kaweah Health will expand mental health hospital on Akers
The California Department Health announced that Kaweah Health will receive $8.78 million to add a new 8600sf, 22-bed wing at their Mental Health hospital on Akers in Visalia.The new wing will serve teens and children with psychiatric care. The new complex should be open by 2025. “We’re grateful for the state grant to expand much needed mental health services in the County” said Marc Mertz, Chief Strategy Officer.
Fastrip gets green light on Mooney gas station
Bakersfield-based Fastrip oil company will move forward on their 24-pump fueling station and convenience store on Mooney at Whitendale in Visalia, says Jim Davis, VP Real Estate for Fastrip. The company got the green light for the Visalia Planning Commission December 12. The company purchased corner property that was the Toys-R-Us building and parking lot.
The gas station 3.7 acre project does not include the Toys-R-Us building or lot to the south of it. A furniture company has expressed interest in it among others, says Davis.
Top 4 gas stations in California
Chevron, Shell and 76 are the largest gas stations in California in 2022 based on the number of locations. Chevron has the most number of locations with 1,805 locations across 575 cities. Shell has 1,168 and 76 has 961 locations in California. These three together make 81.62% of the top 10 gas stations in California.
Sold listing down 11.8% in Visalia last year
The Tulare County MLS reports that sold listings fell 11.8% in 2022 vs 2021 with 1618 single family homes changing hands vs 1835 in 2021 .The average sales price was $416,157 vs 369,611, an increase of 12.5%. Sold listings in Tulare also fell 11.3% and the average sales price increased by7.8% to $321,411.
In December 2022 the active listings numbered 197 in Visalia -more than double the number in December 2021 at 47.