New Advanced Infusion Center location looks to 'help the community'
May 2—Advanced Infusion Center celebrated the grand opening of its new location in Yuba City last week.
The center is a physician-owned outpatient center that offers the administration of different intravenous medications and subcutaneous injections to treat various medical conditions, and the center plans to start seeing patients at the new location starting May 15.
An internal medicine doctor with Advanced Infusion Center, Chandan Cheema, said that a lot of patients at their primary office in Sacramento were coming from the Yuba-Sutter area to Sacramento.
"So we thought that for convenience for the patients and to take care of the infusion needs in this community, we need to come here," Cheema said. "So we started looking for the right spot, and this was the right spot eventually. Because a lot of the medical community is around here, and they have patients that need these kinds of treatments, but they have to go to distant hospitals to get those infusions done."
These are the patients who have chronic illnesses, Cheema said.
"It's very difficult for them to travel to distant places," Cheema said. "Since we were seeing some patients from here, we knew that there are more patients like that here who are not going to these centers and not getting the best treatment. So it was like bringing the center to them, to the community — good for them and us."
Cheema said the center provides complex medications that cannot be given in a general office as a prescription because they are difficult to find and require procuring and storing them. Advanced Infusion Center also not only gives the medications but also monitors patients.
He said that many of their patients have diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, dementia, ulcerative colitis and osteoporosis. On its website, the center has a list of conditions for which it does infusions and infusion therapies it provides.
"When a patient is prescribed medications intravenously, he or she needs to receive treatment through a needle or catheter for long-term periods typically. The administration of this technique is known as Infusion Therapy. This process can take one or more hours depending on the treatment," according to Advanced Infusion Center's website.
According to the center's director of business development, Jeanna Arnold, Cheema is big on what the community needs.
"So, if we are hearing in the community that, hey, would you be interested? Or can you do this? We'd absolutely look at it and see if it's a service that we could provide," Arnold said. "So it's not just necessarily what's on the brochure, or what's on the website. But give us a call, and let's see what we can do to help the community."
In terms of community feedback, the center has already received communications from people who have wanted a new location to open.
"They've been anxiously awaiting our opening," Arnold said. "It's weekly that we get, 'Are you guys open yet? Are you guys open yet? We can't wait. There's a need. I take time off of work to take my loved one all the way down to Sacramento, so this is going to help us tremendously.'"
Arnold said that Advanced Infusion Center is home-like.
"Some infusion therapies can take several hours to complete. That's why we offer complimentary blankets, snacks, free wi-fi, depending on your treatment time. Your comfort matters to us," according to the Advanced Infusion Center's website.
Cheema said that he is passionate about giving treatment to diseases that are very difficult to treat and seeing patients get better and enjoy the quality of life that they deserve.
The new Advanced Infusion Center is in Yuba City at 1015 Plumas St., Suite 1300B.
