On January 12, 2022, the City of Orange confirmed that it plans to expand its water well and treatment facility immediately adjacent to AmeriPharma Infusion Center in utter disregard for grave patient and employee safety concerns. 

The projected several-months construction will render the Infusion Center unsafe for patients, causing detrimental harm to their health.

This construction project will create a dangerous environment for Infusion Center patients in the following ways and more:

1. The construction will produce loud noise above 80 dBA (louder than a diesel truck going 50mph at 50 feet or a food blender at three feet).
2. The shaking that results from construction will make it risky for healthcare workers to perform intravenous injections in the infusion center as the needle may move during insertion.
3. Potential debris from the construction site can expose vulnerable patients (many infusion patients are often immunocompromised) to possible infection.

The infusion center will, in turn, not be able to operate effectively during the 6 to 7 (minimum) months of construction, denying thousands of patients who require regular infusions to manage their conditions.

A noisy, disruptive, months-long construction project adjacent to a healthcare facility is something AmeriPharma, its healthcare workers, and patients find completely unacceptable. 

At a minimum, AmeriPharma aims to provide patients with access to safe, consistent, high-quality infusion care. Maintaining an optimal infusion/injection experience in a safe and calm environment is of paramount importance to achieving this goal. 

The City was initially exploring several possible locations for its water-treatment facility and can easily choose an alternate site. Plowing ahead with its current plans and neglecting the grave consequences of local Orange County patients who are already contending with life-threatening illnesses is both immoral and unnecessary.  

Because this planned construction will take place on County land, the County can stop the city from moving forward with this ill-conceived project. 

We ask the County of Orange not to participate in this grave wrongdoing by not permitting the City of Orange to construct its well on its land adjacent to AmeriPharma. We demand the City of Orange to choose an alternate site for the construction of its Well 9 filtration facility. 

We ask that members of our community speak out against this poorly planned project that will cause irreversible harm, hardship, and great economic damage to thousands of patients and hundreds of healthcare workers.

Throughout the global pandemic, AmeriPharma’s healthcare workers were hailed as heroes for selflessly providing care for their patients, often at great risk to themselves and their families. Now, these same heroes have become disposable to the City of Orange. 

This moral outrage must be stopped. Tell the City of Orange not to evict its healthcare heroes and allow them to continue caring for the most vulnerable patients in our population.

Thousands of patients facing care disruptions: Stop the City of Orange's Well 9 construction plan!