Healthy Partnership

Kern Medical and Adventist Health – A partnership for a healthier Bakersfield

Together, the largest healthcare coalition in Kern County working to elevate the health and well-being of our community.

Kern Medical and Adventist Health, have combined their strengths to see immediate avenues to expand patient care. Even more than that, they share a vision to elevate healthcare in the county through what this partnership brings. The impact to Kern County residents will be positive – better care, improved access, and the availability to more physicians, while keeping the ability to choose the physician and hospital they have always used.

The partnership, giving each health system the ability to tap the resources of the other, will create the largest healthcare coalition in Kern County, with more than 30 locations, over 4,500 healthcare professionals, and more than a 1,000 physicians and physicians-in-training. Together we are committed to serve our community by combining our strengths and to bring the best healthcare to Kern County.

+30
Growing Locations
+4,500
Over Healthcare Professionals
+1,000
More than Physicians & Physicians-in-Training

Kern Medical Specialties & Services

  • Only designated Level II trauma center for Kern County and also serves as a tertiary medical center (222 beds)
  • UCLA-affiliated teaching hospital
  • Kern Medical trains more than 200 medical students, residents and fellows annually
  • Graduate medical education programs in the specialties of:
    • Emergency Medicine
    • Internal Medicine
    • Obstetrics & Gynecology
    • Psychiatry
    • Pharmacy
  • Fellowship programs in Child & Adolescent and Addiction, Psychiatry and Infectious Disease
  • Accredited stroke center
  • Twelve outpatient clinics for nearly 180,000 patients
  • Two mobile medical units
  • Simulation center for medical education

Adventist Health Specialties & Services

  • A faith-based, nonprofit health system serving West Coast and Hawaii communities with over 20 hospitals, 37,000 associates, physicians, allied health professionals and volunteers
  • Three hospitals across Kern County: Bakersfield (254 beds), Delano (156 beds) and Tehachapi (25 beds)
  • Over 20 medical offices
  • Four outpatient imaging centers
  • Two mobile medical units
  • Comprehensive cancer center
    • Clinical research site
    • Only triple accredited program in Kern County
  • Bariatric surgery COE
  • Brain and Spine Institute
  • Robotic surgery
  • Four outpatient rehabilitation clinics
  • Wound care center
  • Wellness center