Kern Medical Center Foundation

Since 1867, Kern Medical has provided care for our local community.  For nearly 150 years the dedicated team at Kern Medical has been at the heart of healthcare for Kern County.  The Kern Medical Foundation was recently established to help carry on the tradition of quality, compassionate care close to home.

Located in the heart of Kern County, Kern Medical provides the only Trauma Center for more than 100 miles in any direction.

The County of Kern owns and operates Kern Medical, a 222-licensed bed general acute care teaching hospital.  Historically, given its designation as a public, safety net provider, Kern Medical has served an integral role within the community, caring for the most socially and medically vulnerable residents of Kern County.  Kern Medical’s outpatient clinics offer many services unavailable elsewhere within the community.  

Kern Medical is an academically-based medical center affiliated with the UCLA School of Medicine.  Offering the only hospital-based residency in the county, Kern Medical trains 115 residents and fellows per year in the fields of Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Psychiatry, while concurrently providing training to over 140 medical students from the Ross University School of Medicine.

As a whole, Kern Medical provides care for approximately 12,000 inpatients, 45,000 Emergency Department visits, 5,600 surgeries, and 110,000 general and specialty clinic visits annually.