1700 Mount Vernon Avenue, Bakersfield, CA, 93306 · (661) 326-2000
Beds
222
FY 2025
Star rating
1 of 5
Patient survey: 2 of 5
Net patient revenue
$307.2M
FY 2025
Net income
$3.8M
Patient care margin -93.4%
Discharges
11,004
Occupancy 78.9%
Clinicians
278
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $307.2M | $594.1M | -93.4% | $3.8M | 11,004 | $15.4M | 7.3% | 19.1% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 11.5% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.4% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 17.7% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 13.1% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 21% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 20.6% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $288.2M | $550.1M | -90.9% | $1.3M | 11,923 | $17.5M | 7.8% | 23.5% |
| 2023 | $273.2M | $508.1M | -86.0% | $2.8M | 11,517 | $24.7M | 9.3% | 24.1% |
| 2022 | $273.7M | $478.8M | -74.9% | $141.5M | 11,369 | $16.7M | 7.7% | 27.8% |
| 2021 | $248.1M | $455.7M | -83.7% | $32.4M | 11,650 | $18.7M | 8.1% | 40.4% |
| 2020 | $451.4M | $428.9M | 5.0% | $42.2M | 10,343 | $15.7M | 8.9% | 37.1% |
| US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.8% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.01 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.30 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.48 · better |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.46 | US median 0.72 |
| Surgical site infections after hysterectomy (ratio to expected) | 0.69 | US median 0.81 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 1.03 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 1.02 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 69% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 69% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 2 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 32% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 61% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 64% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 60% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 11% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 306 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 8% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 37% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 66% | US median 79% |
| 23 |
| $35,933.61 |
| $13,277.39 |
| $7,177.67 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 19 | $24,610.05 | $11,130.74 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 101 SEIZURES WITHOUT MCC | 16 | $35,521.00 | $12,436.75 | $7,312.59 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 15 | $35,398.20 | $11,034.67 | $5,829.71 |
| DRG 638 DIABETES WITH CC | 14 | $21,284.79 | $11,975.86 | $6,926.41 |
| DRG 917 POISONING AND TOXIC EFFECTS OF DRUGS WITH MCC | 13 | $64,201.23 | $21,702.85 | $13,880.41 |
| DRG 603 CELLULITIS WITHOUT MCC | 12 | $26,739.42 | $12,136.67 | $6,446.25 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 12 | $30,821.33 | $12,161.00 | $6,629.69 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 50 | 47 | $2,625.18 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 41 | 36 | $3,061.74 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5374 Level 4 Urology and Related Services | 35 | 30 | $3,348.64 | $2,629.24 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 29 | 18 | $1,827.76 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5375 Level 5 Urology and Related Services | 26 | 24 | $4,970.24 | $3,917.51 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 22 | 22 | $6,973.95 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 19 | 18 | $1,515.87 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5184 Level 4 Vascular Procedures | 19 | 16 | $5,268.66 | $3,945.82 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 19 | 19 | $5,542.38 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5165 Level 5 ENT Procedures | 17 | 17 | $5,615.45 | $4,436.36 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 17 | 17 | $1,956.45 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 16 | 15 | $14,203.10 | $10,771.69 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
Kern Medical Center is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Bakersfield, CA with 222 beds and a 1-star overall rating.
Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, CA has 222 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report). It discharged 11,004 inpatients that year, with 78.9% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Kern Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $307.2M and operating expenses of $594.1M, a margin on patient care of -93.4%. After other income and expenses its net income was $3.8M (0.6% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Kern Medical Center is not part of a multi-hospital health system in the official ownership records. It is a government-owned hospital (Government (hospital district)).
Kern Medical Center has an overall rating of 1 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 2 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Kern Medical Center provides emergency services.
278 Medicare clinicians list Kern Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Kern Medical Center had 233 Medicare inpatient stays in 10 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 885 (psychoses) with 61 stays; Medicare paid $17,584.66 per stay on average, compared with $11,869.17 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $55K in payments to Kern Medical Center as a teaching hospital ($55K general and - for research) from 7 companies.