During the early 50?s, Bakersfield Memorial Hospital was founded by citizen leaders and healthcare professionals who brought about a campaign, and provided the means to make available a healthcare hospital for the community; when it opened its doors for the first time, it had 112-beds and the service of specialists and volunteers, giving it the name and reputation it has nowadays: a successful and growing healthcare service.
This facility now provides the community with more than 250 beds with general acute service, besides the 45 specialty intensive care, 13 surgery rooms, an emergency room totally equipped with up-to-date technology, and post-anesthesia care. Other exceptional healthcare services are a birthing canter, 4 cardiac catheterization labs, out patient surgery, and self-supporting behavioral health chemical dependency facility.
As part of the Catholic Healthcare West system, the philosophy of Bakersfield Memorial Hospital centers on the service to the community, supplying the needs of patients with high quality and reasonably priced healthcare under the mission of caring for the fellow people who search for the healing of Jesus Christ. By delivering compassionate care and excellent attention even to those in despair, with any kind of economical problem, the services at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital expand to those communities where poverty is a daily condition; the values that BMH includes into its service are dignity, collaboration, justice, stewardship and excellence.
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital is very proud to contribute to the improvement of health inside the community through other means, focused to the education of patients and public in general; therefore, they categorize the service to the community into three sections: community programs, support groups, and volunteering. The community programs serve in Kern County and the programs include: daily meal program, cancer detection, and homework club, where academic and cultural activities are developed for disadvantaged neighborhoods. If you are looking for volunteering opportunities, at BMH you can get involved with educational services for the community, for your personal growth and reward and the bequest of your aid to the residents.
All the benefits and services at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital are available for you!