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Kern Medical

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Kern Medical provides mental health care in Bakersfield, CA, with outpatient and hospital inpatient services. People seeking care can access cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Payment options include private health insurance, Medicaid, and Medicare.

1700 Mount Vernon Avenue, Bakersfield, CA, 93306

Services & treatment options

Treatment

Type of Care

  • Mental health treatment
  • Substance use treatment
  • Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children

Care setting

  • Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient
  • Outpatient
Pharmacotherapies
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
  • Aripiprazole
  • Chlorpromazine
  • Clozapine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Lurasidone
  • Nicotine replacement
  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
  • Olanzapine
  • Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
  • Paliperidone
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone

Treatment Approaches

  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale
  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Electroconvulsive therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
Emergency Mental Health Services
  • Psychiatric emergency onsite services
Assessment/Pre-treatment
  • Screening for tobacco use
Testing
  • HIV testing
  • Laboratory testing
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • STD testing
  • TB screening
  • Testing for Hepatitis B (HBV)
  • Testing for Hepatitis C (HCV)

Who we help

Special Programs/Groups Offered
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Clients with HIV or AIDS
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
  • Members of military families
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
  • Seniors or older adults
  • Veterans
  • Young adults

Age Groups Accepted

  • Adults
  • Seniors
  • Young Adults

Payment & insurance

Payment and insurance

  • County or local government funds
  • Federal military insurance (e.g., TRICARE)
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private health insurance
  • State corrections or juvenile justice funds
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • U.S. Department of VA funds

Support services

Education and Counseling Services
  • Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Language Services
  • Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
Ancillary Services
  • Assertive community treatment
  • Assisted Outpatient Treatment
  • Case management service
  • Court-ordered outpatient treatment
  • Diet and exercise counseling
  • Education services
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Intensive case management
  • Suicide prevention services

About the center

Facility Type
  • Separate inpatient psychiatric unit of a general hospital
Facility operation
  • Local, county, or community government
Facility Smoking Policy
  • Smoking not permitted
Facility Vaping Policy
  • Vaping not permitted