San Joaquin Community Hospital is a 255-bed acute care hospitals located in the heart of Bakersfield, Calif. at the southern edge of the San Joaquin Valley. A member of Adventist Health, the hospital's mission is to share God's love with our community by providing physical, mental and spiritual healing.
Since opening in 1910, SJCH has achieved a number of Bakersfield hospital "firsts", including:
-The first hospital to perform open-heart surgery
-The first hospital to have both a nationally accredited chest pain center and nationally certified stroke center under one roof.
-The first hospital to have a full-treatment Grossman Burn Center
-The first hospital to have an ADA Certified Diabetes Education Program
-The first hospital with a Gold Standard Bariatrics Program
-The first hospital with a smoke-free campus
-The first hospital with a 64-slice CT Scanner
For more information, please visit www.sjch.us or call 661-395-3000.
