{"id":304642,"date":"2026-05-07T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304642\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:22:11","slug":"kern-medical-re-verified-as-top-trauma-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/304642\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern Medical re-verified as top trauma center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The American College of Surgeons has re-verified Kern Medical as a top trauma center, recognizing the hospital for meeting strict national standards for treating severely injured patients.<\/p>\n<p>Experts from around the country reviewed the hospital to confirm it has the right resources and staff to meet those standards.<\/p>\n<p>Research shows patients treated at verified centers have a lower risk of death.<\/p>\n<p>Kern Medical is one of the busiest trauma centers in Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0story\u00a0was\u00a0reported\u00a0on-air\u00a0by\u00a0a\u00a0journalist\u00a0and\u00a0has\u00a0been\u00a0converted\u00a0to\u00a0this\u00a0platform\u00a0with\u00a0the\u00a0assistance\u00a0of\u00a0AI.\u00a0Our\u00a0editorial\u00a0team\u00a0verifies\u00a0all\u00a0reporting\u00a0on\u00a0all\u00a0platforms\u00a0for\u00a0fairness\u00a0and\u00a0accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The American College of Surgeons has re-verified Kern Medical as a top trauma center,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[128402,151,155,153,152,128405,128403,162,27981,128404,128406,128407],"class_list":["post-304642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-american-college-of-surgeons","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-hospital-accreditation","tag-kern-county-hospital","tag-kern-county-news","tag-kern-medical","tag-southern-california-trauma-center","tag-trauma-care","tag-trauma-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}