KERN MEDICAL CENTER
NPI 1093243255
General Acute Care Hospital in Bakersfield, CA

NPI Status: Active since May 31, 2017

Contact Information

17695 INDUSTRIAL FARM RD
BAKERSFIELD, CA
ZIP 93308
Phone: (661) 391-7913
Fax: (661) 391-7386

NPI Profile Information
Primary Taxonomy
Authorized Official
CLIA Information
NPI Validation
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Organization
General Acute Care Hospital
CLIA Number: 05D0586435
CLIA Cert. Type: Hospital
CLIA Exp. Date: 02-27-2027

About KERN MEDICAL CENTER

This page provides the complete NPI Profile along with additional information for Kern Medical Center, a provider established in Bakersfield, California operating as a General Acute Care Hospital. The healthcare provider is registered in the NPI registry with number 1093243255 assigned on May 2017. The practitioner's primary taxonomy code is 282N00000X with license number 120000182 (CA). The provider is registered as an organization and their NPI record was last updated 9 years ago. The provider's other name is Kern Medical Center. The authorized official of this NPI record is Andrew Cantu (Cfo)

NPI: 1093243255
Provider Legal Name: KERN COUNTY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY
Other Organization Name: KERN MEDICAL CENTER
Other Name Type: Other Name (5)
Entity Type: Organization
Location Address: 17695 INDUSTRIAL FARM RD BAKERSFIELD, CA 93308
Location Phone: (661) 391-7913
Location Fax: (661) 391-7386
Mailing Address: 1700 MOUNT VERNON AVE BAKERSFIELD, CA 93306
Mailing Phone: (661) 326-2000
Mailing Fax: (661) 391-7386
Is Sole Proprietor?: No
Is Organization Subpart?: No
Enumeration Date: 05-31-2017
Last Update Date: 05-31-2017
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Specialty - Primary Taxonomy

The NPI enumerator requires providers to submit at least one taxonomy code. A taxonomy code is a unique 10-character code that describes the healthcare provider type, classification, and the area of specialization. There could be only one primary taxonomy code per NPI record. For individual NPIs the license data is associated to the taxonomy code.

Classification: General Acute Care Hospital
Taxonomy Code: 282N00000X
Type: Hospitals
License No.: 120000182
License State: CA
Taxonomy Description: An acute general hospital is an institution whose primary function is to provide inpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions, both surgical and non-surgical, to a wide population group. The hospital treats patients in an acute phase of illness or injury, characterized by a single episode or a fairly short duration, from which the patient returns to his or her normal or previous level of activity.

Authorized Official

The authorized official is the designated individual with the legal authority to make changes to the provider’s official NPI record. For organizations, the authorized official must be a general partner, chairman of the board, CEO, CFO or a direct owner holding at least a 5 percent stake in the medical organization.

Authorized Official Name: ANDREW CANTU
Authorized Official Title: CFO
Authorized Official Phone: (661) 326-2104

CLIA Information

The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) of 1988 applies to facilities or sites that test human specimens for health assessment or to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease. The CLIA Program sets standards for clinical laboratory testing and issues certificates. The NPI / CLIA crosswalk information for this NPI number is:

CLIA Number: 05D0586435
Facility Type: Hospital
Certificate Effective Date: February 28, 2025
Certificate Expiration Date: February 27, 2027
Laboratory Director: DR. GIAN A. YAKOUB
Certificate Type: Certificate of Accreditation
Certificate Type Description: This is a CLIA certificate is issued to Kern Medical Center on the basis of the laboratory's accreditation by an accreditation organization approved by CMS. This type of certificate is issued to a laboratories tha perform nonwaived (moderate and/or high complexity) testing.

NPI NPI Number Validation

How NPI Validation Works

The NPI validation process uses the ISO-standard Luhn algorithm, a mathematical "handshake", to ensure that a provider's 10-digit ID is authentic and free of common typing errors.

To verify the NPI 1093243255, we treat the final digit (5) as the Check Digit—the target answer we need to reach. The process begins by taking the first nine digits and adding a constant value of 24, which accounts for the "80840" prefix required for all U.S. health identifiers. We then double every other digit starting from the right and sum the individual digits of those results together. For this specific NPI, that total comes to 55. The final step is to find the difference between that total and the next multiple of ten (60 - 55 = 5).

Digit-by-digit view

Use the first nine digits for the calculation. Starting from the right, double every other digit. The last digit is the check digit and is not part of the calculation.

Pos 1

Doubled → 2

Pos 2

Unchanged

Pos 3

Doubled → 18 → 1 + 8

Pos 4

Unchanged

Pos 5

Doubled → 4

Pos 6

Unchanged

Pos 7

Doubled → 6

Pos 8

Unchanged

Pos 9

Doubled → 10 → 1 + 0

Check

Target digit

Regular digit Doubled digit Check digit

Step 1: Double every other digit from the right

Starting with the rightmost digit of the first nine digits, double every other value. If doubling creates a two-digit number, add those digits together.

1 → 2 9 → 18 → 9 2 → 4 3 → 6 5 → 10 → 1

Step 2: Add all digits plus the NPI constant

Add the transformed values, the unchanged digits, and the constant 24.

2 + 0 + 1 + 8 + 3 + 4 + 4 + 6 + 2 + 1 + 0 + 24 = 55

Step 3: Find the amount needed to reach the next multiple of 10

The next multiple of ten after 55 is 60. The difference is the calculated check digit.

60 - 55 = 5

This NPI is valid

The calculated check digit is 5, which matches the last digit of 1093243255.