Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Foundation

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Foundation’s mission is to contribute to the quality of life for the people in our community by funding healthcare technology and services at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1981 to raise funds for the first patient tower at Memorial Hospital which opened in 1987. Since then, the BMH Foundation has grown and established many worthy projects and raised millions of dollars, all to assist the hospital, its employees and most importantly of all - the patients.

As a result of sustained local support over the years, BMH has continued to grow to meet the needs of the community.  Numerous expansion and remodeling projects were completed through the years, culminating in 1989 with the construction of a six-story patient care tower and a single story birthing center.  These improvements built BMH into the regional medical center it is today.  BMH now includes beds for more than 250 acute care patients; over 45 specialty intensive care or post-anesthesia care beds; 16 operating rooms; a heavily used Emergency Department with a Chest Pain Center; a Birthing Center with a full-service Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; four Cardiac Catheterization labs; a full complement of diagnostic laboratory and imaging services; and outpatient surgery.