Bakersfield sits at the center of one of the highest diabetes-burden regions in California — Kern County's diabetes rate runs around 12%, well above the state average — and that shows up directly in the wounds our clinicians treat here. Diabetic foot ulcers are, by a wide margin, the most common reason a Bakersfield family calls Healix360. Our clinicians see patients across the whole metro area: the newer master-planned streets of Seven Oaks and the Stockdale corridor in the southwest, the ranch homes of Rosedale in the northwest, the established neighborhoods around the Bakersfield Country Club and La Cresta in the northeast, the older blocks of East Bakersfield, and Oildale just across the Kern River. For patients in the outlying neighborhoods, the drive to a hospital-based wound clinic downtown — repeated every week through a Central Valley summer — is exactly the barrier that lets a foot ulcer deteriorate. We remove it by bringing the physician to the living room. Bakersfield's medical anchors are Bakersfield Memorial Hospital and Mercy Hospital Downtown (both Dignity Health), Kern Medical, and Adventist Health Bakersfield. We coordinate with discharge planning teams at each so patients leaving with a surgical wound, pressure injury, or diabetic ulcer transition to physician-led care at home without a gap in treatment. Many Bakersfield households are Spanish-speaking, and our coordination team arranges language support around each visit so offloading instructions, dressing-change steps, and infection warning signs are understood by the patient and the family members providing daily care. Visits are typically covered under Medicare Part B, Medicare Advantage, and most commercial plans. Call 877-545-1300 to arrange an assessment.
Call 877-545-1300 or request a provider to begin care. Healix360 serves Southern California and Nevada and accepts Medicare Part B and most major insurance plans.