Taft is an oil town in the southwestern corner of Kern County, sitting on top of the Midway-Sunset Oil Field — one of the largest in the country — surrounded by pumpjacks and the small unincorporated communities of Ford City, South Taft, and Taft Heights that grew up alongside the oil industry a century ago. It is a tight-knit community with a substantial population of older oil-industry retirees, and that older population shapes our caseload: diabetic foot ulcers, venous leg ulcers, pressure injuries, and post-surgical wounds that need steady bedside attention. Taft has no hospital of its own. Care routes over the hills to Bakersfield, a solid drive of forty minutes or more depending on where you're headed. For a retired roughneck or refinery worker with a diabetic foot ulcer, or an older spouse managing a venous leg wound, that trip to a Bakersfield wound clinic repeated every week is a real burden — and it is where a treatment plan quietly breaks down. Our licensed physicians and nurse practitioners bring hospital-grade care to the home instead, across downtown Taft, Ford City, South Taft, and Taft Heights. Many of Taft's older patients spent decades in physically demanding oil-field work, and years on the feet in the heat leave a legacy of vascular disease and, combined with the region's high diabetes burden, plenty of hard-to-heal foot and leg wounds. Consistent debridement and compression at home is exactly what these wounds need. Taft also has a Spanish-speaking community, and our coordination team arranges interpreter support when scheduling. We coordinate with discharge planning teams at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, Adventist Health Bakersfield, and Kern Medical so patients leaving with a surgical wound, pressure injury, or diabetic ulcer transition to physician-led care at home without a gap. Visits are typically covered under Medicare Part B, Medicare Advantage, and most commercial plans. Our coordination line at 877-545-1300 is open 24/7. Call 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.