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Tehachapi resident urges board to protect Medi‑Cal funding for Kern Medical trauma center
Summary
A Tehachapi resident told the Kern County Board of Supervisors that the county’s only trauma center, Kern Medical, relies heavily on Medi‑Cal funding and urged the board to support state and federal funding that sustains the hospital.
Janine Adams of Tehachapi spoke during public comment at the Kern County Board of Supervisors meeting on April 8, urging the board to support continued Medi‑Cal funding because, she said, “82% of funding for Kern Medical comes from Medicaid.”
Adams noted that Kern Medical is the county’s only trauma center and described a potential local impact if Medicaid funding were reduced: patients injured on state highways or county roads would have fewer local trauma options.
“Whether you will be privately paying at Kern Medical or if you are actually a Medicaid, recipient. So Kern Medical is a critical part of our infrastructure here in Kern County,” Adams said, and she asked the board to do “everything that they can to support our Medicaid funding, to California and then therefore to this county.”
Adams also praised the board’s recently formed Legislative Affairs Committee and said she planned to follow its work; she did not cite specific legislation or state‑level actions on the record. The transcript records no formal board response or vote tied to her comments.
