Making the Rounds

JOINING FORCES FOR HEALTHCARE CHANGE K ern County’s healthcare is poised for generational leap as two leading healthcare

in Kern County, and bringing together their respective strengths to multiply the choices patients have for treatment and create across the county a sought-after, powerful network for patients and physicians. Leaders from each organization say that they see immediate avenues

to expand patient care, but even more, they share a vision to elevate healthcare in the region through what this partnership brings. The impact to Kern County residents will be positive – better care, improved access and the availability to more physicians, while keeping the ability to choose the physician and hospital they have always used. The partnership, giving each health system the ability to tap the resources of the other, will create the largest healthcare coalition in Kern County, with more than 30 locations, over 4,500 healthcare professionals, and more than a 1,000 physicians and physicians in-training.

providers have joined forced to recruit top talent, creating a “more healthy” region with better care, improved access and top specialists. Kern Medical and Adventist Health have

announced an unprecedented p a r t n e r s h i p , making them the focal point of healthcare e x p a n s i o n and surgical advancement

LEADERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT I n late 2021, Kern Medical announced its new CEO, Scott Thygerson. Mr. Thygerson has served as the organization’s Chief Strategy Officer since 2013 and later became President of Hospital and Clinic Operations in November 2019. Thygerson earned a Master of Health Administration from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brigham Young University and has more than 20 years of experience as an executive and consultant in health care strategic planning, operations, business development, and marketing. Under his leadership, Kern Medical will continue to fulfill its three-part mission as the area’s only teaching hospital, trauma and specialty center, and designated safety net hospital. Please join us in welcoming Scott into his new role! We look forward to having him continue the organizations legacy for a long time to come.

Scott Thygerson CEO, Kern Medical

13