Internal medicine physician Merri Finchem, MD provides adult primary care in Allied Gardens at 4647 Zion Ave, San Diego, CA 92120, through Kaiser Permanente's Zion Medical Center. She graduated from Saint George's University School of Medicine in 2000 and completed her internal medicine residency at UCLA/VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System between 2000 and 2004, earning board certification through the American Board of Internal Medicine under NPI 1487702320. Finchem holds dual hospital affiliations with Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center and the Jennifer Moreno Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, extending her practice across both the Kaiser integrated network and the VA system. Hospital-level emergencies arising from her patient panel route to East Campus Medical Center at UC San Diego Health on Alvarado Road in Grantville, which operates an emergency department and inpatient services independent of the Kaiser network. Her clinical scope covers the standard internal medicine workload: wellness physicals, cardiovascular risk stratification, metabolic syndrome management, thyroid and endocrine screening, respiratory evaluation, and specialist referral coordination for conditions requiring gastroenterology, rheumatology, or oncology input. She conducts consultations in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, German, and Chinese — a five-language capacity that matches the multilingual corridor connecting Allied Gardens to the broader eastern San Diego community in the 92120 ZIP. The Zion campus maintains full ADA-compliant infrastructure with wheelchair-accessible entrance, parking, and restroom facilities. Patients coordinating integrative wellness alongside conventional internal medicine connect with practitioners including Flourish Acupuncture & Wellness in San Carlos, where acupuncturists work from traditional Chinese medicine protocols that some internists incorporate into chronic pain and stress management plans. Finchem accepts telehealth appointments through the Kaiser platform for non-urgent follow-ups, prescription management, and lab result consultations.