Palmer Debra M

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Nurse practitioner Debra M. Palmer delivers primary care in Allied Gardens at Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center, 4647 Zion Ave, San Diego, CA 92120, under NPI 1023134269. Her general medicine scope covers annual wellness exams, chronic disease management for diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors, medication reconciliation, and preventive screening protocols including mammography and colorectal cancer referrals. Patients on Palmer's panel who require vision correction or glaucoma monitoring can coordinate with KDT Optometry in College Area, which runs comprehensive refractive and ocular health exams as a complement to Kaiser's on-site ophthalmology department. The Kaiser Zion campus consolidates primary care, specialty consultation, laboratory diagnostics, and pharmacy dispensing into a single facility, allowing Palmer's patients to complete a lab draw, specialist referral, and prescription fill in a single visit without leaving the Allied Gardens campus. The Zion facility sits at the intersection of the Allied Gardens residential grid and the Interstate 8 commercial corridor, with Zion Avenue providing direct access from the Waring Road neighborhood center. Mental health referrals from Palmer's primary care panel route internally to Kaiser's on-campus psychiatry department, though patients who need outpatient behavioral health outside the Kaiser network also access Alter Behavioral Health - San Diego in College Area for intensive outpatient and residential treatment programming. Kaiser Permanente Zion maintains 24-hour inpatient and emergency services, giving Palmer's primary care patients a direct admission pathway when acute conditions exceed outpatient management capacity in the 92120 service area.