Gerstmann Clare K

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Gerstmann Clare K practices neonatal medicine in Allied Gardens, San Diego at Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center, 4647 Zion Avenue in the 92120 ZIP. Neonatal physicians at Kaiser's San Diego campus are pediatricians with advanced subspecialty training who manage the care of newborns requiring medical intervention beyond routine post-delivery assessment — premature infants, neonates with birth defects, respiratory distress, feeding difficulties, or jaundice requiring phototherapy. The neonatal team at the Zion Avenue hospital coordinates with labor and delivery nurses, obstetricians, anesthesiologists, and maternal-fetal medicine specialists to ensure that high-risk deliveries have NICU-level support available immediately at birth. Pediatric dental coordination for former NICU patients whose enamel development was affected by prematurity or prolonged intubation routes through Talmadge Family Dental in College Area, which provides pediatric and family dental services that include monitoring for enamel hypoplasia common in children born before 32 weeks gestation. Kaiser Permanente's integrated system at the Zion Avenue campus connects neonatal care to pharmacy, laboratory, imaging, and specialist departments through a shared electronic health record — an infrastructure that allows the neonatal team to order labs, review imaging, and adjust treatment plans without transferring records between separate hospital systems. The Allied Gardens location on Zion Avenue sits within the 92120 ZIP and is accessible from Interstate 8, serving expectant families from the surrounding neighborhoods of Del Cerro, Grantville, and San Carlos. Post-discharge vision screening for premature infants at risk of retinopathy of prematurity coordinates through Spectrum Eye Clinic + MedSpa on Zion Avenue in Allied Gardens. The Kaiser neonatal service provides continuity from prenatal high-risk monitoring through delivery and NICU stay, with structured follow-up protocols that track growth, developmental milestones, and neurocognitive outcomes through the first years of life.