Michael D. Cecilio, MD | Kaiser Permanente

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Family medicine physician Michael D. Cecilio, MD provides urgent care services through Kaiser Permanente's La Mesa Medical Offices on Parkway Drive in La Mesa, combining primary care continuity with same-day acute evaluation. The practice's dual family medicine and urgent care scope allows chronic-condition management alongside acute injury triage, with post-visit referrals for sprains and strains routed to Grossmont-area rehabilitation providers like Lamesa Physical Therapy. A University of Novi Sad Faculty of Medicine graduate (2000) who completed family medicine residency in Ohio, the physician served military families at Naval Medical Center San Diego before joining Kaiser Permanente in 2015, bringing Department of Defense clinical protocols to the civilian urgent care setting. Kaiser's integrated electronic health record ensures that urgent care encounters — from EKG interpretation to arterial blood gas analysis — are visible to the patient's primary care team and campus-adjacent dental providers like Gentle Dental Grossmont when orofacial trauma requires coordinated follow-up. The clinic's immunization protocols cover influenza, pneumococcal, tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis, and shingles vaccines under CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices scheduling guidelines.