Yvette Canaba, DPM, provides podiatric medicine and surgery in Santee at Fortitude Foot and Ankle Specialists, located at 8772 Cuyamaca Street within the Cuyamaca medical corridor. Pre-operative and diagnostic imaging for fracture assessment and structural evaluation is available at Sharp Rees-Stealy Santee Radiology in the adjacent medical campus on the same street. A Temple University School of Medicine graduate (2011) holding California podiatry license E5496 and NPI 1821426388, Canaba maintains hospital affiliation with Sharp Grossmont Hospital and accepts 15 insurance plans including Sharp Health Plan, Medicare Advantage, and UnitedHealthcare. Post-surgical rehabilitation for procedures such as bunionectomy and Achilles tendon repair routes patients to outpatient facilities including Santee Physical Therapy on Prospect Avenue for progressive weight-bearing and gait retraining protocols. The practice's highest-acuity cases include surgical management of diabetic osteomyelitis, complex ankle arthritis reconstruction, and heel spur resection requiring calcaneal osteotomy with internal fixation hardware.