Prepare for Your Visit

Our team is committed to your personal health care. In order to get the most out of your office visits, we encourage you to follow the simple pointers below.

Our Recommendations

1. Please bring your medicines in the bottles to every visit. This allows us to carefully review your medicines, the dosages, quantity of pills you receive and number of refills left in your profile. Additionally, it will allow us to help you get familiarized with each medication, their purpose, and their potential side effects.

2. Please take your medicines as you normally do before every visit. If you have high blood pressure and fail to take your morning medicines, your blood pressure reading may be higher in the office than it normally reads at home. It is important to know what your blood pressure is on the medicines during your office visit.

3. Please remember to bring any outside medical tests or records to your visit. For example, if you have had a heart catheterization, echocardiogram, EKG, holter monitor, persantine thallium study, or any other cardac testing done at a non-Kaiser Permanente facility, please bring a copy of the results for us to review.

4. Get linked to a personal practitioner. An important part of your health care experience is building a relationship with your personal physician or nurse practitioner. To that end, we encourage all our patients to have a personal practitioner who practices at a location convenient to your home or office. You may choose or change your personal physician or nurse practitioner by calling our Member Outreach Coordinators toll-free at (800) 792-3992, or use our online selection request tool.

5. Parking. As a reminder, parking may be a challenge with the construction of our Vacaville and Vallejo hospitals. Please allow additional time to park and get to the appointment.

Other Tips & Tools:

Don't throw away that receipt! Look for Prevention Information on Your Registration Slip.

Do you have an Advance Health Care Directive? Learn more about it here:

• English: Advance Health Care Directives Completing an Advance Health Care Directive
• Spanish: Instrucciones adelantadas, o Poder legal duradero para el cuidado médico Instrucciones adelantadas, o Poder legal duradero para el cuidado médico

• Prehospital Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Form (This form is not required to fill out an Advance Health Care Directive and is not needed by most members.)

Disclaimer
If you think you have a MEDICAL OR PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY, CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY or go to the nearest hospital. DO NOT attempt to access emergency care through this web site. An emergency medical condition is a medical or psychiatric condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) such that you could reasonably expect the absence of immediate medical attention to result in any of the following: serious jeopardy to your health, serious impairment to your bodily functions, or serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part. An emergency medical condition is also "active labor," which means a labor when there is inadequate time for safe transfer to a Plan hospital (or designated hospital) before delivery or if a transfer poses a threat to the health of the member or unborn child.

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