Melanie Baccay

Melanie Baccay is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with more than 17 years of nursing experience across a diverse range of clinical settings. Her background includes medical-surgical nursing, public health, pediatrics, women’s health, adolescent health, immunizations, and caring for underserved and medically vulnerable populations.

During her career with Kaiser Permanente, Melanie has worked in newborn and pediatric care, Adult Family Medicine, and wound care. Her extensive experience caring for patients with complex wounds has become a particular area of clinical interest and passion. She brings a strong focus on comprehensive assessment, patient education, healing, prevention of complications, and helping patients navigate their care throughout the treatment process.

Melanie earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice and Family Nurse Practitioner degree from the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis and is board certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner. As part of her doctoral work, she participated in an international clinical experience in the Philippines with UC Davis faculty and presented her DNP project focused on staff education using the TIMERS wound-care framework for patients with wounds complicated by arterial insufficiency.

Melanie is committed to providing compassionate, evidence-based, patient-centered care. She values collaboration with patients, families, surgeons, nurses, and the broader healthcare team and is passionate about helping patients feel informed, supported, and empowered throughout their healthcare journey.

Outside of work, Melanie is a busy mom of four and enjoys spending time with her family and cheering on her children at their basketball, flag football, volleyball, and cheerleading activities. She also has a passion for medical missions and hopes to participate in future international healthcare opportunities.