Shasta Critical Care Specialists

Shasta Critical Care Specialists is a distinguished group of nephrology, pulmonology, and critical care physicians based in Redding, California. Providing care for the broadest spectrum of kidney and respiratory diseases, the group has been serving the northern California region since 1998. Members of Shasta Critical Care are Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Critical Care, Nephrology, Pulmonology, or Internal Medicine.

We have a long history of providing high-quality care for a wide range of health conditions, including high blood pressure, heart failure, chronic lung diseases, emphysema, asthma, allergy, and both chronic and acute kidney diseases. Our physicians attend patients at DCI and DaVita dialysis units, Mercy Medical Center, Shasta Regional Medical Center, Shasta Community Health Center, and Vibra Hospital.

Our Services

Our primary concern is patient care and service for both our outpatients and patients at area hospitals. Our physicians provide many services for a range of health conditions, including nephrology, pulmonology, and critical care medicine.

In nephrology, our physicians provide services such as acute kidney failure consultation and management, chronic kidney failure, glomerulonephritis, hypertension management, kidney diseases and hypertension in pregnancy, kidney stones, vasculitis, diabetic nephropathy, lupus nephropathy, proteinuria, hematuria, end-stage renal disease, preparation for dialysis, provision of dialysis care, peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis, and transplantation evaluation and referral for organ transplantation.

In pulmonology, our physicians provide services such as COPD, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, asthma, allergy, rhinitis, smoking cessation, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, sleep disorder, interstitial lung disease, lung cancer, hemoptysis, pulmonary nodules, sarcoidosis, and tuberculosis.

In critical care medicine, our physicians provide services such as ARDS, respiratory failure, congestive heart failure, anemia, bleeding disorders, and sepsis. We provide a broad and comprehensive system approach to our patients, keeping the quality of life and family support as our main goal.

Our Commitment

Shasta Critical Care Specialists support progress in medicine with participation in national professional groups, publications, and workshops throughout the country. Our members actively participate in medical education as volunteer faculty staff teaching in the local residency program through the University of California Davis. Our physicians have also published and presented cases at the national level and provided continuing medical education for our local community.