Hello, I am

Dra. Karen Franco

Nursing Lead

Surgical floor coordination, recovery support, and bilingual care for international patients — the day-to-day point person between consultation and discharge. Dra. Franco leads the nursing team at Allure RT MX in Tijuana, Mexico (30 minutes from San Diego), with a focus on calm communication, comfortable recovery, and seamless logistics for patients traveling from the US.

10+
Years in surgical nursing
5k+
Procedures supported
2
Languages (Spanish & English)
Dra. Karen Franco (second from left), Nursing Lead at Allure RT MX, with her care team

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Dra. Karen Franco (second from left), with the Allure RT MX care team
Hello, I am
Dra. Karen Franco

As Nursing Lead at Allure RT MX, Dra. Franco runs the surgical floor — pre-op admission, intraoperative team coordination, and recovery support — and serves as the day-to-day point of contact for international patients. Her focus is calm, consistent communication: the same nurse who meets you at admission walks you out at discharge, in your language, every step of the way.

Specialty
Perioperative nursing — pre-op admission, OR support, recovery-room monitoring, international-patient coordination
Board certification
Mexican-licensed registered nurse · member of the Mexican College of Nursing · advanced training in surgical nursing and recovery-room protocols
Procedures supported
5,000+ surgical and aesthetic procedures across plastics, dental, weight-loss, and aesthetic-medicine cases
Hospital affiliations
Allure RT MX, Tijuana
Languages
Spanish, English (fully bilingual)
Patient stories

Anonymized patient feedback themed around the calm admission, bilingual recovery, and end-to-end coordination patients remember most.

Anonymized patient
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Karen met us at the door, walked us through admission, and was right there when I woke up. Calm, organized, and so reassuring — exactly what you need on a stressful day.
Mommy makeover patient
5-star rating
Anonymized patient
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My Spanish is rough and I was worried about miscommunication. Karen translated every instruction and answered all my texts about meds and drains in clear English. I never felt lost.
Tummy tuck patient
5-star rating
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From airport pickup to discharge, Karen coordinated every detail. Same nurse the whole way through — admission, recovery suite, hotel check-ins, the goodbye at discharge. End-to-end care.
Bariatric patient
5-star rating
Anonymized patient
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Karen met us at the door, walked us through admission, and was right there when I woke up. Calm, organized, and so reassuring — exactly what you need on a stressful day.
Mommy makeover patient
5-star rating
Anonymized patient
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My Spanish is rough and I was worried about miscommunication. Karen translated every instruction and answered all my texts about meds and drains in clear English. I never felt lost.
Tummy tuck patient
5-star rating
Anonymized patient
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From airport pickup to discharge, Karen coordinated every detail. Same nurse the whole way through — admission, recovery suite, hotel check-ins, the goodbye at discharge. End-to-end care.
Bariatric patient
5-star rating