Penny will be covering Live Oak, Lake City, Dowling Park, Jennings, Jasper, O'Brien, and McAlpin areas. She is currently accepting new patients for in-home primary care.Penny is an AANP board certified Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner. She graduated with her Master of Science in Nursing from Purdue University Global. Her professional background includes over 25 years in acute and chronic disease management and psychiatry as a registered nurse. She lives in the Live Oak area with her family.

Karen currently follows our patients at HarborChase of Gainesville ALF, Hunter's Crossing ALF, and provides weight loss services at Elite Medi-Spa. As a Florida native, Karen grew up in Ormond Beach, Florida. She is a wife and a proud mother of 5 children. She is an active member of her church and a lover of animals as in her spare time she also is a well known and successful dog breeder. Karen grew up in a large family and was raised by a prominent family physician, who was her father, and a brilliant business woman for a mother who was her mentor and ran her families several owned medical clinics. They spent many years training her in various roles throughout their many clinics. She fell in love with serving others and began her formal journey into the medical community. Karen graduated with her ASN from Daytona State College and obtained her BSN and MSN from Jacksonville University. She has been a nurse for 18 years. She initially was trained as a trauma neurosurgical nurse at a level 2 trauma center. Karen moved to Gainesville in 2010 and since obtaining her APRN certifications she has worked primarily in geriatric medicine in acute rehab facilities, long term care, assisted living facilities, and HCA North Florida Regional. She also provides services in Bariatric medicine as this was her initial interest and basis of her thesis for her MSN. She also works in palliative/hospice care. She additionally has been trained as a neurosurgical APRN in which she proudly worked with a local prominent neurosurgeon for several years.

Bonnie will be covering Alachua, High Springs, Newberry, Fort White, Lacrosse, and Gainesville areas. She is currently accepting new patients in those areas for in-home primary care. Bonnie is an AANP board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Florida in 2001. She later earned her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of St. Augustine. Her professional background includes working over 20 years in the Emergency and Interventional Radiology Departments as a registered nurse. She is passionate about nursing and is excited to provide care for people in their homes. In her spare time, she enjoys anything outside or near the water. She lives in the Alachua area with her husband and four children.

Kendra Fugate is a doctorate-prepared board-certified family nurse practitioner. She has worked as a nurse practitioner since 2021 in both primary care and cardiology settings. Prior to working as a nurse practitioner, she was a registered nurse in a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit for three years. Kendra earned a bachelor’s of science from the University of Florida in 2014 and then earned her bachelors of nursing from Sante Fe College in 2017. She then earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Florida in 2021. Kendra is married with two children and enjoys spending quality time with her family. She was raised in Williston Florida and feels passionate about providing primary care to her local community. Her goal is to provide personalized primary care forming a collaboration with her patients. She wants to ensure her patients know they are more than their medications and they all deserve a personalized care experience.