Peta
Watkins.

Background

Why this practice exists.

Twelve years in nursing taught Peta Watkins one thing above all: the care that changes outcomes is preventative, and it happens in the outpatient setting — long before anyone ends up in a hospital bed.

She began as a certified nursing assistant while working through her undergraduate degree, then spent years as a registered nurse across Tampa Bay hospitals — neurology, medical-surgical, telemetry, and maternal-child — and served as a preceptor, training the nurses coming up behind her. That range is unusual, and it shows in how she reads a patient. She has seen these conditions caught early, and she has seen what they look like when they weren't.

She moved into outpatient primary care deliberately, and built her practice around adults and older adults managing real conditions over real time — the population she knows best after more than a decade in geriatric nursing. Her focus is primary care, metabolic and weight management, and the chronic conditions that need someone actually watching them between visits.