Primary Care in Kendall, With a Provider Who Knows Your History

Primary care on North Kendall Drive

Primary care works best when one office holds your whole picture: every medicine, every past result, the family history and the thing you mentioned in passing last year. The Kendall office brings that kind of care to the south side of the county, at 10621 North Kendall Drive, Suite 101, near SW 107th Avenue. It’s the second office of Ambert Medical Care Center, which has cared for Miami Lakes for more than seventeen years, and it offers everything the first one does, with the same insurance plans.

That means checkups and the screenings due for your age, care for the conditions you live with, refills, referrals, and same-day visits when you’re sick: you can walk in at the Kendall office without an appointment. The front desk answers in English or Spanish, and the Kendall office page has the map and directions.

Who you’ll see in Kendall

Kendall patients see Roselia Alonso, APRN, the office’s family nurse practitioner. She has been a registered nurse in Florida since 2009 and an advanced practice registered nurse since 2021, after a Master of Science in Nursing at Miami Regional University. In the practice’s words, her work has focused on primary care, with a particular emphasis on older patients. She speaks English and Spanish.

A nurse practitioner is a registered nurse with graduate training who can serve as your primary care provider and prescribe medicines (MedlinePlus). Behind her is the rest of the practice: Florida’s clinic-licensing agency lists Dr. Fernando Bolufer, MD, an internal medicine physician, as medical director of both offices. Dr. Bolufer sees patients at the Miami Lakes office; if you’d prefer a physician, say so when you call. You can meet the whole team before you book.

Because the Kendall office has one provider, continuity comes built in: the person who sees you for a checkup in March is usually the one who sees you for the follow-up in June.

A year of primary care, visit by visit

Most people need only a handful of visits a year. This is what each one is for:

Visit	What it’s for	When
First visit	Your history and medicines, an exam, and which screenings you’re due for	Once, when you join the practice
Annual physical, or Medicare’s Wellness visit	Prevention: screenings, vaccines and a plan for the year ahead	Once a year
Follow-up for a long-term condition	Blood pressure, blood sugar or thyroid checks, and adjusting treatment	As often as your provider sets them
Blood work	The tests your plan calls for, drawn at the office	Often on the day of your visit
Same-day sick visit	A new illness that can’t wait	Walk in, any day the office is open
Refills and questions	Keeping your medicines going between visits	Call the office

The annual physical page lists the screenings by age, and the blood work page explains which tests need fasting.

Primary care for older adults

If you’re on Medicare, the yearly Wellness visit is the backbone of your preventive care. You’ll fill out a short health questionnaire, and your provider takes your height, weight and blood pressure, reviews your medical and family history and your current prescriptions, checks for early signs of memory problems, and gives you a written plan of the screenings and vaccines you need. It’s covered once every 12 months, and you pay nothing if your provider accepts assignment (Medicare.gov). In your first 12 months of Part B, the one-time “Welcome to Medicare” preventive visit comes first (Medicare.gov). Routine physical exams aren’t covered by Original Medicare (Medicare.gov), so say which visit you want when you book. The Medicare guide covers costs and plans.

Tell your provider about any fall. More than one in four people 65 and older fall each year, but fewer than half tell their doctor, and falling once doubles the chance of falling again (CDC). Many of the causes can be changed: trouble with walking and balance, low vitamin D, foot pain or poor shoes, and medicines, including sedatives, tranquilizers, antidepressants and even some over-the-counter ones that affect how steady you are. If you fall and hit your head, especially while taking a blood thinner, the CDC’s advice is to see your doctor right away.

That’s why the most useful thing to bring to a Kendall visit is every medicine you take, in its bottle: prescriptions, vitamins and anything you buy at the pharmacy counter, so your provider can review them all side by side.

Long-term conditions, followed close to home

High blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol and thyroid problems don’t need a specialist for every visit. They need someone who sees you regularly, checks the numbers and adjusts the plan, and an office close enough that you keep the appointments. See care for blood pressure, diabetes and thyroid problems for how the practice manages them, and nutrition counseling for the day-to-day side of it. When a specialist would change the plan, your provider refers you and stays involved, so the specialist’s findings come back into the same plan.

Starting with Ambert in Kendall

Bring four things: a photo ID, your insurance card, a list of every medicine and supplement you take, and any records from your previous doctor. If you don’t have the records, you can sign a release at the visit and the office will request them. The Kendall new patient guide has the rest, and the insurance page lists the plan types the practice accepts. The Kendall office is open Saturday from 8 am to 2 pm, and Saturday mornings are the only weekend hours at either office, which helps if you work weekdays.