10/06/2026
It's National Primary Care week and we have to shout out Dr. Jaren Blake. Primary care is more than treating what hurts today.
It’s knowing the person who walks through the door.
It’s caring for a newborn and then, years later, caring for that same child as a teenager.
It’s helping a young adult navigate acne, mental health, nutrition and the transition into adulthood.
It’s managing diabetes, blood pressure, weight, medications and chronic conditions.
It’s talking about the things patients sometimes hesitate to bring up—sexual health, intimate wellness, energy, sleep, aging and the changes that come with it.
It’s catching something early.
It’s helping someone make sense of a complicated diagnosis.
It’s coordinating care when a specialist is needed.
It’s answering the question that came up after you left the office.
And sometimes, it’s simply knowing that something about a patient isn’t quite right because you’ve cared for them long enough to notice.
That’s what we love about primary care.
And that’s why we built Blake Family Medicine as a Direct Primary Care practice.
Without insurance billing standing between the doctor and the patient, our model allows us to focus on the relationship—not the clock, the paperwork, or how many patients can be squeezed into a day.
Dr. Blake cares for patients from newborns to hospice and everything in between. He brings comprehensive family medicine to the exam room, but more importantly, he brings something that can be hard to find in modern medicine:
Time.
Continuity.
Access.
And a doctor who knows you.
This National Primary Care Week, we’re grateful for the opportunity to practice medicine the way we believe it should be practiced.
Primary care isn’t just a place you go when you’re sick.
It’s the foundation for taking care of your health—and your life.
