Blake Carden, PA-C

Blake Carden owns Cool Springs Direct Primary Care in Brentwood, where he works as a physician assistant. After ten years inside standard practice medicine, he grew frustrated with what he calls the "system" and set out to build something that put the provider-patient relationship back at the center of care.

Before opening his own practice, Carden worked as an orthopedic physician assistant. That background shaped how he approaches direct primary care now, stripping out the middle men that slow things down and add cost. Patients get real time with him, with visits running thirty to sixty minutes rather than the rushed slots typical of traditional offices, along with direct access when they need it. The result is care built around the patient rather than around a system, which is the whole reason he started Cool Springs in the first place.