Dr. Blackledge is Board Certified in Family Medicine and completed the
Dartmouth-Brown Medical program in 2001. This included graduating with
Honors from Brown Medical School and finishing his preclinical sciences
at Dartmouth Medical School in 1998. He is a leading innovator in the
direct practice of medicine movement. He founded
Care Practice in late
2008 with zero patients, one doctor, and a single staff person. He took
an innovative approach in crafting a neighborhood based transparent
pricing strategy in a fee for service model and launched it almost
exclusively through social media platforms. With most doctors giving up
the dream of private practice, most thought his concept was unlikely to
succeed and would struggle to be financially viable. By July of 2011 the
clinic had seen over 7,000 unique patients and had 5 doctors on staff
with six staff members.
