Is there any SEO benefit to having my blog on my homepage rather than a subpage?

I have a blog I am running for a small medical practice website. I want to know if there is any SEO benefit from putting the blog right on the homepage below a few paragraphs of static website content. I want the hompage to rank well, not the individual blog pages nor the blog page, so when google crawls the homepage, wouldn't it be better to have the fresh content right on the homepage? Or will google see that you have a blog somewhere on the website and then give the juice to your homepage?…
Is there any SEO benefit to having my blog on my homepage rather than a subpage?

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