Dayspring Family Care, PLLC offers quality medical care to those living in the South Knoxville and Seymour area.  Our goal is to glorify God by providing our patients with excellent health care.  The services offered at Dayspring include:  treatment for acute illnesses, well exams, school/sports physicals, laboratory testing, EKGs, spirometry and management of long term diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. 

We accept most major insurance packages as well as Tenncare.

We are glad to accept walk-in visits by established patients for acute illnesses.  However, please be advised that we may not always be able to accommodate every walk-in patient.  We ask that you call prior to coming into the office to inquire about same-day appointments.

Please do not use walk-in visits to obtain refills on medication or regular follow-up.  Instead, please plan these visits ahead of time.  This will allow us to give you the full time and attention necessary to handle your health care needs.

Mr. James (Jim) E. Deweese has been employed as a Physician Assistant since 2000.

He graduated from Johnson Bible College in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science  in Bible and Music.

After several years of working in various management positions in the Knoxville area, he returned to school to pursue a career in health care. In 2000, he graduated with honors from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana with a Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences.

After working for the Federal Correctional Institution in Ashland, Kentucky for almost two years, he returned to the East Tennessee area to work with Dr. Ken Justice at Parkway Medical Center in Sevierville.  In March of 2006, he began working alongside Dr. Robert Beam in Seymour at Dogwood Family Practice.

In January 2007, Dayspring Family Care opened to begin seeing patients in the South Knoxville area.

Mr. Deweese is certified with the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA) and is a member of the Tennessee Association of Physician Assistants.

Jim and his wife, Dena, live in Seymour.

What is a PA?
           In the United States, Physician Assistants (PAs) are non-physician clinicians licensed to practice medicine with a physician’s supervision. The supervision in most cases need not be direct or onsite and many PAs serve in remote or under served areas in satellite clinics. PAs can treat patients, and in most states (including Tennessee), prescribe medications.

Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners both provide similar services in most states, the major distinction being that nurse practitioners are registered nurses by trade and are trained in advanced nursing. The education of a physician assistant is modeled after a medical school curriculum and physician assistants are trained to practice medicine.