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Interim Home Healthcare of East Tennessee is under new ownership.

New owners, President and CEO Randy Frye and his nephew, Vice President Christian Sheets are excited to take the reigns in providing quality home healthcare to Morristown and surrounding counties.

Sheets says this endeavor is personal for him. He personally saw a growing need for quality home healthcare when his grandfather suffered a brain injury and was forced to live his last days in the hospital.

“My grandfather had a brain injury and stayed in the hospital two straight years, eventually passing away in the hospital. When all of this was going on I was in medical school and I saw that there was an urgent need for home health. It was my grandfather, but it was Randy’s dad,” Sheets said, expressing that the experience was personal for both of them.

Sheets, whose uncle ran a successful local insurance business, says when they were presented with the opportunity purchase Interim, they knew that they could combine their forces and use their personal experience to bring a vision to life.

“About a year ago, an opportunity came for us to negotiate purchasing this office. It was a Godsend because I get to help families not have to experience what I experienced with my grandfather, but now their loved ones will have an option to come home.”

“He [Frye] ran a very successful insurance business in this area which his wife still runs, so with his business in the area and my medical experience, it was kind of a match made in heaven.”

Sheets expressed the importance both he and Frye put on providing this important service to individuals within the community during their greatest time of need. He says their goal isn’t to be the biggest home health provider in East Tennessee, but they strive to be the best.

“Our slogan is that we don’t want to be the biggest home health agency in Tennessee, we want to be the best and most efficient one, so that’s kind of what we’re trying to put into practice here. The first six months has just been about growing and helping out the community.” Sheets said.

Sheets went on to say that patient over profit is their main goal along with helping people provide the best quality care for their loved ones.

“Our goal for this is to just provide the people of this community with an option to have really good care. We want them to be able to keep their loved ones out of the hospital and at home where their families are, especially for our pediatric patients,” Sheets said.

“They should be where their parents are so they’re not spending their entire childhood at East Tennessee Childrens Hospital, they’re spending it at home with their siblings and their parents and their pets.

“Whether it’s private duty nursing or home health we just want a company that people can trust to take care of the ones they love.”

Sheets says they have made some changes within their company to ensure the best care and efficiency for their patients.

“The big change we made is we put a clinical leader in charge of all of our service lines, so we have a clinical leader dedicated to each individual service line. In my opinion you can’t have strong clinical field staff without having a strong clinical leader to go to. If you have one person that’s split between 45 nurses, you can’t get them the care that they need,” Sheets said.

Sheets says he and Fry are proud to be the new owners of Interim Healthcare of East Tennessee and are looking forward to the future of providing quality home healthcare in the Morristown community.

“Interim has been in this community for over 20 years and we’re proud of the establishments that’s been built. We’re really excited to take it to the next level. Patient over profit Is how we run our business because people need someone they can trust.”