Dr. Wes Hite, DO, FAAFP

Founder, Medical Director

Dr. Wes Hite was born at Fort Benning, Georgia, and grew up in the military, spending a good deal of his childhood in Germany. His father was an Army officer for 20 years, serving in both the infantry and special operations. 

As a 22-year-old student completing a bachelor’s degree at UNC-Chapel Hill, Wes accepted a Health Professions Scholarship, which covered the cost of medical school in exchange for active-duty service. Upon graduating, he joined the Army in 1999 and attended Officer Basic Training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, the Army’s home for military medicine.

Wes then attended Oklahoma State University’s Center for Health Sciences, where he trained in osteopathic medicine, a patient-centered approach that emphasizes primary care and holistic health. He completed his residency training in family medicine at Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, serving as Chief Resident during his final year of training.

Deployed four times during his 20 years in the military, Wes completed tours of duty in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait. Straight out of residency, he served in the 82nd Airborne Division, becoming both airborne qualified and earning his flight surgeon badge in aviation medicine. After his assignment with the 82nd Airborne Division, Wes joined the family medicine residency team at Fort Benning, Georgia, as teaching staff. Wes left active duty in 2010, transferring to the North Carolina National Guard where he continued to serve in our military.

On moving to Black Mountain, Wes was hired as a staff physician at Parkway Medical Group and immediately made the mountains his home. After military deployment in 2015, he worked at the Charles George VA Medical Center for a year before returning to Parkway, now AdventHealth. In 2019, Wes retired from the Army with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He launched Wellspring Direct Primary Care in July 2021. 

Service has always been the foundation of Wes’s medical practice. Since leaving active duty, Wes has continued his outreach through medical mission trips, practicing in Lebanon, Nicaragua, and Haiti. He helped establish the Mission Outreach program at AdventHealth Hendersonville and as the program's Medical Director, he launched a physician scholarship program to encourage service and ministry through both local and international partnerships. Wes also serves on the boards of Heart for Lebanon and Swannanoa Valley Christian Ministry. He is a ruling elder at Valley Hope Church, EPC, in Swannanoa.

Wes has been happily married to Jenny since 2000, and they have three children: Joel, Sam, and Hannah. Together they raise chickens, keep bees, and run Walker Town Farm, a one-acre cut flower farm in Black Mountain, along with their very loud, but very lazy hound dogs.