IMPROVING HEALTH CARE – FOR PATIENTS AND CLINICIANS

The idea of building an organization providing world-class care becomes a reality. Ohio-based Emergency Medicine Physicians joins with Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe to launch US Acute Care Solutions, with a focus on leveraging best practices and a commitment to physician ownership.

The company launches into new markets and solidifies its presence in others, serving nearly four million patients annually at more than 90 locations in 20 states. They add Denver-based Emergency Physicians at Porter Hospitals (EPPH), Maryland-based MEP Health and Florida-based Tampa Bay Emergency Physicians (TBEP).

A new National Clinical Governance Board examines best practices across founding partners and expands those programs throughout USACS.

Women’s initiatives are a focus as USACS advances the new brand at their debut ACEP Scientific Assembly. In addition to announcing a groundbreaking parental leave policy and hosting a new ACEP Women’s Dialogue Series, the company announces the addition of several prominent women physicians and APPs to the leadership team.

USACS and Cedar Park Regional Medical Center announce a new integrated acute care partnership, and USACS and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital form a partnership to provide emergency services in Virginia. USACS welcomes Piedmont Emergency Consultants (PEC) with two locations: Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital’s main ED and its freestanding ED at Sentara Martha Jefferson Outpatient Care Center.

While USACS experiences the same sudden and unprecedented effects related to COVID-19 that everyone else does, we react differently – stepping up to face the crisis as a leader in our industry and an exceptional partner for our hospitals. We prioritize state-of-the-art patient care and the safety and needs of our physicians, APPs, and hospital partners.

USACS becomes the sole system solution for Adventist HealthCare Maryland as the Greater Washington Emergency Physicians (GWEP) joins the group. USACS begins providing hospitalist and critical care services at AHC Fort Washington Medical Center, becoming the sole Integrated Acute Care (IAC) system solution to all three AHC hospitals in Maryland. 

VEP Healthcare Inc. (VEP) merges with USACS. The addition of VEP Healthcare, a premier provider of clinical management services in California, makes USACS the largest physician-owned provider of integrated acute care medicine.  

“A merger of this magnitude, coming on the heels of the greatest healthcare crisis of our lifetimes, speaks volumes about the strength and permanence of the physician-ownership model.” 

Dominic J. Bagnoli, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, Executive Board Chairman for USACS 

Mission Viejo Emergency Medicine Associates (MVEMA) joins USACS. The democratic, physician-owned group has a decades-long track record of providing expert medicine and an excellent patient experience to the communities of south Orange County, California.

Joining our existing USACS Maryland partner locations is the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), a nationally renowned, university-based regional health system. USACS now provides emergency medicine services at nine UMMS locations across Maryland.