Integrated Emergency Medicine Specialists Joins Emergency Care Partners

Integrated Emergency Medicine Specialists Joins Emergency Care Partners

September 21, 2023 Editor 0

Integrated Emergency Medicine Specialists Joins Emergency Care Partners

Integrated Emergency Medicine Specialists Joins Emergency Care PartnersStrategic Merger will Enable Integrated Emergency Medicine Specialists to Leverage Emergency Care Partner’s Resources for Emergency Department Services and Growth.

Emergency Care Partners (“ECP”), a leading national physician-owned emergency medicine service provider, announced today the completion of a strategic merger with Integrated Emergency Medicine Specialists (“IEMS”). IEMS has served the Naples, FL, community since 2015, providing premier emergency department management services to its partner hospitals. 

IEMS will continue a service-first approach to support its client emergency departments while leveraging ECP’s unique model of combining local physician equity partnerships and a differentiated clinical analytics platform focused on high-quality patient care.  

ECP Chief Executive Officer, Bill Yarbrough, said, “We are very excited to welcome IEMS and their providers as a regional physician group practice of Emergency Care Partners. Their strong clinical leadership and reputation in the local community make them an ideal addition to our national group partnership of physician practices. We are excited to work with Dr. Brown to leverage our resources to deepen their relationships with key health system partners and continue to grow their local practice.  

The ECP physician partnership model now serves 56 clinical locations, supported by a combined clinical workforce of more than 1,000 physicians and advanced practice providers, treating 1.4 million patients annually. 

ECP is backed by financial sponsors Varsity Healthcare Partners (“VHP”) and Regal Healthcare Capital Partners (“Regal”).  

“This partnership allows us to leverage ECP’s infrastructure and resources to continue to deliver the highest quality care and experiences to our patients and strengthen our health system partnerships in Southwest Florida,” said IEMS President, Dr. Hunter Brown, D.O. 

Massumi + Consoli LLP and Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP acted as legal advisers to ECP and VHP, while Dean Mead acted as legal advisors to IEMS.  

About Emergency Care Partners  

Headquartered in Pensacola, Florida, ECP is a leading provider of emergency medicine and emergency department management services for hospitals across the U.S., with current operations in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New York, North Carolina, and Texas. ECP sees 1.4 million patient visits annually across operations at 56 clinical programs, supported by a clinical workforce of 1,000+ physicians and advanced practice providers. ECP employs a differentiated model relative to other platforms in the emergency medicine space, highlighted by the ability to maintain ownership through its physician partnership model and the ability for regional/local groups to maintain their branding and clinical autonomy while still benefitting from ECP’s significant back-office infrastructure. This critical infrastructure includes support for revenue cycle, financial and operational reporting, recruiting, training, compliance, contracting, scheduling, and payroll, among other functions. ECP’s affiliated physician groups also have access to the national partnership’s proprietary analytics platform, which operatively interfaces in real time with each hospital’s IT platform to track and report daily key performance indicators (KPI) in the emergency room. These include throughput, capacity utilization, clinical quality metrics, and ancillary services reporting, which are used by ECP clinical and operational leaders and the hospitals themselves to drive quality service and outcomes and a consistent patient experience within each customer’s emergency department. For more information, please visit www.ecp.net

About Integrated Emergency Medicine Specialists (“IEMS”). 

Founded in October 2015 and headquartered in Naples, FL, IEMS is a leading provider of emergency department management services, focusing on process improvement and quality patient care. IEMS provides emergency department medical directorship and management services, including recruitment, credentialing, and qualifying for third-party billing contracts and requirements. 

About Varsity Healthcare Partners 

Varsity Healthcare Partners (VHP) is a lower middle-market private equity investment firm focused on partnering with founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams to build leading healthcare services companies. VHP’s unique tactical investment playbook and strong track record is complemented by VHP’s distinct organizational culture, emphasizing highly collaborative engagement, strong professional accountability, and a commitment to excellence in work product and team performance. For more information, please visit www.varsityhealthcarepartners.com

About Regal Healthcare Capital Partners 

Regal Healthcare Capital Partners (“Regal”) is a New York-based growth equity and buyout firm focused exclusively on lower-middle market healthcare services companies. Regal partners with leading-edge healthcare entrepreneurs in need of financial investment and strategic, operational, and managerial expertise. Regal and its co-founders, David Kim, M.D., and Jon Santemma, bring a unique combination of operational and transactional experience to healthcare services companies to help realize their growth potential. For more information, please visit www.regalhcp.com 

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Kacie Hackel

National Marketing Manager

[email protected]

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AcCELLerate Forum to Focus on Creating a Sustainable Ecosystem of Cell and Gene Therapy

AcCELLerate Forum to Focus on Creating a Sustainable Ecosystem of Cell and Gene Therapy

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AcCELLerate Forum to Focus on Creating a Sustainable Ecosystem of Cell and Gene Therapy

AcCELLerate Forum to Focus on Creating a Sustainable Ecosystem of Cell and Gene Therapy

The Oct. 2-3 hybrid workshop will bridge the gap between critical stakeholders to pinpoint today’s challenges and create forward-thinking solutions that enable the cell and gene therapy industry to create and deliver life-saving treatments equitably.

AcCELLerate Forum to Focus on Creating a Sustainable Ecosystem of Cell and Gene Therapy
AcCELLerate Forum

The Oct. 2-3 hybrid workshop will bridge the gap between critical stakeholders to pinpoint today’s challenges and create forward-thinking solutions that enable the cell and gene therapy industry to create and deliver life-saving treatments equitably.

–  AcCELLerate Forum, a partnership between Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT), and the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)/Be The Match, will bring key stakeholders together to identify ongoing needs and opportunities in cell and gene therapy for advocacy, measurement of value, impact, and sustainability. The Oct. 2-3, workshop at the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel in Arlington, VA, and online will bring together providers, payers, government agencies, and industry members to define essential factors needed to create a sustainable cell and gene therapy ecosystem. 

“CIBMTR is proud to co-sponsor this important forum that interests all key stakeholders across the ecosystem,” said Marcelo Pasquini, MD, MS, Senior Scientific Director, CIBMTR MCW. “Our established relationships with a global network of treatment centers and cell and gene therapy developers uniquely position CIBMTR to bring these experts together to identify the needs and opportunities to adapt to this rapidly evolving field.” 

CIBMTR will join industry leaders, treatment-center partners, regulators, and other professionals to discuss the regulatory landscape for the approval of new products. The participants will focus on the perspectives of the payer and regulators, data acquisition and analysis, and center perspectives in defining outcomes for CAR-T cells. They will also discuss logistics for CAR-T, safety and toxicity, and the future directions and competing therapies. The forum will also include breakout sessions on the logistics of cell therapy delivery, efficacy, treatment decisions and sequencing, and manufacturing and logistics standardization in a moderator-led roundtable with attendee participation. Visit the event website to register.

Eligible members of the media are invited to attend AcCELLerate Forum in-person or online at no cost. Please contact Jennifer Kasowicz ([email protected]), Director of Marketing at ASTCT, at (312) 673-4970, to verify eligibility and receive the passcode.

About CIBMTR
The Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) is a nonprofit research collaboration between the NMDP/Be The Match, in Minneapolis, and the Medical College of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee. CIBMTR collaborates with the global scientific community to increase survival and enrich the quality of life for patients. CIBMTR facilitates critical observational and interventional research through scientific and statistical expertise, a large network of centers, and a unique database of long-term clinical data for more than 635,000 people who have received hematopoietic cell transplantation and other cellular therapies. Learn more at cibmtr.org.

About ASTCT

The American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy (ASTCT) is an international professional membership association of more than 3,000 physicians, investigators, and other health care professionals from more than 45 countries. Our mission is dedicated to improving the application and success of blood and marrow transplantation and related cellular therapies. For more information about ASTCT, visit www.astct.org and follow us on Twitter, @ASTCT.

About NMDP/Be The Match

The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)/Be The Match is the leading global partner working to save lives through cellular therapy. With 35 years of experience managing the most diverse registry of potential unrelated blood stem cell donors and cord blood units in the world, NMDP/Be The Match is a proven partner in providing cures to patients with life-threatening blood and marrow cancers and diseases. Through their global network, they connect centers and patients to their best cell therapy option—from blood stem cell transplant to a next-generation therapy—and collaborate with cell and gene therapy companies to support therapy development and delivery through Be The Match BioTherapies. 

Contact Information:

Jennifer Kasowicz

ASTCT Marketing Director

[email protected]

(312) 673-4970

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