Emergency Care Partners (ECP) and Illinois Emergency Medicine Specialists (IEMS) are proud to recognize Dr. Scott Smithgall, DO, Medical Director at UChicago Medicine AdventHealth for his exceptional contributions to emergency medicine; a passion shaped by personal experiences and a deep desire to make a difference during life’s most critical moments.
For more than three decades, Illinois Emergency Medicine Services (IEMS) has been the trusted emergency department management partner for hospitals in Chicagoland, delivering measurable success through human-centered leadership and operational excellence.
In today’s complex healthcare environment, hospital leaders face a tough choice: use the resources of a large contract management group or rely on the dedication from a local group. Emergency Care Partners (ECP) believes you shouldn’t have to choose.
A large Louisiana hospital’s emergency department was at a crossroads in 2022. Leadership changes shone a light on long-standing challenges at the level-1 trauma center. In particular, the facility was struggling with an overcrowded emergency department, where patients frequently filled hallways; high turnover among the nursing staff; lagging patient discharge times; issues with patient-experience scores; and a residency program with a low retention rate.
Emergency medicine (EM) is one of the most intense and demanding fields in healthcare and entering it as a new graduate Physician Assistant (PA) can be daunting. In 2015, Progressive Emergency Physicians (PEP) launched an 18-month Emergency Medicine PA Fellowship Training Program at Good Samaritan University Hospital. The program is designed to develop new PAs into competent emergency clinicians with appropriate supervision and support.
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