Freestanding EDs vs. Urgent Care Centers | What is the difference?

As freestanding EDs, also known as emergency care centers, continue to pop-up on what seems like every street corner in Texas, it is becoming harder and harder for consumers to tell the difference between them and urgent care centers.

The confusion usually stems from these facilities looking quite alike and usually being located in the same types of areas -- in strip malls and in residential areas. Many wonder, "What separates these seemingly identical types of facilities?"

This Midsouth Pediatric Emergency Group is Shaping the Care of Children

Memphis, TN - Every year, Pediatric Emergency Specialists (PES) cares for more than 100,000 children in their LeBonheur Children’s Hospital Emergency Department, Fast Track, and Urgent Care Centers in the Memphis area.

Their emergency room is specifically designed for kids and staffed with child life specialists. From smaller needles and special distraction techniques, everything they do is focused on making kids as comfortable as possible.

As the only ACS Level I Pediatric Trauma Center in the region and part of a comprehensive children’s hospital, PES physicians have access to more than 150 pediatric specialists at LeBonheur day or night.

West Texas Emergency Medicine Group Offering Potential of Over $600k

Odessa, TX - This family-friendly community in West Texas brings together everything a physician and their family want in a modern city without the inconveniences of traffic congestion. Known as one of the highest income earning communities per capita, Odessa residents benefit from a family-friendly atmosphere with local minor league sports, theatre, and an abundance of restaurants, within an ever-growing regional economy.

Elite Physician-Owned Emergency Medicine Groups Interviewing at ACEP15

If you are one of the many emergency medicine residents graduating in 2016, what have you done to ensure that you will come face-to-face with leadership from many of the top EM groups across the nation?

We introduced face-to-face interviews at the EMrecruits ACEP booth in Chicago. Those who participated benefited from having this dedicated time with our client leadership teams and it resulted in many new physician hires.

As we quickly approach the start of the 2015 ACEP Scientific Assembly in Boston, MA - October 26-28, 2015 - we are excited to announce that we will once again be holding face-to-face interviews at the 2015 Boston ACEP! You can find us as Booth #715!

Palm Beach Medical Group Seeking Emergency Physicians for Directorship

Wellington, FL - As one of the most successfully crafted communities in Palm Beach County, Wellington has become a premier South Florida community known for its abundant parks, quality schools, attractive neighborhoods and cultural venues.

Emergency Specialists of Wellington (ESOW), an entity of TruePartners Emergency Physicians, currently serves this vibrant community by providing emergency medicine services to Wellington Regional Medical Center (WRMC).

WRMC is a 233-bed medical campus, with a spacious 37-bed ED offering rapid response heart attack treatment, a stroke team on standby and teleneurology services that can bring a neurologist to the bedside 24 hours per day, seven days a week, to help assess and treat patients.