Key Addition to the Executive Team Will Enable ECP to Accelerate Growth and Scale in Private Practice Emergency Medicine
PENSACOLA, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Emergency Care Partners (“ECP”), a leading national provider of emergency medicine and emergency department management services for hospitals, today announced that David Copple has joined the company as National Chief Development Officer. Copple will be a member of ECP’s executive leadership team reporting to Chief Executive Officer, Bill Yarbrough.
In this role, Copple will oversee the physician group’s Business Development organization, which is responsible for ECP’s organic growth as well as its partnerships with existing, successful emergency medicine private practices. He joins ECP from Envision Healthcare, where he successfully helped grow the company for more than 25 years as Vice President of Practice Development.
“We are delighted to welcome David to our executive leadership team in this critical role as ECP enters its next phase of growth,” said CEO Bill Yarbrough. “David’s track record of creating quality growth in physician services and his alignment with our mission make him an invaluable addition to our team.”
“Emergency Care Partners is a leader and innovator in emergency medicine, and I look forward to leveraging my experience to continue ECP’s mission of enabling private emergency medicine groups, hospitals and health systems to offer their physicians the opportunity for practice ownership,” added David Copple. “Local alignment and ownership result in the best outcomes for the communities being served, and I am honored to be able to offer a true equity partnership model to physicians.”
ECP will continue to implement a service-intensive approach to managing emergency departments by leveraging its unique model, which equips local physician equity partnerships with its differentiated clinical analytics platform to deliver the highest level of care to patients across the country.
ECP remains a majority physician-held business and is backed by financial sponsors Varsity Healthcare Partners (“VHP”) and Regal Healthcare Capital Partners (“Regal”).
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 Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, Texas, and Arizona. ECP currently services approximately 1,000,000 patient visits annually across operations at 43 sites of service, supported by a clinical workforce of 750+ physicians and mid-level 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 benefitting from ECP’s significant back-office infrastructure. This critical infrastructure includes resources for growth, support for revenue cycle, financial and operational reporting, recruiting, training, compliance, contracting, scheduling and payroll, among other functions. ECP’s affiliated medical groups also have access to the platform’s proprietary analytics platform, which operatively interfaces in real time with each hospital’s IT platform to track/report daily key performance indicators (KPI) in the emergency room. These include throughput, capacity utilization and clinical quality metrics and ancillary services reporting, which are used by ECP clinical/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: https://link.edgepilot.com/s/b0d62fbc/WYMIlA8Bx0qnWIX_nUVhEg?u=http://www.ecp.net/.
About Varsity Healthcare Partners
Varsity Healthcare Partners 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 has been successful in developing and executing a tailored value-creation plan, in partnership with the leadership of each company that typically emphasizes investments in infrastructure followed by an aggressive organic and acquisition growth strategy. VHP draws upon its extensive healthcare industry experience and relationships, as well as its hands-on partnership approach to effectively drive growth and maximize value. For more information please visit: https://link.edgepilot.com/s/48a50e40/4yCZHsocGkyOqH5Au4J8FA?u=http://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, Dr. David Kim 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: https://link.edgepilot.com/s/b88d2916/hzV4b93trECs2DLXH_LDHQ?u=http://www.regalhcp.com/.
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