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RAMPART Seizure Trial Published in New England Journal of Medicine
Feb 15, 2012
Austin-Based HPCR, Austin-Travis County EMS Managed Study in Collaboration with Seton, St. David’s AUSTIN, TX — A national study of pre-hospital seizure treatments, managed locally by Hospital Physicians in Clinical Research, PLLC (HPCR), will be published in the Feb. 16 issue of the prestigious... Read more »
ESP Partners with Christus Santa Rosa to Manage, Staff New Free-Standing Emergency Centers in San Antonio, New Braunfels
Feb 1, 2012
AUSTIN, TX —Emergency Service Partners, L.P. (ESP) has reached an agreement to staff and provide medical management for two new free-standing emergency medical facilities set to open in late 2012. One will be located in northwest San Antonio, and the other will be built in nearby New Braunfels,... Read more »
SafetyCore™ Program Enhances Risk Management Efforts
Jan 30, 2012
Emergency Service Partners, L.P. today unveiled a newly developed evidence-based risk identification and risk solution program for its providers. The SafetyCore™ Program, in partnership with EB Medicine, replaces The Sullivan Group audit and CME product."SafetyCore is designed to more effectively... Read more »
Medical, Nursing Directors Meet for Annual Conference
Nov 14, 2011
Approximately 70 people gathered Friday, November 11 at the Westin Austin for the ESP Medical/Nursing Directors Conference. This annual, all-day event allows emergency department medical directors and nursing directors from each of ESP's 24 clinical sites to gather for educational sessions,... Read more »
New Staff Members Enhance Operations
Nov 2, 2011
A number of recent hires are making their mark at ESP: Joe Danna, MD is the new Medical Director for Metroplex Hospital in Killeen, TX. In addition, he will serve as the Director of Quality and Practice Development for ESP. One of the first physicians formally trained in an emergency medicine... Read more »
ESP Conquers San Francisco at ACEP
Oct 19, 2011
Many physicians and staff members from ESP attended the 2011 American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Scientific Assembly October 15-17 in San Francisco, CA. In addition to the educational component of this annual meeting, this is also ESP's largest recruiting event of the year. The... Read more »
ESP Physicians Researching Snakebite Antivenom
Jun 20, 2011
ESP physician Micheal Spohn MD, Emergency Department Research Director for St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan, TX, is featured in a new video published by St. Joseph. St. Joseph is participating in a clinical trial for a new type of antivenom, which is in the final stage of FDA approval.... Read more »
Seton to Train More ER Docs with $2 Million Gift
Apr 6, 2011
By Mary Ann Roser Austin American-Statesman April 6, 2011 Hoping to increase the number of emergency medicine doctors in the Austin area, a physicians' group has donated $2 million to the Seton Family of Hospitals to train more of them. The gift is from Emergency Service Partners, a doctors' group... Read more »
Toloza Appointed Chief of Staff
Mar 1, 2011
Eileen Toloza, MD has been appointed Chief of Staff at Peterson Regional Medical Center in Kerrville. Toloza has served as the Eemergency Department Medical Director since February 2007. Return to News Page Read more »
Berger Named EM Residency Director
Jan 31, 2011
ESP physician Todd Berger, MD has assumed the role of Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director at UMC Brackenridge in Austin. Dr. Berger joins the program from Emory University in Atlanta, where he served as their associate Program Director. Emergency Service Partners is pleased to collaborate... Read more »
Vezzetti Appointed to Governor's Advisory Council
Nov 1, 2010
ESP physician Dr. Robert Vezzetti was recognized in the October 2010 issue of Texas Medicine Magazine one of Texas Governor Rick Perry's three new appointees to the Advisory Council on Emergency Medical Services. The council helps federal, state and local agencies develop and implement an... Read more »
ESP Building First Austin Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Apr 1, 2010
University Medical Center Brackenridge and the Seton Family of Hospitals have given Emergency Service Partners, L.P. permission to begin building an Emergency Medicine Residency. The program will be the first of its kind in Austin. ESP has begun the process of designing the structure under which... Read more »
Doctor Lives His Faith Operating in Haiti, Sudan
Feb 26, 2010
ESP physician Jeremy Gabrysch, MD was featured in the Austin American-Statesman for his medical mission work following the earthquake in Haiti. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - By Michael HoinskiSpecial to the American-StatesmanFebruary 26, 2010 Before proposing to his... Read more »
Tameem Husain Wins First Place Honors
Jan 1, 2010
Congratulations to Dr. Tameem Husain, who was recently awarded first place by the Foundation for Osteopathic Emergency Medicine for his research paper, "Comparison of the cardio-toxic effects of reacemic albuterol vs levalbuterol in treatment of acute airflow obstruction." Return to News Page Read more »
ESP Physicians Named Fellows for TCEP Leadership and Advocacy Fellowship Program
Nov 23, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. Heidi Knowles (Palestine), Dr. Jason Collins (Austin), and Dr. David Miranda (Houston) on being named by the Texas College of Emergency Physicians to be Fellows for the 2010-2011 TCEP Leadership and Advocacy Fellowship Program.ESP strongly supports the development of future... Read more »
6th Annual ESP Medical and Nursing Directors Conference Attracts ED Leaders
Nov 16, 2009
Emergency Service Partners, L.P. sponsored its 6th Annual Medical and Nursing Directors Conference November 13, 2009, in Austin at the Hyatt Regency on Town Lake. The conference attracted more than 50 physician and nursing leaders from 22 ESP-affiliated emergency departments across Texas,... Read more »
Dr. Pat Crocker/Dell Children's Tackle H1N1 Cases
Sep 29, 2009
Pat Crocker, DO has been in the news speaking about how Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas is setting up tents to handle influx of patients during the H1N1 flu scare: KVUE - "Dell Children's opens tent clinics" (9/22/09)http://www.kvue.com/archive/65798202.html CBS - The Early Show -... Read more »
ESP Physicians Published in Annals of Emergency Medicine
Sep 29, 2009
ESP congratulates several doctors at Austin's UMC Brackenridge for their publication in Volume 54, Number 3, September 2009 issue of Supplement to Annals of Emergency Medicine. Abstract 311 on page S97, authored by Drs. Abello, Brieger, Ziebell, Dear, Milling and King, is titled "Care Plan Program... Read more »
Dr. Pat Crocker Appointed to the Texas Medical Board
Apr 17, 2009
Texas Gov. Rick Perry appointed has seven members to the Texas Medical Board for terms to expire Apr. 13, 2015. The board protects and enhances the public's health, safety and welfare by establishing and maintaining standards of excellence used in regulating the practice of medicine and ensuring... Read more »
Frequent ER Visits Strain Hospitals, Cost Taxpayers
Apr 1, 2009
By Mary Ann Roser Austin American-Statesman April 1, 2009 In the past six years, eight people from Austin and one from Luling racked up 2,678 emergency room visits in Central Texas, costing hospitals, taxpayers and others $3 million, according to a report from a nonprofit made up of hospitals and... Read more »
ESP Assists with Hurricane Ike Disaster Relief
Sep 20, 2008
Hurricane Ike brought with it gusts of wind and a torrent of rain that affected several of ESP's hospital emergency departments. St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston was consumed with assisting those in need. It became evident Saturday afternoon that St. Joseph's was up and running with power and... Read more »

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