Emergency Care Partners
Andrew Sama is an accomplished medical professional with extensive leadership experience in emergency medicine. Since February 2019, Andrew Sama has served as Executive Vice President at Emergency Care Partners, and has held the position of President at Progressive Emergency Physicians since September 2014. Andrew Sama holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University, earned between 1977 and 1981, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology from Columbia University, completed from 1973 to 1977.
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 Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Louisiana, Florida, New York, Illinois, and North Carolina. ECP sees 1.4 million patient visits annually across operations at 54 sites of service, supported by a clinical workforce of 900+ 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 (with over 60% of physicians being shareholders today) 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 the 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, 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.