Emergency Physicians Medical Group history

In July 1978, the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM) was established as an affiliate specialty board of the AOA. ACOEP's first Scientific Assembly was held in 1978.

21, 1979, ABEM was formally recognized as a specialty board by the American Board of Medical Specialties.

Six hundred emergency physicians sat for the first certification examination in February 1980, with the first certification of emergency physicians by ABEM that May.

VEP was founded in 1981 to staff hospital emergency departments in California communities that needed a better solution.

In 1982, The Johns Hopkins Hospital assumed responsibility for the program's funding, and Emergency Medicine became a division within the Department of Surgery.

The practice track for AOBEM certification is also effectively closed at this point since it is restricted to those who began emergency medicine practice prior to 1986.

The organization, Board of Certification in Emergency Medicine (BCEM), was formed in 1987 to create a loophole for those choosing to practice emergency medicine without formal training.

In 1988, after a well-publicized 10-year grace period, ABEM eliminated the practice track and began to require emergency medicine residency training to qualify for the ABEM certification exam.

Also in 1989, UAEMS and the Society for Teachers of Emergency Medicine (STEM) merged to become the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). The Council of Residency Directors (CORD) was formed later as a separate entity representing residency program directors and their assistants.

In 1990, Gregory Daniel, a general surgeon practicing emergency medicine in Buffalo, New York, filed suit against ABEM and other individuals and institutions in academic emergency medicine.

In 1991, the Association of Emergency Physicians (AEP), formerly called the Association of Disenfranchised Emergency Physicians, was formed with the goal of reopening emergency medicine board certification for non-EM residency trained physicians.

The Rape of Emergency Medicine was first published anonymously by "The Phoenix" in 1992, as a quasi-fictional account of the physicians and patients harmed by egregious emergency medicine contract management group abuses.

AAEM was established in 1993 to promote fair and equitable practice environments necessary to allow emergency physicians to deliver the highest quality of patient care.

Its first Scientific Assembly was held in 1994.

In October 2015, US Acute Care announced a slate of new leaders with deep experience in scaling incredible organizations.

October 2016 was US Acute Care Solutions' coming out party.

In September 2017, US Acute Care Solutions and Cedar Park Regional Medical Center announced a new integrated acute care partnership.In December 2017, USACS and Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital formed a partnership to provide emergency services in Virginia.

In August 2018, Harrisonburg Emergency Physicians (HEP) of Harrisonburg, Virginia, elected to join the group.

In November 2020, USACS began providing hospitalist and critical care services at AHC Fort Washington Medical Center, becoming the sole Integrated Acute Care (IAC) system solution to all three AHC hospitals in Maryland.

In June 2021, VEP Healthcare Inc. (VEP) merged with US Acute Care Solutions.