Wake Emergency Physicians, PA (WEPPA) is an independent, democratic group of emergency medicine specialists comprised of 66 physicians who are either board certified or board eligible in EM or Pediatric EM. Seven of our physicians are trained as Pediatric Emergency Medicine sub-specialists. WEPPA also utilizes 17 Mid-Level Providers who are experienced in emergency medicine.   We employ a full staff of support personnel to manage our daily operations.

WEPPA provides emergency medical services through WakeMed Health and Hospital’s Emergency Departments at the Raleigh Campus, Cary Hospital, North Healthplex, and Apex Healthplex.  In July 2005 WEPPA, in conjunction with WakeMed, opened the state’s first stand-alone emergency department at WakeMed North Healthplex.  In February 2008, we began staffing the regions second stand-alone emergency department in Apex, NC.  Physician coverage for all of these emergency department facilities is provided 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  The Emergency Department at WakeMed’s Raleigh Campus is a Level I Trauma Center, Certified Chest Pain Center and the area’s only Stroke Center.  The Raleigh Campus also houses the state’s first autonomous Children’s Emergency Department.

WEPPA physicians and physician extenders treated nearly 200,000 patients in 2007.  Over 121,000 patients were seen in the emergency department at the Raleigh Campus.  Approximately 42,500 of those treated at the Raleigh location were seen in the Children’s Emergency Department. Twenty-eight thousand patients were treated in our stand-alone emergency department at the WakeMed North Healthplex and 43,000 patients were seen at the Cary Hospital.

In addition to patient care, Wake Emergency Physicians, PA is involved in training of resident physicians.  WEPPA shares equal responsibility with the University of North Carolina’s Department of Emergency Medicine for providing didactic and clinical teaching for the Emergency Medicine Residency program from UNC-CH.  Additionally, the Children’s Emergency Department serves as the primary Pediatric Emergency Medicine teaching site for the resident physicians training at the University of North Carolina, as well as East Carolina University. In July 2008 WEPPA will very proudly begin training fellows as a part of our new Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship.   This fellowship is cosponsored with WakeMed and UNC.

WEPPA is very proud of the care we deliver each and every day to our patients.  Our relationship with WakeMed provides us the opportunity to work in outstanding emergency departments, which gives us the ability to deliver exceptional emergency care to our patients.  Our relationship with UNC and ECU also gives our group the opportunity to train physicians in the field of emergency medicine. Both the clinical and educational components of our practice make working within this group a unique and very exciting career for all of us.