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 2008.
Approximately
102,500 patients were seen in the emergency department at the WakeMed Raleigh
Campus. Of those treated at the Raleigh location, 39,000 were
seen in the Children’s Emergency Department. At our stand-alone emergency
department at the WakeMed Apex Healthplex 12,500 patients were treated and
30,500 patients were
treated in our stand-alone emergency department at the WakeMed North Healthplex.
The emergency department at the WakeMed Cary Hospital treated 40,800 patients.
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.