Envision Healthcare Corporation announced that Envision Physician Services acquired Northside Emergency Associates, P.C., an emergency medicine physician group practice based in the Atlanta metropolitan area that provides care at Northside Hospital Healthcare System’s three hospitals.

NEA has provided emergency medicine services at Northside’s Atlanta hospital since the physician group was founded in 1973. NEA has expanded with the Northside system, and the group also provides services at Northside’s Forsyth and Cherokee hospitals. NEA has 68 clinical providers, including 40 physicians, who manage more than 170,000 annual emergency department patient encounters.

“Our group has a long and successful track record of growing with our health system partner by providing excellent patient care in our growing communities,” said Larry Brannam, M.D., President of Northside Emergency Associates. “We are encouraged to be joining Envision Physician Services at this time and providing patient care as part of a larger, more comprehensive organization that can more effectively respond to emerging reimbursement models.”

Envision Physician Services continues to focus its acquisition activities around the strategic development of services in key geographies and partnering with leading health systems. Envision recently acquired Gwinnett Emergency Specialists, which provides emergency medicine services at two North Georgia hospitals operated by Gwinnett Medical Center. With the acquisition of Northside Emergency Associates, Envision now provides both emergency medicine and anesthesia physician services across Northside’s three hospitals.

“We are successfully delivering on a vision to be the trusted partner to physicians and health systems in communities across the country,” said Robert J. Coward, President of Envision Physician Services. “Physicians are under increasing pressures to invest in systems to meet quality measures and to support health system quality reporting requirements. We are well positioned to provide these, and other key infrastructure resources, to facility-based physicians who are then able to focus on patient care.”