EMA selected to staff RWJ Rahway's Emergency Department

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway (RWJ Rahway), a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Health System, has announced the selection of Emergency Medical Associates (EMA), one of the country's premier emergency physician groups, to staff its Emergency Department. EMA (www.ema-ed.com) began staffing the Emergency Department on April 1, 2010.

“We selected Emergency Medical Associates because of their reputation for high quality patient care, extensive history of improving patient satisfaction and cutting-edge approach to reducing ED wait times and improving ED operations”

"We selected Emergency Medical Associates because of their reputation for high quality patient care, extensive history of improving patient satisfaction and cutting-edge approach to reducing ED wait times and improving ED operations," said Kirk C. Tice, President & CEO, RWJ Rahway.

"The Emergency Department is the front door to the hospital and for many patients their first experience with a hospital is through the ED. We are excited and confident that we made the right decision in selecting EMA to staff our Emergency Department with board certified and board eligible emergency physicians. We are also pleased to announce that Michael Bernstein, MD, MBA, has been selected as Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine," continued Mr. Tice.

In EMA-staffed hospital emergency departments, they have been able to achieve patient satisfaction rankings greater than the 90^th percentile, as measured by a national patient satisfaction survey. EMA providers saw close to one million patients at EMA-staffed client hospital emergency departments in 2009.