Welcome to Extended Care Physicians, PA

Mountain Piedmont Coastal

ECP provides primary medical care to older adults in Nursing Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, and Retirement Communities. We also offer Psychiatry whenever possible.

We currently have three practices:

• ECP-Mountain, Located in Asheville and serving Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Transylvania, and Yancey counties

• ECP-Piedmont, located in Hickory and serving Alexander, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln and Montgomery counties; and

• ECP-Coastal, located in Wilmington and serving New Hanover, Jones, Pender, Onslow, Bladen, and Brunswick counties.

• Our business office is located in Asheville, NC.

Our medical groups were formed by Physicians who really enjoy working in Long Term Care and Retirement Community settings. Each came from established office based practices with a Long Term Care component. Their experiences created an understanding of the need for systems to improve medical care for Long Term and Residential based patients. Building better systems of care is ECP's primary purpose.

ECP Physicians demonstrate their commitment to improving long term care by their active participation in the American Medical Directors Association (AMDA). All primary care physicians participate in AMDA Certified Medical Director training; eleven physicians hold the CMD certificate. All the physicians on our staff are Board Certified or Eligible in their Specialty. Areas of specialty include Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Palliative Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Psychiatry. Our staff also includes Geriatric and Family Nurse Practitioners working in collaboration with our Physicians.

Each of the three practices receives their administrative support from the affiliated management company – Geriatric Practice Management, Inc. This dedicated back-office helps the practices attract both customers and clinical staff.