Extended Care Physicians

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

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), and the Long Term Care Vision Group. 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, Physician Assistants, Geriatric, Adult, and Family Nurse Practitioners working in collaboration with our Physicians.

We currently have three practices:

• ECP-Mountains - Located in Asheville and serving Buncombe, Clay, Cleveland, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Rutherford, Transylvania and Yancey counties.

• ECP-Piedmont - Located in Hickory and serving Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Gaston and Wilkes counties.
• ECP-Coastal - Located in Wilmington and serving Beaufort, Bladen, Craven, Jones, New Hanover, Onslow, Robeson and Sampson counties.

Our business office is located in Asheville, NC.

Rod Baird selected for new Innovation Advisors Program to improve care for patients

Congratulations Rod!

Today, ECP announced that Rod Baird has been selected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Innovation Advisors Program.

The initiative, launched by the CMS Innovation Center in October 2011, will help health professionals deepen skills that will drive improvements to patient care and reduce costs.

Rod Baird is one of 73 individuals from 27 States and the District of Columbia participating in the Innovation Advisors Program. After an initial orientation phase, Innovation Advisors will work with the CMS Innovation Center to test new models of care delivery in their own organizations and communities. They will also create partnerships to find new ideas that work and share them regionally and across the United States.
Funding for this initiative was made possible by the Affordable Care Act.

“There has been an incredible groundswell of interest in becoming an Innovation Advisor. It’s clear that doctors, hospitals and health care providers are enthusiastic about implementing the Affordable Care Act and strengthening our health care system,” said CMS Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner.

The 73 individuals were selected from 920 applications through a competitive process, and include clinicians, allied health professionals, health administrators and others. By attending in-person meetings as well as remote sessions to expand their skills and applying what they learn, the Advisors will be able to deepen their knowledge in health care economics and finance, population health, systems analysis, and operations research.