Emergency Care Partners (ECP), a leading national emergency medicine services provider, has announced the completion of a strategic merger with The Emergency Center of Arizona (TEA).
TEA is a physician-led emergency medicine services provider operating freestanding emergency centers in Arizona. Staffed by approximately 200 board-certified physicians and specialty-trained nurses, TEA provides emergency care for a wide range of medical conditions, serving communities with accessible, hospital-level services outside traditional hospital settings.
ECP is a portfolio company of Varsity Healthcare Partners and Regal Healthcare Capital Partners. The company provides emergency medicine and outsourced emergency department management services to hospital facilities across Louisiana, New York and Pennsylvania.
TEA’s providers will continue delivering emergency care while leveraging ECP’s model, combining local physician equity partnerships with a differentiated clinical analytics platform. ECP remains a majority physician-owned organization, and the addition of TEA further strengthens its national network of aligned groups. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
According to data captured in the LevinPro HC database, this transaction represents the first freestanding emergency room acquisition of 2025. There were two freestanding emergency room deals announced during 2024, and seven announced during 2023.
