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CEP Physicians Staffing Palomar Medical Center ED Named San Diego Magazine’s Top Doctors

Contact: Sarah Hay
800.476.1504
hays@cep.com

(November 2005, Emeryville, California) – California Emergency Physicians Medical Group (CEP) physicians staffing the ED at Palomar Medical Center, Escondido, CA, were named in the October issue of the prestigious “San Diego” magazine as “Top Doctors” in the Emergency Medicine category.

San Diego area physicians were polled and asked to rate their peers to determine the physicians they would trust with their own families’ healthcare. For emergency care, six physicians staffing the ED at Palomar Medical Center were voted the best of the best. Russell W. Engevik, M.D.; John C. Fredericks, M.D.; David M. Lee, M.D.; Keri Lynn London, M.D.; Thomas R. Moats, M.D.; and Bing Shih Pao, M.D.

These Board-certified, emergency medicine physicians, Partners in CEP, maintain strong patient satisfaction standards and are committed to providing high quality medical care in today’s complex healthcare environment. CEP, as part of its continuous quality improvement initiatives, has developed and pioneered a number of proven best practices to expedite ED care and throughput which have been implemented at this site.

Palomar Medical Center is part of the Palomar/Pomerado Health System, and is a 319-bed acute care hospital located in Escondido, CA. The 24-hour Emergency Department is a designated trauma center; physicians working in this busy ED will treat over 45,000 patients in 2005.

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These “Top Doctors” are Partners in California Emergency Physicians Medical Group (CEP) as well as Fellows in the American College of Emergency Physicians. CEP was founded in 1975 and is a premier provider of physician staffing, management, and consulting services for Emergency Department and Ambulatory Care Practices in California, Oregon and Georgia. CEP includes more than 1,000 providers who treat almost 2.5 million patients each year. For more information on CEP, visit their website at www.cep.com.