FDR Medical Services

The Assurance Of Training and Experience. In 1999, during their final year in emergency medicine residency, Michael Filice and Gregory DiFrancesco formed FDR medical services and after partnering with Brooks Memorial Hospital began staffing that emergency department in July 2000. A few years later, in 2003, FDR acquired the emergency service contra... ct at United Memorial Medical Center, and at that time, current partners Scott Belote, Danielle Notebaert, and Lori Michael joined the group. It was a unique and attractive situation wherein rural hospitals had staffing almost exclusively of residency trained emergency physicians. In 2005, a new emergency department was being planned at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center. Niagara Falls had brought in many groups to discuss staffing options, including both local and national groups. In the end the contract was given to FDR due to the past success and commitment toward staffing emergency departments with residency trained emergency physicians. In 2006, FDR added 5 members of the 2007 emergency medicine residency class. Each year the Buffalo program graduates 12 residents and in the past many have left the WNY area. EM graduates who elect to stay local have understandably been highly recruited and FDR has been very successful in hiring these physicians. In 2008, FDR agreed to a contract with DeGraff Memorial Hospital in North Tonawanda, New York. We currently provide staffing for the Emergency Department in this suburb of Buffalo. During the summer of 2008 the facility completed a significant remodeling that increased the square footage of the Emergency Department, and gave it a contemporary look and feel. With the addition of DeGraff, FDR was then seeing a combined patient volume over 80,000 visits per year. In November of 2009, our first urgent care center opened its doors in Pittsford, New York, a suburb of Rochester. Under the direction of Dr Difrancesco, it was the first in a series of successful and still growing urgent care centers called Accelcare. Our ...Read More