FDR Medical Services

 The Assurance Of Training and Experience.

In 1999, during their final year in emergency medicine residency program, 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 contract 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 now has a combined patient volume over 80,000 visits per year.

In November of 2009, their first urgent care center opened its doors in Pittsford, New York, a suburb of Rochester. This project was headed by Dr. DiFrancesco, Dr. Filice, and Dr. Gorman. It is the first in a series of urgent care centers that is planned by FDR. Called ExcelCare, it is located at 3400 Monroe Avenue across from the Pittsford Plaza. The center has on-site radiology and laboratory testing, and is staffed with board certified physicians, RN’s, and radiology technicians.

Also in 2009, FDR expanded its role in medical education. It entered an affiliation with LECOM school of osteopathic medicine to provide high quality Emergency Medicine learning experiences for medical students at all four hospitals. A rotation was also added in the Emergency Department at DeGraff Memorial Hospital for S. U. N. Y. at Buffalo medical students.

We have been successful in offering the highest level of trained emergency specialists to the hospitals we staff for several reasons: (1) FDR is a democratic group that gives all our physicians a voice. (2) FDR is involved with the SUNY Buffalo emergency medicine residency. Each resident spends one month during his first year of training at Brooks for a rural emergency medicine rotation. (3) We offer our physicians an excellent compensation package with NO BUY-IN for partnership.


Western New York

The Western New York area offers a wide range of recreational activities. There are three professional sports teams in Buffalo with the Sabres of the National Hockey League, the Bills of the National Football League, and our triple A baseball team, the Bison’s. FDR currently has season’s tickets with four seats to every Buffalo Sabres game that are shared by our physicians and staff.

Buffalo is also home to Shea’s Performing Arts Theater which hosts many acclaimed musicals and shows. Past performances include Chicago, Jesus Christ Superstar and Melissa Etheridge. This season alone Shea’s will have Mama Mia, Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular, Legally Blonde the Musical, The Wizard of Oz, and A Chorus Line.

The area also is home to many outdoor activities with Lake Erie and Ontario just minutes away, and many championship golf courses and country clubs. Holiday Valley is rated ninth among ski resorts in the East by Ski Magazine and is only an hour to the south of Buffalo in beautiful Ellicottville, New York.

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