UBMD Named Among 2024 Companies of the Year
By Keith Gillogly
Published January 2, 2025
A longtime leading health care provider, UBMD Physicians’ Group was named one of 10 Companies of the Year for 2024 by Buffalo Business First.
Buffalo Business First, which covers regional business news, celebrates leading Western New York companies each year based on their goals achieved, challenges overcome, and national recognition, among other qualities.
UBMD is the largest medical group in Western New York, with more than 600 doctors spanning 16 clinical practices. In addition to being physicians, UBMD medical providers also teach and supervise students and residents at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, serving as both health care providers and faculty educators.
UBMD Primary Care Established
The designation from Buffalo Business First recognizes UBMD’s banner year, which included the launch of UBMD Primary Care, a new clinical practice enhancing care for Western New Yorkers across age ranges.
UBMD Primary Care combined UBMD Family Medicine and the Division of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics of UBMD Internal Medicine in order to expand services and insurance offerings and promote easier access to providers. The new practice plan has also sought to cover and reach more people in need of primary care, especially those in underserved communities.
“We’re really trying to transform the health care of Western New York in partnership with our community,” says Allison Brashear, MD, MBA, UB's vice president for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School. “We want to make sure we’re providing that preventive care, keeping people healthy. That’s what primary care is all about.”
Availability of primary care also plays a significant role in ongoing efforts to reduce health disparites. “Access to primary care is a key strategy to address health inequalities,” says Leonard Egede, MD, the Charles and Mary Bauer Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Jacobs School.
“The goal of UBMD Primary Care is to increase access to high-quality primary care for people in Buffalo and Western New York in partnership with our colleagues who practice in the community,” says Egede, who is also president and CEO of UBMD Internal Medicine.
UBMD has long been known for its specialist care providers. But the establishment of its primary care practice expands capabilities and general patient reach while strengthening connectivity across practice areas, says Andrea T. Manyon, MD, clinical professor and chair of family medicine at the Jacobs School and president and CEO of UBMD Primary Care.
“By having a broad and accessible primary care base, it helps to strengthen interconnectivity between all the disciplines,” Manyon says.
UBMD Primary Care is looking to expand, Manyon says, noting that multiple local private primary care practices are preparing to become part of UBMD, among other plans for growth in 2025.
Additionally in 2024, UBMD achieved growth across multiple practice areas and, in the fall, opened the $30 million Northtowns Ambulatory Surgery Center by UBMD Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Amherst.
