As the healthcare industry welcomes 2026, our entire ApolloMD team reaches deep into our well of corporate expertise, industry innovation and forward-thinking operating principles to energize our growth and meet the healthcare moment of 2026.

Indeed, as I reflect on 2025’s successes and consider 2026’s unknowns, I am inspired by ApolloMD’s ongoing evolution and growth, including the challenges yet to tackle. Our future is defined by:

• ApolloMD’s ongoing expansion into three new states, including the unique challenges of providing medical care from remote Alaska to population-dense Florida, a full-spectrum footprint defined by some of the country’s most economically challenged communities and busiest metropolitan emergency departments
• A long-planned and intentional recruiting boost for the emergency medicine specialty, reflected by three prestigious employer awards for our group
• Evolution of our commitment to exploring and testing new technologies, workflows and processes to increase our impact as healthcare specialists, improve patient outcomes and streamline healthcare delivery
• Strategic planning around the unknown impacts of federal and state funding cuts to American health care providers and insurers, with a growing concern that residents who can least afford health care/insurance will be most negatively impacted by cuts

Collectively, we search for solutions that can fill gaps and maintain services in the face of looming cuts to U.S. health care, especially for patients in some of the historically underserved regions where ApolloMD operates. We are determined to ideate, improve and innovate as we explore and embrace new ways of delivering care.

2025: A Year of Growth

I am both proud of and grateful for ApolloMD’s 2025 progress. We are expanding and growing. We are profitable against tough industry headwinds. Our team shows up inspired by our desire to serve patients, to support our caregivers, and to partner with our health systems to create healthier communities.

And as a team, we remain committed to valuing our own good physical, emotional and mental health as we care for our patients, many of whom arrive vulnerable and scared in the face of frightening or even life-threatening health consequences. It is our privilege to meet them, reassure them, address their challenges with confidence and competence, and provide the respectful, compassionate care that they and their communities need and rightfully deserve.

Successful, Experienced Corporate Growth

As a clinician-owned company with no outside ownership, ApolloMD is powered by an experienced corporate team that provides great stability and leadership, with tenures for many executives stretching 10-20 years or more. In COVID’s wake, our business team had shifted almost entirely to remote work while still staying virtually and personally connected with our clinicians and partners across 18 states for team meetings, updates, outreach and wellness events, training and more.

Additionally, our companywide embrace of the Servant Leadership philosophy supports ground-up and top-down ideas from all associates – whether in the C-suite or in busy treatment rooms – to explore, test and adopt new ways of delivering efficient health care. Additional innovation from our Strategic Advisory Board includes exploration of robotics and AI technologies for such activities as streamlined coding/billing (for improved financial efficiencies), AI agent assisted workflows and content creation for marketing and recruitment.

“Do Work That Matters”…a Theme That Resonates

Externally, the popularity of the award-winning TV show “The Pitt” has enhanced interest in the emergency medicine specialty among doctors-in-training. Like television’s “St. Elsewhere” (1982-88) and “ER” (1994-2009) before it, “The Pitt” delivers a powerful message that emergency medicine is a challenging, rewarding and viable medical career, something my colleagues and I know personally. If that perception resonates with medical students, they, too, can envision the amazing calling to become an emergency medicine specialist.

Tangentially, our internal operations and recruiting teams are job-shadowing our clinical ED and HM teams to gain hands-on exposure to the healthcare careers for which they are recruiting ApolloMD candidates. This in-person initiative reassures frontline employees that our recruiters understand the demands and nuances of 24/7 care so that they can more successfully identify and hire dedicated, like-minded candidates for our teams.

My hope is that individuals who are considering a health care career will understand the ApolloMD philosophy that our profession is a calling and that ApolloMD is a wonderful place to make that calling a successful reality.

ApolloMD in 18 States: Growing, Innovating to Meet Needs

Hospitals and health systems in three additional states partnered with us in 2025 for emergency medicine services, including a health care provider in the remote fishing village of Ketchikan, Alaska, and new partnerships in Kentucky and Massachusetts. Given reductions in healthcare accessibility and coverage, our teams are intentionally focused on building “the health care of tomorrow…today.”

As we face the real prospect that patients who might partially or completely lose their medical insurance will arrive in our emergency departments sicker and less able to pay, we are positioning ourselves at the forefront of an exploration of alternative-but-effective and affordable health care for economically depressed communities—both to test options and to educate the emergency medicine specialty about potential new delivery paradigms. In remote, underserved rural areas. We are pushing boundaries, asking ourselves questions such as:

• Can freestanding urgent care centers or hybrid emergency care centers, established in partnership with existing local providers, give patients more local treatment options/choices with fewer, less costly bills?
• Can virtual consultations conducted from ambulances in the field determine the best, most affordable location to transport a patient for care?
• Can some emergency care be provided efficiently and effectively by local physical/mental health therapists or community health workers?
• Can emergency fire or police responders screen patients for transfer to virtual or in-person community health services that can meet their needs quickly and more affordably?

Employee Retention & Satisfaction

As we confront the challenging decisions ahead, we prioritize our team members as the cornerstone of everything we undertake. ApolloMD proudly celebates four prestigious corporate awards: A “Best & Brightest Companies to Work For® (Atlanta)” award from the National Association for Business Resources; a “2025 Top Workplaces USA” nod from Energage; Best and Brightest in the Nation designations by the National Association for Business Resources, and a “Healthiest Place to Work” nod from the Atlanta Business Chronicle. Internally, we are bolstered by a 90% employee job satisfaction score from a 2025 survey.

Ongoing improvements to workflow, processes, care delivery, physical layout of emergency services and other tasks have bubbled up from frontline colleagues throughout the organization who examine their own responsibilities, tasks and expectations in detail, and use the data to figure out how to do things better.

We’re enthusiastically testing new ideas to see what works, and we have the bravery to pull back on those that don’t. In our “roll-up-your-sleeves” culture, we want all associates to become experts and innovators, supported by professional development opportunities, mentoring and training to help them excel, improve, pivot…and take their colleagues on the same journey.

Just as we focus on healthy patients and healthy communities, we also support ApolloMD’s clinicians and associates with physical, emotional, educational and financial services. From extensive leadership development and training opportunities to biosensors for employees’ physical-mental-emotional health monitoring, we emphasize the importance of comprehensive self-care at work and at home, and we offer benefits/services that support physical, emotional and mental resilience.

ApolloMD: At the Leading Edge of Healthcare

Much of our success and growth emerges from the relationships with our amazing hospital partners. Like ApolloMD, they share our corporate focus on delivering the best possible outcomes for their patients, their clinicians and their communities—as evidenced by multiple national benchmarks, accolades and achievements from federal agencies and independent organizations alike. As we look to 2026 and beyond, we want to remain the employee-owned healthcare group that is positioned at the leading edge of medicine, dedicated to exploring and testing how broader, high-impact healthcare will be delivered now and in the future.

In an industry that’s often challenged by regulations, funding shortfalls, malpractice/liability issues and other challenges, we stay focused on a simple message: Working in health care is a calling, and ApolloMD possesses the talent, leadership team, industry experience, expertise and vision to turn the calling into a vibrant reality.

Happy Holidays.