It started the way many great ideas do—over long conversations during long days.
Dr. Eduardo Ramos and Ashkan Hashemisabour, PA-C, first crossed paths during the intensity of the pandemic. In that pressure cooker of uncertainty, they forged something rare in medicine: a partnership grounded in mutual respect, trust, and a shared vision of what healthcare should feel like.
In the months and years that followed, even as the crisis eased, one thing kept bothering them. Again and again, they saw patients forced into impossible choices: wait days to see a primary care doctor, or pay dearly—in time, money, and stress—for an emergency room visit that wasn’t truly an emergency.
For two clinicians who had spent their lives in high-stakes care, this wasn’t just frustrating. It was a call to action.
Dr. Ramos had journeyed from his early days as an X-ray technician in Manhattan to medical school in the Caribbean and a residency in New Jersey. Along the way, he discovered that the heart of medicine wasn’t always about heroic rescues—it was about catching things early, helping people avoid the ER altogether. He developed a gift for seeing through symptoms to get people the right care, fast.
Ashkan’s path was rooted right here in Nevada. From CSN to UNLV, then Nevada State and Touro University, he built his education—and his calling—on homegrown dedication. His experience in women’s health, critical care, and imaging showed him the power of slowing down to treat people as people, not just patients.
Together, they began to imagine something bold: What if urgent care could be different?
Not corporate. Not cold. But local. Warm. Run by the very providers who were in the exam rooms every day. A place where you could get top-tier care and feel like someone saw you—really saw you.
By June 2023, they turned that idea into reality. A+ Urgent Care opened its doors with a simple but radical mission: to make urgent care more human.
No shareholders. No quotas. Just two clinicians running a clinic the way they’d always wished it could be.
From day one, the difference was clear. Dr. Ramos brought rapid, accurate diagnosis from years in acute care. Ashkan brought the time and presence to make patients feel heard. They equipped the clinic with advanced tools—EKG, X-ray, IV therapy—but also made space for something harder to find in modern medicine: time to listen.
Whether it was a child’s sprain, a weight-loss consultation, or a testosterone therapy regimen, patients found what they hadn’t expected—urgent care that felt like real care.
Now, as A+ celebrates its second anniversary, the numbers tell part of the story: hundreds of patients, countless successful treatments. But the real story lives in the quiet moments—the sighs of relief, the smiles at the front desk, the thank-you notes from families who never felt like just another chart.
Because at its core, A+ Urgent Care isn’t just about medicine. It’s about two people who believed healthcare could be better—and decided to build that belief into something real.
And they’re just getting started.