Orlando Health Forms Joint Venture With Acadia Healthcare to Expand Behavioral Health Services in the Region
December 01 2021 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Orlando Health and Acadia Healthcare Company announced today
that they have formed a joint venture designed to enhance and
expand behavioral health services in the region.
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“We take great pride in providing the full continuum of care to
our patients,” said Sunil Desai, MD, president, Orlando Health
Medical Group. “This partnership sets us on a strategic path to
meet the current and future behavioral health needs in the
communities we serve.”
“We are so proud to be partnering with Orlando Health,” Dr.
Jeffrey Woods, Operations Group President for Acadia Healthcare.
“Acadia has strong and experienced leaders to support Orlando
Health’s behavioral health programs. We look forward to working
with the Orlando Health staff to continue providing exceptional
care and exploring paths to expand access to meet the great demand
in Central Florida.”
With Acadia’s partnership, the program will expand inpatient and
outpatient programs, enhance community outreach activities, improve
patient, employee and customer experience and develop new
comprehensive psychiatric strategies across the entire healthcare
system. Under the agreement, Acadia will assume management
responsibilities for the behavioral health program at Orlando
Health South Seminole Hospital. Acadia, like Orlando Health, takes
great pride in being a strong community partner, collaborating with
many organizations, hospitals and first responders in the regions
it services.
About Orlando Health
Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a
not-for-profit healthcare organization with $7.6 billion of assets
under management that serves the southeastern United States.
Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is
recognized around the world for its pediatric and adult Level One
Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level Two Adult
Trauma Center in the St. Petersburg region. It is the home of the
nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the
only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair
the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic
athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and
highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region.
Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its
Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents
and fellows. The 3,200-bed system includes 16 wholly-owned
hospitals and emergency departments; rehabilitation services,
cancer and heart institutes, imaging and laboratory services, wound
care centers, physician offices for adults and pediatrics, skilled
nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility, home
healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care
centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. Nearly 4,500
physicians, representing more than 90 medical specialties and
subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system,
which employs more than 23,000 team members. In FY21, Orlando
Health served nearly 160,000 inpatients and nearly 3.6 million
outpatients. During that same time period, Orlando Health provided
approximately $648 million in total value to the communities it
serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and
services, community building activities and more. Additional
information can be found at http://www.orlandohealth.com, or follow
us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @orlandohealth.
About Acadia Healthcare
Acadia is a leading provider of behavioral healthcare services
across the United States. As of September 30, 2021, Acadia operated
a network of 230 behavioral healthcare facilities with
approximately 10,200 beds in 40 states and Puerto Rico. With more
than 20,000 employees serving approximately 70,000 patients daily,
Acadia is the largest stand-alone behavioral health company in the
U.S. Acadia provides behavioral healthcare services to its patients
in a variety of settings, including inpatient psychiatric
hospitals, specialty treatment facilities, residential treatment
centers and outpatient clinics.
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Geo Morales Orlando Health (321) 841-5766
kena.lewis@orlandohealth.com
Gretchen Hommrich Acadia Healthcare (615) 861-6000
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