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Orlando Health Forms Joint Venture With Acadia Healthcare to Expand Behavioral Health Services in the Region
ORLANDO, Fla. & FRANKLIN, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Orlando Health and Acadia Healthcare Company announced today that they have formed a joint venture
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[{"type":"text","content":" ORLANDO, Fla. & FRANKLIN, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nOrlando 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.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211201005784/en/\n“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.”\n\n“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.”\n\nWith 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.\n\nAbout Orlando Health\n\nOrlando 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.\n\nFounded 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 per...