Emory Healthcare has formed a partnership with Pennsylvania-based acute care and rehabilitation services provider Select Medical in a deal that will expand Emory’s patient reach.
In the complex joint venture, Emory’s Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, which provides inpatient and outpatient services after stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury and amputation, has been renamed Emory Rehabilitation Hospital in Partnership with Select Medical.
Emory will be the majority owner and Select Medical will provide management services for the hospital on Clifton Road NE. Staff will remain Emory Healthcare employees.
In another part of the deal, 23 outpatient clinics in metro Atlanta that operated as Select Physical Therapy have been renamed Emory Rehabilitation Outpatient Center in Partnership with Select Physical Therapy. Select Medical will manage the clinics, but staff will become Emory employees.
In a third piece of the partnership, Select Medical will become majority owner and manage three long-term acute care hospitals in the Atlanta area. Included are long-term acute care services at Emory Wesley Woods Hospital which now will operate as Select Specialty Hospital-Northeast Atlanta. Staff will become Select Medical employees.
The other two long-term acute care hospitals included in the joint venture are Select Specialty Hospital – Atlanta and Regency Hospital in East Point.
“This new partnership with Select Medical will enable us to grow our services … ,” says John Fox, president and CEO of Emory Healthcare.
Select Medical and Emory have collaborated on post-acute care since 2000, when Select Medical began leasing space from Emory University Hospital Midtown for its long-term acute care hospital.
Select Medical’s long-term acute care hospitals are highly specialized facilities for chronic, critically ill and medically complex patients in need of additional recovery time. Select Medical leases space from larger health care systems such as Emory for most of its long-term acute care hospitals.
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