Piedmont Healthcare and OrthoAtlanta Launch Partnership

Piedmont Healthcare, with locations across the state of Georgia, and OrthoAtlanta have announced a new partnership that has resulted in Piedmont Orthopedics | OrthoAtlanta, an entity which will offer patients full-service musculoskeletal and sports medicine care across Georgia.

Piedmont Orthopedics | OrthoAtlanta currently staffs its 13 integrated musculoskeletal centers, 7 outpatient imaging centers, 13 outpatient physical therapy sites and 2 outpatient surgical centers clinics with 40 orthopedic and sports medicine physicians and physiatrists and 37 advanced practice providers.

“This partnership is an incredible opportunity for Piedmont and OrthoAtlanta to raise the bar on how orthopedics and sports medicine can be delivered throughout the state of Georgia,” said Michael S. Ochal, CEO, OrthoAtlanta and IntraHealth Group, the management organization for OrthoAtlanta. ‘We are incredibly proud to be a part of this partnership.”

“It is our goal to provide comprehensive care close to home and the talented physicians, therapists and employees of OrthoAtlanta will help us to fulfill that goal for our patients through the Piedmont Orthopedics umbrella,” Piedmont Healthcare President and CEO Kevin Brown said. “This agreement will provide an increase in the providers available to serve Piedmont’s growing patient population and an expansion of locations and service modalities to ensure the most convenient, safe, and cost-effective care.”

Michael J. Mandl, executive VP of Piedmont Healthcare, added more color to the reasons behind this business combination to OTW, “The talented physicians, therapists and employees of OrthoAtlanta will help us to fulfill our goal of providing comprehensive care close to home. Operating under the Piedmont Orthopedics umbrella, this partnership is a significant component of Piedmont’s overall orthopedic network, servicing the citizens of Georgia. The partnership is built on mutual trust, respect, and principles centered around the collective goal of providing safe, convenient, cost-effective care.”

Piedmont Healthcare is the largest healthcare provider in Georgia, making the combined Piedmont Orthopedics | OrthoAtlanta partnership even stronger. “In collaboration with its physician partners, Piedmont is building the premier, preferred network of orthopedic care in the state of Georgia, delivering the highest-quality, cost-effective care in a patient-centered, coordinated-care model. To achieve this outcome, Piedmont is deploying a variety of models from employment of physicians to partnerships that vary somewhat in their characteristics, but all will be aligned in quality, clinical governance, patient satisfaction, and cost effectiveness.”

Asked where he hopes they are one year from now, Mandl told OTW, “We look forward to operating seamlessly with great satisfaction experienced by our patients and our physician partners.”