TeamHealth Acquires Florida Acute Care Specialists

Knoxville, TN - TeamHealth recently announced the acquisition of the operations of Florida Acute Care Specialists (FLACS), expanding its hospital medicine division to 400 hospitalists serving more than 80 hospitals. Sources at TeamHealth say that this acquisition solidifies TeamHealth's position as one of the largest hospital medicine groups in the nation.

FLACS was established in 1996 with an aim to provide comprehensive inpatient resource management to hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and long-term acute care facilities. The group has more than 100 full-time hospitalists who manage the inpatient care of approximately 100,000 patients a year. Through contracts with multiple health plans and hospitals, FLACS has a presence in more than 50 Florida hospitals and has a newly established market in Puerto Rico.

SOURCE: TeamHealth