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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowCarmel-based Forté Sports Medicine and Orthopedics this week added five physicians to its practice and opened a new Mooresville office as part of a move to deepen its partnership with hospital system Franciscan Health.
With the move, Forté adds five orthopedic surgeons who had been orthopedic specialists for Franciscan. The surgeons will see patients at Forté’s Greenwood location as well as its new Mooresville location inside the Center for Hip and Knee Surgery at Franciscan Health Mooresville just off State Road 67.
Forté now has 26 physicians and five offices in the Indianapolis area including Carmel, Noblesville and Tipton. The move is the latest example of consolidation of physician practices and expansion of orthopedic facilities, especially in growing suburban locations, to offer a wide array of treatments.
Forté was long known as Methodist Sports Medicine before its 2021 name change. CEO Angie Stevenson said the move means more continuity for patients.
“It did not make much sense for Franciscan to have their orthopedic partner to be Forté surgeons but yet still have five employee orthopedic surgeons,” she said. “To bring them under one roof made a lot more sense.”
Stevenson added that partnerships and mergers are part of a drive among providers to offer “full body orthopedic care,” including sports medicine care, joint replacement and procedures involving the hands, ankles and feet.
“By working together with Forté, well-known for its sports medicine and orthopedic expertise, patient-centered approach and commitment to advancing care options through research, we can offer more widespread and comprehensive orthopedic care,” Lori Price, president and CEO for Franciscan Health Central Indiana, said in written comments.
The Forté expansion comes amid other moves by regional orthopedics providers.
Orthopedics is highly competitive in Indiana. In January, large practices OrthoIndy in Indianapolis, Tri-State Orthopaedics in Evansville and Fort Wayne Orthopedics announced plans to merge and create the OrthoIndiana practice with 39 locations across Indiana.
OrthoIndy also recently announced it was merging with fellow Indianapolis-based orthopedic practice the Indiana Hand to Shoulder Center.
Separately, the new $35 million Indiana Orthopedic Institute opened in February as the first tenant at Noblesville’s Innovation Mile.
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