Colon and Rectal Clinic of Orlando Joins with Orlando Health

Orlando, FL (October 6, 2022) – The Colon and Rectal Clinic of Orlando (CRC) is joining Orlando Health to create the Orlando Health Colon and Rectal Institute.

The agreement will add CRC’s seven physicians, who are board-certified in colorectal surgery and general surgery, to Orlando Health’s team of nationally recognized cancer treatment specialists.

“We’re thrilled to have our colleagues at CRC join the Orlando Health family,” said Margo Shoup, MD, MBA, president of Orlando Health Cancer Institute. “Our relationship with their group goes back many years and we’re looking forward to continuing to enhance the level of colon and rectal care our patients receive.”

CRC and Orlando Health have a long history of collaboration, including recently earned recognition from the National Accreditation Program in Rectal Cancer (NAPRC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons. Achieving accreditation requires compliance with the high standards set forth by NAPRC, which sets top benchmarks for cancer care in quality, systemwide team collaboration, and excellence in patient outcomes. The achievement places Orlando Health Cancer Institute among only 62 other centers nationwide that have received NAPRC accreditation.

“We’re proud to join Orlando Health, an organization with a rich history of providing exceptional quality care to the communities it serves,” said Paul Williamson, MD, managing partner at the Colon and Rectal Clinic of Orlando. “We have worked closely with the organization for more than 40 years as their primary colon and rectal surgery group and we look forward to working with our colleagues to enhance patient access to innovative and quality care.”

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $8 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States.

Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only 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 performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows. The 3,200-bed system includes 10 award-winning hospitals, 9 hospital based ERs, and 7 free-standing emergency rooms; rehabilitation services, cancer and heart institutes, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, physician offices for adults and pediatrics, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. More than 4,200 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 23,000 team members. In FY21, Orlando Health served more than 160,000 inpatients and 3.6 million outpatients. During that same time period, Orlando Health provided approximately $648 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more. Additional information can be found at http://www.orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @orlandohealth.