Crouse Medical Practice to acquire Family Practice Associates

CLAY, N.Y. — Crouse Medical Practice (CMP), a multi-specialty practice that’s part of the Crouse Health system, announced it will acquire Family Practice Associates, PLLC (FPA). 

The transaction should be complete on Jan. 22, Robert Allen, VP of communications & government affairs at Crouse Health, tells CNYBJ in an email. FPA is located at 8324 Oswego Road in the town of Clay.

“As we continue to grow primary care, we are focused on enhancing the patient experience and increasing access to care,” Dr. Seth Kronenberg, president and CEO of Crouse Health, said in the announcement. “FPA has been providing personalized, comprehensive and compassionate care for families since the early 1980s, and we are pleased to welcome them to the Crouse Health family.”

Crouse Health didn’t provide any financial terms of the acquisition agreement with FPA in the Dec. 19 announcement.

FPA, which will soon be known as CMP Family Practice, currently provides care to 50,000 patients from throughout Central New York, Crouse Health said. 

Drs. William Mailloux and John (Jack) Michaels established the primary-care practice, with Drs. Shawn Fazio, Brian Smith, and John O’Brien joining as partners shortly after. FPA currently has 13 family-practice physicians and other advanced-practice providers, including Dr. John Michaels, and Susan Moak, radiologist practitioner assistant, the son and daughter of original founder Dr. Jack Michaels, Crouse Health noted.

“We are excited to be integrated into the Crouse Medical Practice family. Our staff and providers have been delivering quality care to our patients for decades, which will be enhanced with the support of CMP’s excellent specialists and team of dedicated staff,” Jean Carnese, FPA practice administrator, said in the Crouse Health announcement. “It will also allow us to recruit providers to fill the growing need for primary care in the Northern suburbs and continue to deliver excellent care for years to come.”

CMP offers primary care and specialty care out of several locations throughout Central New York. In addition to primary care, clinical services offered through CMP include general surgery, cardiology, OB/GYN, endocrinology, pulmonology, neurosurgery, neurovascular, diabetes care and stroke care. 

CMP Family Practice will continue to operate from its current location in the town of Clay, Crouse Health said.