Florida Medical Clinic on Monday announced it has formed its own post-acute care network to serve Tampa Bay residents – including 10 skilled nursing facilities.

The new network is designed for patients that need extended therapy or rehabilitation after discharge from the hospital, the Florida Medical Clinic said in a statement.

Joe Delatorre, Florida Medical Clinic CEO, seeks to better care for patients “not sick enough to stay at a hospital, but not well enough to return home.”

The Clinic hopes to offer better transitional care by partnering hospitalists – the same doctors who treated them in the hospital – with local nursing homes. Seven home health agencies and 24 hospitalists round out the post-acute network.

Patients can choose between an institutional setting or home health care while transitioning out of the hospital, the Clinic said.

“We identified a real need to eliminate the breakdown in coordination in care that happens between a critical hospitalization and the post-acute area,” Delatorre added in a statement. “FMC restructured our hospitalist program to provide the highest quality and best cost-value in the market. The result is one coordinated team taking care of our patients during hospitalization and rehabilitation.”

Founded in 1993, the Clinic includes more than 380 providers and just under 2,000 employees across more than 50 locations in Florida’s East Pasco and Hillsborough counties. Doctors in-network offer more than 40 medical specialities.