Economic and generational shifts have resulted in many experts predicting changes in how orthopedic and spine services are run in hospitals. Here are four trends in how hospitals and ASCs operate orthopedics and spine lines.
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Implants for procedures can either make or break a hospital's profits when it comes to orthopedic surgery. Good contracts for these items consist of more than just a low price; other factors such as quality and payor issues are also…
Chicago-based National Surgical Hospitals, an owner, operator and developer of surgical hospitals and surgery centers in partnership with local physicians, has opened its newest surgical hospital, South Texas Surgical Hospital, in Corpus Christi, Texas, according to an NSH news release.
The University of Toledo (Ohio) Medical Center has opened the new UT Mobility Disorders, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Inpatient Center, which will bring all aspects of orthopedic and rehabilitation care together in a single area of the hospital, according to a…
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Community General Hospital in Syracuse, N.Y., has opened its new $7.6 million orthopedics unit on the sixth floor of the hospital, according to a report in The Post-Standard.
Alpharetta, Ga.-based SANUWAVE Health, an emerging medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of non-invasive, biological response activating devices in the regenerative medicine area, has appointed Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, director of plastic surgery research and head of…
Changes are needed in the programs that train orthopedic surgeons to ensure these doctors are adequately trained, according to a study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, published in the January issue of the Journal of…
An increasing trend among orthopedic physicians is employment by a hospital or hospital group. If a practice is bought or affiliated with a specific hospital or hospital system, surgeons may be required to perform surgeries at more than one hospital…
Jeffrey Gilles, MD, will join Orthopaedic Specialists of Wyoming, which is owned by Campbell County Memorial Hospital in Gillette, Wyo., according to the Gillette News-Record.