Orthopedics

Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital will begin offering advanced options for anterior orthopedic knee and hip surgeries later this year, TAPinto Greater Olean reports.

At least six freestanding surgery centers in Albany, N.Y., that have been planned or completed within the past two years could pose a threat to area hospitals, the Albany Business Review reports.

Portland-based MaineHealth and Brewer, Maine-based Northern Light Health could lose patients to freestanding facilities moving into the area, Franklin Trust Ratings Managing Director John Morrow told the Bangor Daily News.

The Fairlawn (Ohio) Planning Commission may walk back its approval for a $100 million orthopedic hospital development project, the Akron Beacon Journal reports.

University of California San Diego Health is the state's first healthcare system to deploy Medtronic's Mazor X Stealth Edition System.

  Meriden, Conn.-based MidState Medical Center has seen a rapid increase in surgical volume and operating revenues as it ramps up recruitment efforts, according to Hartford Business Journal.

Malvern, Pa.-based Trice Medical, an orthopedic diagnostics provider, named Mark Foster CEO.

Dublin (Ohio) Methodist Hospital introduced Stryker's Mako robotic-arm-assisted knee replacement technology.

Twenty-two hospitals or health systems expanded or added orthopedics-focused centers in the first quarter of this year:

Instead of performing joint replacements, physicians at Northwestern Medicine Regional Medical Group's newly launched Hip and Knee Joint Preservation Center at Central DuPage Hospital are focusing on delaying invasive surgery through nonsurgical and minimally invasive treatments for deteriorating joints.