Orthopedics According to the Charlotte Business Journal (CBJ), OrthoCarolina has officially broken ground on its first standalone orthopedics ASC, to be located in the Steele Creek neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C. It’s expected to open by the end of 2027. Becker’s reports the center will have four ORs and two rooms for…
Connecticut-based Constitution Surgery Alliance (CSA), which develops, owns and operates ASCs, has expanded into Michigan through new partnerships with the Detroit metropolitan area’s UnaSource Surgery Center and MiOrtho Surgery Center. “Through these partnerships, UnaSource and MiOrtho will gain access to CSA’s operational expertise, data and analytics platform, and strategic resources…
Michigan Medicine announced today that The University of Michigan Board of Regents has authorized the Nathan and Catherine Forbes Sports Medicine Institute project. Scheduled for completion in fall 2028, the three-level, 100,000-square-foot facility in Ann Arbor, Mich., will serve as the hub of University of Michigan Health’s statewide sports medicine…
DISC Surgery Center at Carlsbad and Sharp HealthCare ("Sharp") have announced a strategic alliance which will find the ASC co-branded as Sharp DISC Surgery Center Carlsbad. This partnership, which builds upon DISC’s previous collaboration with what is now Sharp Tri-City Medical Center, is expected to “further expand North County San…
For the 10th straight year, Vanderbilt Health surgeons and staff spent a day providing free surgical care to qualifying uninsured and underinsured Middle Tennesseans. Vanderbilt Health’s Orthopaedics Outreach Day, which has occurred every year since 2017, finds its surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses and medical students volunteering to provide free surgical care.…
A new article in press in The Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery examines the “changing dynamics of ankle fracture care across emergency, inpatient, and ambulatory settings.” Researchers from Medical College of Georgia at Augusta (Ga.) University, Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at…
A new study published ahead of print in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons forecasts U.S. total knee arthroplasty (TKA) volumes to 2040, stating that “the shift to ambulatory surgery centers has just begun. Noting that policy changes, including removal from CMS’ Inpatient-Only (IPO) list, along with…
A new single-center, double-blind, prospective, superiority randomized controlled trial published in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine compares continuous femoral nerve blocks (CFNB) and continuous adductor canal blocks (CACB) for outpatient anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) surgery. The researchers, noting that the “comparative opioid-sparing and functional outcomes” of the two approaches are…
Axios has published a report that examines how “an overhaul of how Medicare pays hospitals for joint replacements could pare hundreds of millions of dollars in program spending while getting facilities to pay closer attention to the cost and quality of care.” The report was prompted by CMS’ expansion of…
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) has published results of its AAOS Member Insights Panel, a national research panel of 524 orthopedic surgeons, on numerous issues that relate to their practice. AAOS states that the panel “captures surgeons’ views and experiences with innovation, technology, and the products and services…
