Community members, project partners, local leaders, and media were on hand as Slocum Orthopedics hosted a public Girder Signing event over the weekend at the construction site of what will become its new orthopedics ASC in Eugene, Ore. “The event marks an important construction milestone for the new physician-owned orthopedic surgery…
The Rehabilitation and Community Providers Association (RCPA), a 400-member Pennsylvania health and human services trade association, endorsed an aspect of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) fiscal year 2027 hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) proposed rule. Its statement regards CMS’ proposal to expand its Comprehensive Care for Joint…
At some point in our lives, most of us have dropped food on the ground, quickly picked it up, and ate it – the classic “five-second rule.” Should surgical teams apply the same “rule” when an instrument hits the floor in the OR? Most healthcare providers likely would think not,…
Newspaper The Sun Chronicle reports on plans to build a joint-venture, single-specialty orthopedic ASC at Reservoir Landing, a shopping and business center in Mansfield, Mass. Sturdy Health – University Orthopedics Center for Orthopedic Surgery, a joint venture between Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Attleboro, Mass., and University Orthopedics, would join neighbors at…
U.S. News & World Report has released its 2026 Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers ratings. Using data provided by health insights provider Arcadia, U.S. News evaluated 4,421 ASCs nationwide. That’s well short of the total number of ASCs in the U.S., due to the fact that the ratings focus exclusively on…
A study by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) found that heat generated by alternating magnetic fields (AMF) helps common antibiotics work better against prosthetic joint infections. The study, published in Scientific Reports and promoted by UTSW last week, demonstrated the efficacy of AMF in eradicating bacteria-protecting biofilm from the surface…
Ascension St. Vincent’s and Southeast Orthopedic Specialists (SOS) have opened a new orthopedic and spine ASC in St. Augustine, Fla. The 18,500-square-foot ASC puts the finishing touch on a 37,000-square-foot orthopedic and spine campus built to provide more convenient access to comprehensive musculoskeletal care for patients in the Jacksonville, Fla.-area counties of…
Guthrie, a not-for-profit, integrated health care system that operates in the states of New York and Pennsylvania, last week opened the Guthrie Broome Orthopedic and Spine Surgery Center in Johnson City, N.Y. The purpose-built center, which Guthrie has nicknamed “G-BOSS,” opened after completing 28 surgeries since its soft launch earlier…
ORA Orthopedics last week relocated its Bettendorf, Iowa, orthopedic clinic and outpatient surgery center to a new $50 million facility in the same town. ORA’s medical, outpatient surgery and physical therapy facilities have migrated to a 113,000-square-foot clinic, surgery center and administrative headquarters next to the town’s TBK Bank Sports Complex.…
A group of five orthopedic surgeons last week launched The Hand, Wrist & Elbow Institute at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush. The surgeons -- Mark Cohen, MD, John Fernandez, MD, Robert Wysocki, MD, Xavier Simcock, MD, and Nitin Goyal, MD -- are team doctors for the Chicago White Sox and the…