Orthopedics North Star Health Alliance (NSHA) announced that it has made “the very difficult decision” to close North Country Orthopaedic Group (NCOG) and North Country Orthopaedic Ambulatory Surgery Center in Watertown, N.Y., within the next 30 to 90 days. NSHA states that the impending closures are part of its “ongoing restructuring…
Rochester Regional Health has begun construction on a $17.5 million Orthopedic and Neurosciences Center in Canandaigua, N.Y., with the goal of expanding access to specialized orthopedic and neurological care throughout the Finger Lakes region. The center, which will be built within an existing 39,000-square-foot facility, is intended to be a…
A new study evaluates the formation, implementation, and outcomes of the Musculoskeletal Quality Collaborative (MSKQC) across a Massachusetts hospital system. The study, published in The American Journal of Managed Care, states that the MSKQC, established in 2019, “comprises physician, quality, and nursing leaders from 14 hospitals” focused on value-based health…
Hip fracture surgery delays put vulnerable seniors at risk, according to a new article by a Canadian public health expert published in Hospital News. The article, written by Jason M. Sutherland, PhD, MSc, BA, professor of health services and policy and director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy…
Smith Entertainment Group (SEG), which owns the NBA’s Utah Jazz and the NHL’s Utah Mammoth, has announced a partnership with Intermountain Health to develop a sports medicine center that integrates into its sports campus in Sandy, Utah. The approximately 60,000-square-foot Intermountain Health Sports Performance Center, scheduled to open in 2028,…
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…
