When three of the hospital’s orthopedic surgeons resigned their fracture privileges earlier this month, the hospital was left without an orthopedic surgeon 50 percent of the time. Hospital board members are planning a meeting with two of the surgeons this week and bringing in a third-party facilitator, according to the report.
Read the Watertown Daily Times report about Samaritan Medical Center orthopedic service.
Read other coverage on orthopedics in hospitals:
– New York’s Samaritan Medical Center Orthopedic Surgeons to Cease Treating Select Patients
– Upstate New York Hospital Targets Surgery Center for Takeover
– University of Toledo Medical Center Opens Orthopedic Unit
