Author: Alan Condon

Winchester, Va.-based Valley Health is opening a 40,000-square-foot facility in Spring Mills, Va., April 6, reports The Journal.

Mercy Health is partnering with Chicago-based VillageMD and Murray, Ky.-based Primary Medical Center to open a neurosurgery practice in Murray, reports The Paducah Sun.

Swastik Sinha, MD, of The Orthopaedic Institute of Southern Illinois will begin seeing patients March 5 at Memorial Hospital in Chester, Ill., reports The Southern Illinoisan.

The American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons approved of CMS' proposed rule to the comprehensive care for joint replacement model in a Feb. 28 statement.

Here are 13 spine and neurosurgeons making the news this week:

Interim pediatric neurosurgeons at Children's Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha, Neb., are leaving after the first week of March, reports WOWT.

Resurgens Orthopaedics on Feb. 27 was named a Top Atlanta Workplace for the 10th consecutive year by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The spine surgery program at Johnstown, Pa.-based Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center was named a Blue Distinction Center for Spine Surgery by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, reports The Tribune-Democrat.

Emergency medicine Robert Glatter, MD, recently accepted a position as a network physician for the U.S. Soccer Federation.

Markus Chwajol, MD, a neurosurgeon with Chicago-based UI Health, is opening a restaurant in the city Feb. 28, reports Eater Chicago.