The Bone & Joint Center, based in Albany, N.Y., has completed its 5,000th joint replacement at its Malta, N.Y., ASC, according to a news release shared with Becker’s. The Center specializes in same-day hip and knee replacements using robotic-assisted…
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Warsaw, Ind.-based OrthoWorx has received a $1 million grant from the Don Wood Foundation in Fort Wayne, Ind., to expand career exploration and talent development programs for students across Northern Indiana, according to a July 24 Times Union report. The…
Sioux Falls, S.D.-based Sanford Health has installed the region’s first interpretive MRI at its new Sanford Orthopedics building, according to a July 25 report from Dakota News Now. The advanced imaging system, lifted into the facility by crane, will allow…
Indiana State University in Terre Haute has signed a five-year exclusive partnership with Union Health Sports Medicine to serve as the official health care provider for Sycamore Athletics, according to a news release from the university. USM will provide student-athletes…
New Brunswick, N.J.-based Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Disease-Specific Care Certification in hip fracture treatment, according to a July 24 news release from West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health. The hospital recently…
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Minneapolis-based Inovedis has completed 50 successful rotator cuff surgeries in the U.S. using its Sinefix repair system, marking growing adoption of a new method for attaching tendon to bone, according to a July 22 news release. Unlike traditional suture anchors,…
Patients who received preoperative counseling before ACL reconstruction used significantly fewer opioids after surgery without reporting more pain, according to a July 23 news release from the Baltimore-based University of Maryland School of Medicine. The randomized clinical trial, published in…
Children with early-onset scoliosis who receive a second set of magnetically controlled growing rods may experience less spinal correction than those who do not, according to a July 22 news release from Nemours Children’s Health in Wilmington, Del. The study,…
Ellie Van Gilder, PA-C, has joined the orthopedic surgery team at Essentia Health-Duluth (Minn.) Clinic, according to a July 23 news release. Ms. Van Gilder earned her degree from Midwestern University in Glendale, Ariz., and is certified by the National…
Nicholas Lemme, MD, will join the sports medicine team at Providence, R.I.-based University Orthopedics, according to a July 22 news release shared with Becker’s. Returning to his native Rhode Island from a sports medicine fellowship at Rush University Medical Center…