Athens (Ga.) Orthopedic Clinic, an orthopedic and sports medicine group, will serve as official team physician for Morgan County Schools in Georgia, according to a July 8 news release shared with Becker’s. Under the partnership, AOC will deliver comprehensive sports…
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S.¹ and one of the most common drivers of hospital readmission. One in five hospitalizations for COPD results in a return visit² — and for patients with…
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Peter Derman, MD, did not leave Texas Back Institute because he wanted distance from the institution. He is clear about that. After nearly eight years at the Plano-based spine group, where he served as a partner and executive committee member,…
Every spine surgeon eventually encounters an adverse event that stays with them long after the patient has left the hospital, and the profession is beginning to reckon with the psychological toll those moments take, according to an article written by…
Large language models are drawing rapid interest in spine surgery, but their value currently lies in supporting physicians rather than replacing their judgment, according to an article written by Aimen Khan, Maximillian Lee, Noah Pogonitz, Daniel Park, MD, and Kern…
Hospitals chasing better readmission performance need to go deeper into the KPI level instead of shooting blindly. The data and KPIs point to the ED, where greater than 80% to 90% of readmissions arrive through the ED. That concentration is…
Aug 11, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
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- Nik Rao, CEO, Dexur
Orthopedic groups in Connecticut and Maryland are moving in the same direction this month: pulling imaging, urgent care, rehabilitation and physician offices into single locations or unified systems. The expansions reflect a broader push among orthopedic groups to control patients’…
UChicago Medicine has added four neurosurgeons to expand its clinical and research capabilities. The health system hired Youssef Comair, MD, as section chief of neuro-oncology; Timothy Witham, MD, as section chief of spine surgery; P.B. Raksin, MD, a specialist in…
John Peloza, MD, has been a fellowship-trained spine surgeon for more than 30 years, long enough to have watched the specialty transform since the early 1990s. For most of his career, he has practiced with Midwest Orthopedic Spine Specialists in…
As oncology care continues to shift into ambulatory infusion settings, nurses are caring for sicker patients, more complex regimens, and increasingly unpredictable days. Yet many infusion centers still rely on time-based models, nurse-to-chair ratios, or single acuity scores that fail…
Jul 14, 2026 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CDT
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- Marisa Quinn, Director of Nursing, Infusion Services & Cancer Acute Care, UCSF
- Caroline Clark, Director of Guidelines and Quality, Oncology Nursing Society
- Lisa Fidyk, Associate Clinical Director, Site Administrator, Penn Presbyterian Infusion Services
- Pamela F. Tobias, Sr Director Customer Success, LeanTaaS