Straith Hospital opens pain management center: 5 key points

Practice Management

Straith Hospital for Special Surgery in Southfield, Mich., is opening a pain management center, according to Crain's Detroit Business.

Here are five key points:

 

1. The center will focus on interventional procedures and physical therapy instead of medication management.

 

2. Straith Hospital's pain management center is expected to generate 1,300 procedures and $1.5 million in revenues over its first year of operation.

 

3. Michael Drelles, DO, an anesthesiologist, will be the medical director of the pain management center.

 

4. The four-room pain management center is still under construction, but Dr. Drelles has already begun seeing patients there.

 

5. The hospital estimates pain center costs will hit $100,000. The pain center is expected to open in early September.

 

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