Here are 11 hospitals expanding their spine and neurosurgery programs.
Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia, Calif., is now offering an around-the-clock neurosurgery program.
Kirk Clifford, MD, and James Gebhard, MD, joined Community Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., where they will start an orthopedic spine surgery program.
Michael Vitale, MD, Ronald Leeman Jr., MD, and Lawrence Lenke, MD, of New York City-based New York-Presbyterian Columbia Orthopedics, developed best practice guidelines for wrong level spinal deformity surgery.
Greenville (S.C.) Shriners Hospital began offering halos as a scoliosis treatment.
UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center in Steamboat Springs, Colo., submitted three expansion plan proposals.
Maimonides Medical Center in New York City officially opened its Comprehensive Spine Center on Feb. 27.
Missoula City Council approved Missoula (Mont.) Bone & Joint's proposal to open a new outpatient center.
Southern Plains Medical Center in Chickasha, Okla., affiliated with the Oklahoma Spine Hospital in Oklahoma City to expand its spine services.
Milwaukee-based Froedtert and Medical College of Wisconsin announced construction on a new West Bend (Wis.) Health Center is set to begin later this year.
Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare teamed up with Atlanta Brain & Spine Care under a professional services agreement.
EvergreenHealth recently opened its Neuroscience, Spine & Orthopedic Institute in Kirkland, Wash.