Private equity firm Trivest Partners invested in Lexington, Ky.-based Bluegrass Orthopaedics, creating a nationally focused orthopedic management services organization.
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Allscripts Healthcare Solutions on Jan. 26 teamed with private equity-backed U.S. Orthopedic Alliance to support growth initiatives with orthopedic practices nationwide.
Norwood, Ohio-based Mayfield Brain & Spine is seeking a CEO after former CEO Mike Farrington left the practice for an undisclosed healthcare opportunity in New Jersey on Jan. 22, Hunt Scanlon Media reports.
Minneapolis-based Twin Cities Orthopedics would be included in a proposed medical office building development in Brooklyn Park, Minn., according to a Jan. 24 report from CCX News.
Work on a 32,000-square-foot medical office is expected to begin next month adjacent to West Coast Joint and Spine Surgery Center in El Dorado Hills, Calif., the Mountain Democrat reports.
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A patient who has had four spine surgeries at Phoenix-based HonorHealth pledged $21.5 million to develop the Bob Bové Neuroscience Institute at HonorHealth, the Scottsdale Progress reports.
OrthoLoneStar launched on Jan. 1 as the largest independent orthopedic practice in Texas.
Neurosurgeon Hilarie Tomasiewicz, MD, PhD, was named the first site chief of neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Queens (N.Y.) in January, the Queens Gazette reports.
There are more than 170 ASCs that perform minimally invasive spine surgery in the U.S. In the past four months, Becker's has reported on five new and proposed spine surgery centers:
A $5 million donation from a spinal cord injury patient at Great Plains Health in North Platte, Neb., has helped bolster emergency services at the hospital, the Omaha World-Herald reports.