Shawn Price, MD, on March 18 opened Fortis Orthopaedic & Sarcoma Group in Louisville, Ky., according to PR Leap.
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OrthoConnecticut opened its fifth OrthoCare Express location in New Milford, according to Southbury Hamlethub.
Atlanta-based Resurgens Orthopaedics plans to keep its 24 locations open as it combats the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Parkview Health is suspending elective and non-urgent surgeries at all but two facilities to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to a March 17 announcement.
With five fully staffed clinics in operation, Georgia Spine & Orthopaedics is offering to care for patients whose elective hospital procedures were canceled or delayed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a March 18 statement posted online.
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A person drove their car into the side of Pain and Spine Specialists of Idaho in Idaho Falls, EastIdahoNews.com reports.
The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati is opening several drive-thru COVID-19 testing sites, including one at the Joint & Spine Center at its main campus on March 19, reports Fox19.
Sanjay Gupta, MD, a neurosurgeon at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and CNN's chief medical correspondent, reported March 17 that nine Emory University physicians tested positive for COVID-19.
The board of Elizabethtown, Ky.-based Hardin Memorial Health approved a $1.8 million clinic to expand orthopedic care in the community, according to The Lane Report.
Orthopedic Associates' main office in St. Louis was acquired by Flagler Investment, a healthcare property holdings firm, according to local station KSDK-TV.