The anesthesia department at Northern Light Blue Hill (Maine) Hospital is providing a continuous peripheral nerve catheter as an alternative to postoperative pain management, reports The Ellsworth American.
Practice Management
Philadelphia-based Hahnemahn University Hospital decertified its position as a Level 1 and Level 2 trauma center, reports Philadelphia Business Journal.
Newburgh, Ind.-based Ascension Saint Vincent Orthopedic Hospital, focusing on spine, bone and joint care, will open in July, reports Courier & Press.
Pensacola, Fla.-based Baptist Health Care unveiled plans for a $550 million campus to replace its current facilities, which opened in 1951, local NPR affiliate WUWF reports.
Little Rock-based University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences launched a telemedicine-based spine care clinic, Arkansas Money & Politics reports.
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New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System opened the Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai-Union Square, providing specialist care for elders.
MemorialCare Joint Replacement Center at Long Beach (Calif.) Medical Center installed the ExactechGPS Guided Personalized Surgery for shoulder replacement procedures, reports Biospace.
Orthopedic surgeon at Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Shawn O'Driscoll, MD, designed a new system for assessing patient-reported outcomes.
Kenneth Sun, MD, a pain management physician with locations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, has been indicted for his role in a kickback scheme for prescribing large volumes of fentanyl narcotics.
UCHealth Steadman Hawkins Clinic Denver opened June 25, and providers expected to see 100 patients that day.