UC Los Angeles Health and Van Nuys-based Southern California Orthopedic Institute formed a strategic alliance to expand treatment options and improve access for patients.
Practice Management
A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons identified the five most academically productive orthopedic surgery programs.
The Surgical Center of Greensboro (N.C.) performed 250 total joint procedures in 2018, which was the first year of the ASC’s total knee replacement bundle program.
When Gainesville-based University of Florida Health redesigned its bundled payment model for primary total joint arthroplasty, use of post–acute care facilities decreased from 42 percent to 24 percent, according to a study in The Journal of Arthroplasty.
The Florida Orthopaedic Institute will begin using DocASAP's patient access and engagement platform at all its locations.
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Philadelphia International Medicine partnered with the Panama City-based Panama Clinic to establish an educational and clinical care exchange between physicians from eight Philadelphia-based hospitals and physicians from Latin America and the Caribbean, according to The Inquirer Daily News.
Shriners Hospital for Children –– Tampa (Fla.) will transition its services to focus on outpatient care beginning in August, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
Construction on the newest 100,000-square-foot Rush Oak Brook (Ill.) Orthopaedic Center is finished, according to RE Journals.
Amherst, N.Y.-based Excelsior Orthopaedics established a partnership to provide orthopedic surgery services to Mount St. Mary's Hospital in Lewiston, N.Y., according to Niagara Frontier Publications.
Daphne, Ala.-based Baldwin Bone & Joint teamed up with South Baldwin Regional Medical Center in Foley, Ala., according to Alabama Local News.