Practice Management

Canton, Ohio-based Omni Orthopaedics will build a new surgery center in Jackson Township, Ohio, The Suburbanite reports.

Oak Orthopedics' location in Bradley, Ill., had to close for two days after a water main broke by the building, the Daily Journal reports.

Manhattan (Kan.) Surgical Hospital partnered with Topeka, Kan.-based Stormont Vail Health to improve healthcare services in Manhattan, according to The Topeka Capital-Journal.

Morgantown-based West Virginia University Medicine is currently the only providers in the state to acquire the Mazor X robotic surgical guidance system, according to WBOY-TV, a dual NBC and ABC affiliate.

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care listed Laser Spine Surgery Center in Tampa, Fla., as a finalist for its 2018-19 Bernard A. Kershner Innovations in Quality Improvement Award, according to the Missourian.

New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery installed virtual reality surgical training software to assist with orthopedic surgery residency training, according to ABC affiliate WABC.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health opened its $13.5 million orthopedic hospital at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream in North Valley Stream, N.Y., Newsday reports.

The new MemorialCare Neuroscience Institute opened at Saddleback Medical Center in Laguna Hills, Calif.

Orthopedic single-specialty ambulatory surgery centers comprise 4.3 percent of Medicare-certified ASCs, according to CMS data reported by the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association.

Researchers at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine designed a computer program that may help surgeons avoid spinal surgery errors linked to wrong-level labeling.