Orthopedic

Consolidation can potentially be both beneficial and harmful to orthopedic practices. 

Neal ElAttrache, MD, successfully performed knee surgery on Charles Omenihu, a player for the Kansas City Chiefs.

Rapidly growing management organization U.S. Orthopaedic Partners is one of the largest orthopedic MSOs in the U.S., with nearly 100 partner physicians. 

Two medical office buildings in Boynton Beach, Fla., have sold for $20.5 million, including one housing the Orthopedic Center of Palm Beach, according to a Feb. 22 report from The Real Deal. 

The Salem, Ore.-based Willamette Surgery Center, which provided joint replacements for patients in the area for over 20 years, will be demolished after closing its doors last fall, according to a Feb. 21 report from the Salem Reporter.

Sports medicine, exercise and musculoskeletal specialist Richard Weiler, MD, PhD, has joined AI Nexus Healthcare's advisory board. 

Brian Cole, MD, was named acting chair of orthopedic surgery at Rush University after Joshua Jacobs, MD, stepped down, according to an internal email shared with Becker's.

West Palm Beach-based Hospital for Special Surgery Florida named Heather Woolf, RN, as vice president for its Palm Beach County facilities.

Over two weeks since first crashing, computer systems are still down at Vancouver, Wash.-based Rebound Orthopedics & Neurosurgery, according to a Feb. 20 report from The Columbian. 

James "Hutch" Huddleston, III, MD, is the new president of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, the organization said Feb. 20.