Orthopedic

Rochester, N.Y.-based UR Medicine will break ground on a $240 million orthopedic campus at Marketplace Mall in the coming weeks, NBC affiliate WHEC reported March. 4.

Here are four orthopedic surgeons making headlines over the past week:

Billings (Mont.) Clinic purchased two buildings to expand its orthopedic and outpatient imaging services in Wyoming, Cody Enterprise reported March 1.

A Green Township, Ohio, orthopedic surgeon was sentenced March 1 to 40 months in prison for prescribing an excessive amount of opioids, Cincinnati.com reports.

Spectrum Healthcare Partners, a multispecialty group with more than 200 physicians in South Portland, Maine, installed NextGen Healthcare's EHR system to streamline workflows in its orthopedics division.

Carl Seon, MD, of UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pa., underwent a double lung transplant after complications of COVID-19, local CBS affiliate KDKA reports.

St. Joseph, Mo.-based Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Center opened its expansion Feb. 26, reports News-Press Now.

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis named Ryan Calfee, MD, as director of hand and microsurgery.

Concord (N.H.) Hospital's looming acquisition of LRGHealthcare in Laconia, N.H., has raised concerns about access to orthopedic care in the community, but leaders of the organizations are trying to push the deal through, The Laconia Daily Sun reports.

Here are four orthopedic surgeons making headlines over the past week: