Orthopedic

Travis Ely, PA, has joined the orthopedic service team at Jones Memorial Hospital in Wellsville, N.Y., under the tutelage of Paul Axtell, MD, reports The Wellsville Daily Reporter.

Results of a new study that compared inpatient and outpatient satisfaction levels after total joint arthroplasty found that outpatients were just as satisfied, and in some cases more satisfied, than inpatients post-surgery.

Richard A. Berger, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, has become the first physician in the country to perform 10,000 outpatient minimally invasive joint replacement surgeries.

Mehrun Elyaderani, MD, will be the next president of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland & Northern Ohio, Crain's Cleveland Business reports.

Logansport (Ind.) Memorial Hospital added orthopedic surgeon Kral Varhan, MD, to the Logansport Memorial Physician Network, the Pharos-Tribune reports.

Twin Cities Orthopedics, an independent specialty practice serving Minnesota's Twin Cities and western Wisconsin, welcomed its first neurosurgeon, Frederick Harris, MD, to its medical staff.

Board-certified orthopedic surgeon Michael Nett, MD, was named to chair of orthopedics at South Side Hospital in Bay Shore, N.Y., reports Newsday.

AdventHealth Daytona Beach (Fla.) earned The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval for its total shoulder, hip and knee replacement programs, The Gainesville Sun reports.

The wife of a deceased patient filed a lawsuit alleging negligence against State College, Pa.-based University Orthopedics Center orthopedic surgeon Kenneth Cherry, MD, the Centre Daily Times reports.

Sanford Aberdeen (S.D.) Medical Center added orthopedic surgeon Charles Hughes, MD, to its staff, AberdeenNews.com reports.