Orthopedic

Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum underwent surgery to repair a ruptured Achilles tendon at New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery on May 13, according to a May 14 report from ABC affiliate WCVB. The surgery was performed by HSS…

Orthopedic surgeon and longtime head team physician for the UCLA athletics department Gerald Finerman, MD, has died at the age of 86.  Dr. Finerman, who served as UCLA’s head team physician from 1971 to 2013, died May 3. During his…

Las Vegas-based Crovetti Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine has added Dennis Jackson, MD, to its team, according to a May 8 report from Nevada Business. Dr. Jackson began seeing patients at Crovetti’s Las Vegas and Henderson, Nev.-based offices on May 1. …

Insight Surgery raised $2.5 million in financing to scale its FDA-cleared EmbedMed orthopedic platform. Nodenza Venture Partners led the financing round, according to a May 14 email shared with Becker’s. EmbedMed is a digital platform that creates patient-specific guides for…

Orthopedics remains a key growth area for Surgery Partners with total joint replacements driving increases in volume, CEO J. Eric Evans said in a May 12 earnings call. Surgery Partners facilities saw more than 29,000 orthopedic cases in the first…

Hartford-based St. Francis Hospital’s Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute has completed 50,000 procedures. The institute first opened in 2007 and is one of the largest centers in Connecticut offering total and partial joint replacement for hips, knees and shoulders, according to…

Cincinnati Athletics has been named the Big 12 Sports Medicine Staff of the Year, according to a May 12 news release from the University of Cincinnati.  This is the first time UC has received this recognition, which recognizes programs for…

Healthgrades honored 377 hospitals for its 2025 Outstanding Patient Experience Award, and 13 of them are spine and orthopedic specialty centers. Healthgrades analyzed data from 3,059 hospitals that submitted at least 100 patient experience surveys to CMS between January and…

Daniel Hatz, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs (Iowa), will now offer part-time services at CHI Health Missouri Valley (Iowa), according to a May 11 report from The Daily Nonpareil. Dr. Hatz now had two offices,…

ActiMed Orthopedics has invested in Chicago-based medical device company EDGe Surgical, known for developing the Ortho EDG, a single-use digital depth gauge for orthopedic surgery. ActiMed is focused on scaling technologies that help reduce surgical inefficiencies and improve patient outcomes…