What you should know:
1. The hospital began the certification process in 2016.
2. The hospital started the process by partnering with Stryker and forming a multidisciplinary team at the hospital.
3. More than 100 people helped shape the hospital’s joint replacement program.
4. The DNV-GL team said it rarely awards the certification to community hospitals but said Community Hospital’s program was a “phenomenal program.”
5. Eighty-eight percent of the hospital’s patients go home the day after surgery.
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