Penn Highlands installs Mako robot

DuBois, Pa.-based Penn Highlands Healthcare installed Stryker’s Mako robots at two locations in its system to assist with total joint replacements, GANTNews reports.

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What you should know:

1. The hospital spent $1.5 million on the robots, which is part of a larger $110 million construction and upgrade project across the health system.

2. The robots are at the hospital’s Clearfield and DuBois campuses.

3. The robots have already been used in procedures at both facilities.

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