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Harbor House Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Hingham, Mass., announced it will open a new, dedicated short-term orthopedic unit on June 11.

Tell City, Ind.-based Ivy Tech Community College announced the appointment of Tom Till as director of the college's Orthopedic and Advanced Manufacturing Training Center in Warsaw, Ind.

More than 70 percent of CIOs support the proposed one-year extension of meaningful use stage 2 that would result in its continuation into 2016, according to a snap survey by healthsystemCIO.com in May.

Brian Cole, MD, MBA, and Anthony Romeo, MD, have recently been named on an Oxford University Press-released list of the world's top orthopedic surgeons who have had the highest impact factor on the world of orthopedic literature.

On May 21, Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Institute, founded by board-certified orthopedic surgeon Michael Boothby, MD, broke ground on a two-story, 20,000-square-foot facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

Russell Warren, MD, board-certified orthopedic surgeon of Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, will perform knee surgery on New York Giants fullback Henry Hynoski, according to an ESPN New York report.

At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago, Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, will give a presentation titled "15 CPT and Coding Issues for Orthopedics and Spine."

A few years ago, Auburn-based Central Maine Orthopaedics, which includes a surgery center performing 2,000 procedures per year, devised a plan to stop spending money on advertising and start focusing their attention and resources on relationship building.

Jason Defee, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, has joined Pecos County Memorial Hospital in Fort Stockton, Texas, according to a report by The Fort Stockton Pioneer.

Phoenix-based Valley Orthopedics announced that four of its physicians will provide orthopedic and spine care at its new location in Paradise Valley, Ariz.