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Joe Zasa, co-founder of ASD Management, has years of experience with surgery center managers. He has seen the good — administrators whose centers run like well-oiled machines, whose employees sing their praises without being prompted. And he has seen the…

Hallmark Health System, based in Medford, Mass., has opened its Center for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, according to a Medford Transcript report.

Melvin Hayashi, MD, an orthopedic and sports medicine physicians, has passed away from complications stemming from esophageal cancer, according to a Ventura County Star report.

Brandon D. Larkin, MD, a sports medicine physician with St. Peters (Mo.) Bone & Joint, has presented results from last year's concussion program to Fort Zumwalt's board of education, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

Relmada Therapeutics today announced that $3 million in Series A proceeds from stakeholders and investors will be used to continue the development of the opioid LevoCap.

Pain management physician David S. Cheng, MD, will join Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago in August.

At the end of the month Derek Weichel, MD, will become the newest addition to Beatrice Community Hospital in Beatrice, Neb., and one of the only fulltime orthopedic surgeons in the city, according to the Beatrice Daily Sun.

Texas Orthopaedic Association Executive Director Donna Parker was selected as the Executive Director of the Year at the National Orthopaedic Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C, according to an AAOS Now report.

Roughly three out of five payors believe their organization will "definitely" be ready to meet the new ICD-10 compliance date of Oct. 1, 2014, according to a survey from HealthEdge.

In the second quarter of 2012, Moody's Investors Service recorded 12 credit downgrades within the non-profit hospital sector compared with nine upgrades, and the amount of downgraded debt also exceeded the dollar amount of upgraded debt.