Here are five things to know:
1. The center’s surgeons completed their first outpatient total knee, hip and shoulder replacements.
2. Danbury Orthopedics is collaborating with the Ridgefield Visiting Nurses Association to offer more care for outpatients. Nurses check up on patients at home for a week following procedures.
3. Currently, only some of the practice’s patients are eligible for outpatient surgery, but the number is expected to grow as the program expands.
4. The surgeons perform the outpatient procedures in the practice’s surgical facility that opened last year.
5. Danbury Orthopedics includes 11 orthopedic surgeons and one pain management specialist.
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