Potentially infected scope at Kaiser Permanente facility puts 23 at risk & more: 4 GI practices in the news

Here are four practices with gastroenterology services making news:

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Twenty-three patients at Kaiser Permanente’s Largo (Md.) Medical Center were treated with an improperly sterilized scope during their colonoscopy or upper endoscopy procedure.

Centers for Gastroenterology in Greeley, Colo., signed an agreement to move its medical office.

Rockford (Ill.) Gastroenterology Associates President Arnold Rosen, MD, is retiring after 27 years in practice.

U.S. News & World Report released its top pediatric gastroenterology hospital rankings and Boston Children’s Hospital was first.

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