Virginia Eye Institute is opening two new offices in Henrico and Chesterfield Counties, adding physicians who will feed into the practice's freestanding surgery center, according to a Times Dispatch report.
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Pinnacle III announced Thomas Eickmann, MD, a board certified orthopedic surgeon with Cornerstone Orthopedics in Wheat Ridge, Colo., recently performed a total hip replacement surgery at The Surgery Center at Lutheran in Lakewood, Colo.