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Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center announced the completion of its new patient pavilion that includes an operating room for brain and spine care.

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center announced that its neurosurgeons — Ali Rezai, MD, and Dr. Milind Deogaonkar, MBBS — are among the first in the U.S. to successfully implant an MRI-safe spinal cord stimulator that will help relieve…

ProMedica Fostoria (Ohio) Community Hospital announced that it has partnered with Northwest Ohio Orthopedics and Sports Medicine to manage orthopedic and rehabilitation services.

Leo Lombardo, MD, announced the opening of his practice — Ventura (Calif.) Pain & Spine Physicians.

A hand hygiene intervention that used positive deviance — learning successful strategies from people in the community — increased hand hygiene compliance by a third, which was associated with a 43.2 percent decrease in the incidence of medical device-associated infections…

Approximately 1,000 people in U.S. hospitals suffer needlestick injuries per day each year, costing $1 billion, according to a Safe in Common report in Herald Online.

The 10th anniversary of The Surgery Center Coalition's conference will be held on September 10 in Somerset, N.J.

Steven Meier, board-certified orthopedic surgeon, recently performed the first hemi cap arthroplasty to be done at La Peer Health Systems, an outpatient surgery center in Beverly Hills, Calif.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Michael Redler, MD, will give a presentation titled "Opening a State-of-the-Art ASC in Changing Times."

Administrator at Kerlan-Jobe Surgery Center Los Angeles, CA