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San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, N.M., announced the establishment of a neuro-spine program, headquartered at San Juan Health Partners Neurosciences in Farmington.

Engineers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla have designed a bioactive glass implant that can grow new bone, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.

Disc replacement surgeries may be more effective in the short term than spinal fusion for treating degenerative disc disease, according to a recent study in the ANZ Journal of Surgery.

Macon, Ga.-based The Nexus Medical Group opened The Nexus Pain Center of Albany (Ga.), according to an Albany Herald report.

Chippewa Falls, Wis.-based Chippewa Valley Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Clinic has opened a new location in Altoona, Wis., according to a Leader Telegram report.

A free Hospital Decontamination Self-Assessment Tool is available from the Harvard School of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Exercise Program.

Ambulatory surgery centers treating Medicare beneficiaries must report 2012 volume data for select procedures and verify use of safe surgery checklists on QualityNet by tomorrow or face payment reductions from Medicare in 2015, according to an ASCA alert.

The societal savings from knee arthroplasty performed in the United States in 2009 was approximately $12 billion, according to an article published in The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

At the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, Marcia Patrick, RN, MSN, CIC, and Marsha Wallander, RN, will give a presentation titled "Does Your Infection Prevention Program Meet Survey Requirements?"

Here are seven things for ambulatory surgery center leaders to know for August 22, 2013.