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Fargo, N.D.-based Sanford Health has opened the $9 million Sanford Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Center in Bemidji, Minn., according to a Real Estate Journals report.

County commissioners in Lake County, Fla., are extending a ban on new pain management clinics until Oct. 1, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.

Charles Nussbaum, MD, a neurosurgeon at Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center, will provide consultations with patients at Kittitas Valley Healthcare in Ellensburg, Wash., according to a Daily Record report.

Standardizing the terms and principles of "science of improvement" can help healthcare organizations more effectively approach improvement efforts, according to a commentary in Quality Management in Health Care.

Surgical patients at California hospitals enrolled in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program had lower mortality rates than patients at non-ACS NSQIP hospitals, according to a study reported by the American College of Surgeons.

Financially incentivizing primary care providers for quality improved quality measures, according to a study in Quality Management in Health Care.

A free infection control assessment tool for ambulatory surgery facilities is available from the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority.

Five basic approaches can help ambulatory surgical facilities implement infection control best practices, according to expertise from Chuck Peck, MD, managing director of Navigant Consulting and leader of clinical and operational effectiveness, and TK Miller, MD, associate professor of surgery…

In the past two years, approximately 118 procedures have been performed using the Mazor Robotics Renaissance spine system at the University Medical Center in Mainz, Germany.

Bacterin International Holdings received FDA 510(k) approval for its OsteoSelect DBM Putty to be used in spinal fusion procedures.