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This article is written by Tina Madonia Mentz, Executive Director of Elmhurst Outpatient Surgery Center.

Small community hospitals had a higher ventilator-associated pneumonia rate than the rate at medium and large community hospitals, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

There are several options for debridement — the removal of dead or damaged skin — when healing wounds, according to a Medline Industries blog post.

At the 11th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago, Andrea Woodell and Matt Lau will give a presentation titled "Assessing the Profitability of Orthopedics and Spine Cases."

Broomfield, Colo.-based Lanx has appointed Fernando Villamil, MD, to its surgeon advisory board and the company's director of education for Latin America.

More than 200 Biomet workers in the United Kingdom will be laid off as the orthopedic device supplier relocates its Swindon business to Bridgend, Wales, according to a Swindon Advertiser report.

Flemington, N.J.-based Hunterdon Orthopaedic Institute announced that it is opening a new location in Somerville, N.J.

Bingham Memorial Hospital in Blackfoot, Idaho, announced the addition of Nathan Richardson, MD, to its orthopedic specialty program, according to an Idaho State Journal report.

Michael T. Flanagan, MD, director of the Southeast Pain Management Center at Southeast Alabama Medical Center in Dothan, Ala., has been named president of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, according to a Dothan Eagle report.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers a free toolkit on notifying patients of an infection control lapse or disease transmission.