Lake Placid (N.Y.) Sports Medicine installed Stryker's Mako robotic arm system to assist with joint replacement procedures, the Press Publican reports.

Reno (Nev.) Orthopedic Clinic's ASC has a flourishing total joint program.

The University of New Mexico is building a $21 million orthopedic facility at its campus in Rio Rancho, N.M., to unite its clinical and research activities in one building, local NPR affiliate KRWG reports.

Martinsburg, W.Va.-based Tri-State Surgical Center is now offering patients access to total knee replacement surgeries, The Journal reports.

The University of Miami Health System changed its anesthesia and rehabilitation protocols to accommodate same-day knee replacement surgery, according to Local10.com.

The Surgery Center at Shrewsbury (Mass.) recorded its first total hip replacement surgery.

CMS released the 2021 proposed payment rule for hospital outpatient departments and ASCs on Aug. 4.

It's believed that COVID-19-related elective surgery cancellations at hospitals and ASCs cost both facilities around $5 billion in lost revenue, a Kaiser Health News analysis published in Fortune concludes.

A Franklin, Tenn.-based ASC is launching a total joint program just six months after opening.

Zanesville, Ohio-based Genesis HealthCare System is building an orthopedic care center to consolidate all its orthopedic services into one building, CantonRep.com reports.

ASCs performing same-day total joint replacement have been "made all the more important by the recent coronavirus epidemic," said Thomas Vikoren, MD, in a May interview with the Bucks County Courier Times.

Surgical Suites of Coastal Virginia logged its first outpatient total knee replacement in late July.

Danbury-based Western Connecticut Orthopedic Surgical Center is now equipped with Stryker's Mako SmartRobotics system, according to a July 29 announcement.

Bend, Ore.-based Cascade Surgicenter now uses Stryker's Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Surgery System in total joint replacements.

This month, Columbus, Ohio-based OrthoNeuro's Mark Gittins, DO, became one of three orthopedic surgeons in the world to use Smith+Nephew's new hand-held robotics platform, the CORI Surgical System.

The Surgery Center at Midlands Orthopaedics & Neurosurgery in Columbia, S.C., completed its first cases using Zimmer Biomet's Rosa Knee System.

Denver-based Swedish Medical Center is using Portal Assisted Total and Hip, a new hip replacement procedure going by the acronym PATH, local NBC affiliate 9News reports.

Buffalo, N.Y.-based Catholic Health and a group of local surgeons partnered to create the Catholic Health Orthopedic Management Co., in an attempt to standardize practices, processes and procedures across the healthcare system, Buffalo Business First reports.

Schaumburg, Ill.-based Barrington Orthopedic Specialists is now offering outpatient total joint replacement at Schaumburg Surgery Center.

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