May 29, 2015 | In the News
HealthLeaders Media reported this week that Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System and the University of Michigan Health System have announced a “Take the Volume Pledge” campaign among their combined 20 hospitals. “The...
May 22, 2015 | In the News
US News & World Report released their hospital ratings issue which includes hospital performance in three common surgeries – hip replacement, knee replacement and heart bypass surgery. The study team analyzed Medicare data of more than 5 million patient records to...
May 15, 2015 | In the News, International
An editorial in the Times Colonist, a western Canadian daily newspaper, brought to light the wait times for hip and knee replacements on Vancouver Island, which “are among the longest in Canada.” In 2014, only 39 percent of hip patients and 26 percent of knee patients...
May 15, 2015 | In the News
KATV in Arkansas featured a story on knee replacement with a patient of AAHKS Board Treasurer, C. Lowry Barnes, MD, Chair of Orthopedic Surgery at UAMS, this week. The patient recalls her mother and grandfather having knee pain that require them to use wheel chairs at...
May 8, 2015 | In the News, Patient Education
The Oregon Educators Benefit Board recently placed a cap on the facility costs its policy covers for hip and knee replacement. Many of the 150,000 covered educators in Oregon who are in need of hip or knee replacement now must travel several hours to facilities that...
May 8, 2015 | In the News, Patient Education
AAHKS member and assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Mount Sinai in New York, Darwin D. Chen, MD talks about hip arthritis to the New York Daily News for Arthritis Awareness Month. He covers the signs, symptoms, prevention, traditional treatment, and hip...
