Nov 21, 2014 | In the News
The Washington Post reported on the findings of two health benefits surveys released this week. The Employee Benefit Research Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management surveyed more than 3,000 employers. The surveys showed that few employers are reducing...
Nov 14, 2014 | In the News
The San Francisco Examiner published a guest column yesterday, “Inroads made tracking patient progress,” by William J. Maloney, MD, AAHKS Secretary/AJRR Board Chair and AAHKS member Kevin J. Bozic, MD. Dr. Maloney and Dr. Bozic wrote the article in response to another...
Oct 24, 2014 | In the News
This week, the Billings Gazette featured the story of AAHKS member, Dean C. Sukin, MD and a patient who received the new Vanguard XP Knee System that Dr. Sukin helped develop. Dr. Sukin is one of two surgeons in Montana who are trained to perform the surgery using...
Oct 10, 2014 | In the News
David Backstein, MD, AAHKS member and head of Orthopedic Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was featured in an article in The Toronto Star after his department received a generous $10 million donation. Dr. Backstein said that the donation...
Oct 2, 2014 | In the News
The Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center (CJRI) in Hartford, Conn. is now certified as an ISO 9001:2008, Quality Management Systems compliant organization. CJRI is the only healthcare facility in Connecticut with this...
Sep 26, 2014 | In the News
The State of Vermont and Fletcher Allen Hospital in Burlington, Vermont have entered into a pilot bundled payment contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont for state employees specifically for hip or knee replacements. VTDigger.org reports that the payment...
