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ORTHOPEDICS
20 best hospitals
for neurology and
neurosurgery
By Alan Condon
B
est Hospitals for Neurology & Neurosurgery 2019-20
was published by U.S. News & World Report, with
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore ranking No. 1.
U.S. News collected and assessed data from neurology and
neurosurgery programs at 1,226 hospitals and focused on
hospitals that treated at least 325 Medicare inpatients from
2015 to 2017. Here are the top 20 hospitals:
1. Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
2. Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)
3. University of California San Francisco Medical Center
4. New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell
(New York City)
5. Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
6. University of California Los Angeles Medical Center
7. NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City)
8. Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
9. Stanford (Calif.) Health Care-Stanford Hospital
10. Cleveland Clinic
11. Barrow Neurological Institute (Phoenix)
12. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
13. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
14. Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City)
15. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas)
16. Keck Hospital of University of Southern California (Los
Angeles)
17. Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston)
18. Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (Houston)
19. University of Michigan Hospitals-Michigan Medicine
(Ann Arbor)
20. Barnes-Jewish Hospital (Saint Louis)
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OrthoVirginia sells medical office
building housing practice to
Montecito Medical — 3 insights
By Eric Oliver
L
ynchburg-based OrthoVirginia sold the 88,000-square-
foot medical office building housing one of its practices
to Montecito Medical Real Estate.
What you should know:
1. The Nashville, Tenn.-based healthcare real estate company
expanded its footprint in Virginia through the acquisition.
2. The medical office building was built for OrthoVirginia, which
fully occupies the building. OrthoVirginia physicians provide
general orthopedic care, sports medicine services and care for
joint replacement patients in the space.
3. Montecito Medical acquired three medical office buildings
from OrthoVirginia.
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Oregon medical group to acquire
14-physician orthopedic practice —
3 things to know
By Alan Condon
Pendleton, Ore.-based Praxis Medical Group will acquire Des-
ert Orthopedics of Bend, Ore., according to The Bulletin.
Three things to know:
1. PMG currently owns 11 medical clinics in Oregon including
Eastern Oregon Orthopaedic Surgery and Fracture Clinic, High
Lakes Healthcare and Pain Management Partners.
2. Desert Orthopedics has a team of 14 orthopedic surgeons
and three locations in Oregon. The group offers inpatient or-
thopedic surgery at St. Charles Hospital in Bend, Ore.
3. The acquisition will be completed Sept. 1, Dan McCarthy,
regional administrator for PMG, told The Bulletin.
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