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30 ORTHOPEDICS Orthopedic supergroup in Tennessee to build medical office, ASC: 4 details By Laura Dyrda T ennessee Orthopaedic Alliance broke ground on a new medical office facil- ity that will include a surgery center in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Four details: 1. e Tennessee alliance partnered with Oman-Gibson Associates, a Nashville, Tenn.-based real estate company, to build the 55,000-square-foot facility. 2. e three-story building will include an imaging suite, physical therapy services and a sports performance space on the first level. e next two levels will be dedicated to clini- cal services and outpatient surgery. 3. e partners expect to complete their new facility in February 2022. 4. e alliance launched Jan. 1 as a merger of three large orthopedic practices in Tennes- see. e combined group has 105 physicians and more than 800 staff members. n What states have the most ASCs that offer total joint replacement? By Alan Condon T otal joint replacements are performed at more than 500 ASCs in the U.S. Here are the 15 states with the most ASCs offering the procedure: California: 50 Florida: 42 Maryland: 32 Texas: 32 Washington: 21 Indiana: 20 Colorado: 19 Georgia: 19 New Jersey: 17 Minnesota: 17 Ohio: 16 Wisconsin: 16 Illinois: 15 Michigan: 15 North Carolina: 14 n $45M robotic surgery contract awarded to Synaptive Medical partner By Alan Condon T he Defense Logistics Agency awarded veteran-owned company Fidelis Sustainability Distribution its medical equipment electronic catalog contract valued at up to $45 million over five years. The ECAT contract, a preferred purchasing system for Department of De- fense and Veterans Affairs facilities, is an online source for robotic-assisted surgery and other surgical products. Fidelis is working with device company Synaptive Medical to provide ECAT customers with Modus V, a robotic digital microscope designed for spine and neurosurgery. The exoscope attaches to a robotic arm and tracks sur- gical instruments while displaying HD images on a monitor. "Fidelis has proven to be a valuable partner and allowing the purchase of Modus V to be simplified to our U.S. government customers is just another example," Marc Buntaine, CEO of Synaptive Medical, said in a Jan. 12 news release. n 4-surgeon Ohio orthopedic group celebrates 45 years — 3 things to know By Alan Condon Granville, Ohio-based Orthopedic Specialists & Sports Medicine is celebrating 45 years of practice in 2021. ree things to know: 1. e group has four orthopedic surgeons: Edward Westerheide, MD, Brad Bernacki, MD, Alex Tancevski, MD, and Benjamin Burkett, MD. 2. Dr. Burkett specializes in complex spine surgery as well as joint replacement and revision. 3. Claude Rousseau, MD, founded the practice in 1976. n