February 28, 2024
One year after a group of orthopedic surgeons began renting vacant operating rooms on Saturdays at an Ottawa hospital, the group is doubling the number of surgeries it performs there. The group already performed around 500 hip and knee surgeries and it says it’ll do 1,000 more surgeries working two days on weekends. The Academic Orthopedic Surgical Associates of Ottawa is also applying to the provincial government to build a standalone surgical centre in Ottawa where it plans to eventually do the surgeries. The province is expanding for-profit licensed clinics to perform health procedures, including surgeries, outside of hospitals.
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