NMC Offering Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Hip Replacement
Newton Medical Center (NMC) is the second hospital in the state to offer Stryker’s Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Total Hip replacement procedures. This latest advancement in joint replacement surgery is transforming the way joint replacement procedures are performed. Robotic-arm assisted surgery is a new approach to joint replacement that offers the potential for a higher level […]
NMC Surgeon Turns to Colleague for Knee Replacement
Newton Medical Center Chief Medical Officer, Charles Craig, MD, has nearly four decades of orthopedic surgery experience. But last fall, he experienced health care from a completely different perspective — as the patient.
NMC Health Named Blue Distinction® Center+ for Knee & Hip
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas has selected Newton Medical Center as a Blue Distinction Center+ for Knee and Hip Replacement, part of the Blue Distinction Specialty Care program. Blue Distinction Centers are nationally designated health care facilities shown to deliver improved patient safety and better health outcomes, based on objective measures that were […]
NMC First in U.S. to Receive ORTHO VISION™ Analyzer
NEWTON, Kan., (September 21, 2015) – Newton Medical Center (NMC) announced today the purchase of the new ORTHO VISION™ Analyzer. When NMC receives the new equipment on September 24, the hospital will be the first in the nation with this interactive, fully automated analyzer for transfusion medicine. Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, the manufacturer of the ORTHO […]
