UNLV School of Medicine

Comagine Health Awarded Multiple New Maternal Health Contracts

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Thursday, November 2, 2023
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SEATTLE, Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Comagine Health, a leading national, nonprofit health care consulting firm, received multiple new maternal health contracts. The new work focuses on creating innovative approaches to address maternal health needs in Nevada and Oregon. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded both contracts to Comagine Health as a part of its investment to address the maternal health crisis. The new contracts add to Comagine Health's growing portfolio of federal contracts.

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  • SEATTLE, Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Comagine Health, a leading national, nonprofit health care consulting firm, received multiple new maternal health contracts.
  • The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded both contracts to Comagine Health as a part of its investment to address the maternal health crisis.
  • State Maternal Health Innovation Program: This program will reduce maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity (SMM) by addressing maternal health disparities related to substance use disorder through the development of quality services, a skilled workforce, enhanced data quality and capacity, and innovative programming.
  • "The goal of this work aligns extraordinarily well with Comagine Health's mission of taking on tough problems in health care in order to improve population health."

Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine continues to grow faculty with addition of Eustaquio Abay II, MD, FACS; Nicholas Wohlgemuth, Ph.D. and Lawrence Zoller, Ph.D.

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Thursday, January 13, 2022
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Eustaquio Abay II, MD, FACS, clinical faculty, is a leader of local and national medical and civic organizations.

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  • Eustaquio Abay II, MD, FACS, clinical faculty, is a leader of local and national medical and civic organizations.
  • A clinician, surgeon, and teacher, he is committed to medical education, advances in medicine and excellence in the art and practice of medicine.
  • Dr. Abay founded both the Kansas Spine Hospital, as part of a Neuroscience Center of Excellence in the region, and the Abay Neuroscience Center, which is the biggest private neurosurgery group in the state of Kansas.
  • Lawrence Zoller, Ph.D., faculty, biomedical sciences, comes to KansasCOM as professor emeritus from the UNLV School of Dental Medicine.

OrthoGrid Systems, Inc. Announces Launch of New OrthoGrid Trauma Software Application for Open Reduction and Internal Fixation (ORIF) procedures.

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Tuesday, August 31, 2021
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OrthoGrid Trauma is a patented,distortion-correcting, disruptive and revolutionary surgery navigation software application that provides a unique digitalintraoperative-alignment technology forOpen Reduction and Internal Fixation (ORIF) procedures.

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  • OrthoGrid Trauma is a patented,distortion-correcting, disruptive and revolutionary surgery navigation software application that provides a unique digitalintraoperative-alignment technology forOpen Reduction and Internal Fixation (ORIF) procedures.
  • OrthoGrid's Universal Trauma application aims to provide surgeons and support staff performing ORIF procedures with an intraoperative navigation system.
  • OrthoGrid Trauma supports both the Open Reduction phase of Trauma procedures which accounts for most of the operating time and radiation exposure, and the Internal Fixation phase of Trauma procedures, which includes temporary fixation (with use of k-wires, guide pins, screws), to hold reduction and final implantation.
  • OrthoGrid Trauma is an image-processing software indicated for use in trauma procedures.

Final DO Match Day Produces 506 Primary Care Residents

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Monday, February 4, 2019
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In all, 380 positions were filled in non-primary care specialties and 390 positions were not filled through the initial match process.

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  • In all, 380 positions were filled in non-primary care specialties and 390 positions were not filled through the initial match process.
  • Historically, many of these positions are filled after the match announcement.
  • The AOA Match is ending as theAOA and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) wind down the fourth year of a five-year transition to a single accreditation system for graduate medical education.
  • To date, 80% of all osteopathic training positions have transitioned to ACGME accreditation, with additional positions expected over the next 17 months.