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Introducing
Summa Health Orthopedic Institute

Providing coordinated care that makes you our top priority

Whether you’re dealing with chronic joint pain, or Dr. Nilesh Shah assists patient.
just twisted your ankle playing a game of pick-up
basketball, you want to be able to make one call Dr. Scott Weiner, chair, Orthopedic Institute
and know you’re getting the right orthopedic care.
Call 330.835.5533 to make
Summa Health Orthopedic Institute is designed to provide just an appointment or visit
that—one access point that will put you in front of the right summahealth.org/ortho
provider who will work with you to determine a treatment to learn more.
and recovery plan that fits your life, whether it’s surgical or
nonsurgical.

“We see patients with an orthopedic related issue, and if they
eventually need surgical intervention, we have the team in place
to give them the best treatment and recovery,” said Nilesh Shah,
M.D., medical director, sports medicine. “We can then help the
patient navigate where they need to go and make sure they’re
seeing the right person and getting the right care in an efficient
manner.”

Thanks to Summa Health’s team-based model of care, a patient
can see a provider at Summa Health Orthopedic Institute and
know the physician is looking at their entire medical record and
working with the primary care physician and other specialists to
find the best ways to keep them healthy.

“For example if a patient comes in with diabetic foot infection
and it leads to an amputation, we can use our integrated
electronic health record to look back and see why this
happened,” said Scott Weiner, M.D., chair, Orthopedic Institute,
“Did the patient not have enough control of their sugars, or a
podiatrist that could do skin checks? By looking back at the
patient’s record, we can utilize our system of coordinated care
to keep that patient out of the hospital. That’s Summa Health’s
mission, to make our population healthier.”

Summa Health Orthopedic Institute has five orthopedic
surgeons and three sports medicine and nonsurgical orthopedic
specialists on staff that are all fellowship trained in their
specialty. In addition, the Institute offers some of the best
diagnostic and surgical procedures currently available. Summa
Health Orthopedic Institute offers easy access to appointments
in Akron, Barberton, Green, Hudson, Medina and Wadsworth,
Monday through Friday.

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