Becker's Spine Review speaks to Andrew A. Sama, MD, co-chief of HSS Spine on the key to remaining on top of orthopedics.

"It's like baseball or football," Dr. Sama said. "Just because you win one game doesn't guarantee you're going to win the next one. You really have to think meaningfully about how we operate, the patients we serve, how we deliver care to them and doing that in a financially and fiscally responsible way. We put our patients first, and we basically build our care delivery around what we believe to be best for the patients. We listen to their feedback via surveys and then try to respond appropriately. We've built out a new operations team, we've changed leadership with the new CEO and president and surgeon in chief. With that, we have a new operations officer. We've been able to do what we've done well for the last 15 years and think about how it dovetails into what's coming in the future, and then strategize to deliver the best possible care to as many patients as we can touch."

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