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COMMUNITY MEMORIAL ***** RATING IN ORTHOPAEDICS

Community Memorial Hospital has received the prestigious Five Star (*****) rating for Total Joint Replacements in the 10th annual Healthgrades Hospital Quality in America study. This is quite an honor considering all the hospitals in the United States are surveyed by the organization. Community Memorial was # 2 in New York State and in the top 5% in the country for overall Orthopaedic care. CMH is a small community hospital competing and only coming in second to facilities such as The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. We are extremely proud to have this rating as well as being able to say that we have held it in 2008, 2007, 2005, and 2004 respectively.  

SPINE SURGEON

Dr. Rudolph Buckley, a prominent Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon from Utica, NY will begin seeing patients in our Hamilton Office every other Monday effective September 10, 2007.  He will eventually be performing surgical spine procedures at Community Memorial.

Dr. Buckley is a graduate of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia where he earned hi MD in 1992.  He then attended to Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana where he completed an internship in 1993 and his Orthopaedic residency in 1997.  Dr. Buckley was then accepted for a fellowship in Spinal Reconstruction in  Baltimore with Maryland Reconstruction group.  He completed that in 1998. 

Dr. Buckley Began practicing at the Slocum-Dickson Medical Group in New Hartford, NY in 1998 and continues to enjoy a very successful practice today.  He will continue working in Utica the majority of his time.

Hamilton Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine is thrilled to have Dr. Buckley working with us and we believe it will provide our patients with a much needed specialty.  We are at this time accepting appointments with Dr. Buckley at the Hamilton office.  Please call us at (315)-824-1250.