Originally from BusinessWire.com, 9/5/19 CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (CHA HPMC), a hospital that is a member of CHA Health Systems, a global network providing a full spectrum of dynamic healthcare services, announces that Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, director of its Southern California Eye Institute (SCEI), has performed the first ClearPath implant surgery in Los Angeles, on… Continue Reading
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