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MEDNAX Announces Acquisition of Neonatology Practice in Arizona

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MEDNAX Announces Acquisition of Neonatology Practice in Arizona

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– MEDNAX, Inc., (NYS: MD) today announced the acquisition of Neonatology Associates, Ltd. (NAL), a neonatal physician group practice based in Phoenix, Arizona. The practice will become part of MEDNAX‘s Pediatrix Medical Group division.

NAL is a private practice that consists of 24 neonatologists, 5 pediatric hospitalists, 39 advanced practitioners, and 35 other clinical and administrative support staff who provide a wide spectrum of services, including neonatal intensive care, labor and delivery, and hearing screen services, at 27 hospitals throughout Central and Northern Arizona and in Tucson.

The practice, which has served the area for more than 40 years, performs approximately 38,000 newborn hearing screens annually and its annual NICU patient volume is approximately 60,000 days. NAL has been a leader in neonatal education through conference and training programs and several of the practice’s clinicians have been involved in research programs and clinical trials.

“We are confident that partnering with such an established leader in the industry will further advance the specialized and critical services we have provided to the community’s newborn babies for more than four decades,” said Ravi Gunawardene, M.D., who will serve as medical director for the practice. “In an evolving, uncertain and complex healthcare environment, this partnership will support our infrastructure, provide collaborative research and education, and ultimately enhance the ability of our physicians to focus on patient care.”

Pediatrix Medical Group, through its affiliated entities, is an established provider of a full spectrum of services including neonatology, maternal-fetal, pediatric cardiology, pediatric and OB/GYN hospitalist, developmental pediatric and newborn hearing screen services at locations throughout the state of Arizona.

The practice was acquired for cash and the transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to earnings. No additional terms of the transaction were disclosed.

ABOUT MEDNAX

MEDNAX, Inc. is a national medical group that comprises the nation’s leading provider of neonatal, maternal-fetal and pediatric physician subspecialty services as well as anesthesia services. Physicians and advanced practitioners practicing as part of MEDNAX are reshaping the delivery of care within their specialties and subspecialties, using evidence-based tools, continuous quality initiatives and clinical research to enhance patient outcomes and provide high-quality, cost-effective care. Pediatrix Medical Group, a division of MEDNAX, was founded in 1979 and now includes neonatal physicians who provide services at more than 330 neonatal intensive care units, who collaborate with affiliated maternal-fetal medicine, pediatric cardiology and pediatric critical care physician …read more

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Arizona tribe seeks artifacts up for auction

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An Arizona tribe is asking a Paris auction house to cancel its upcoming sale of dozens of items central to the tribe’s religious practices and return them to their original homes in the American Southwest.

Neret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou describes the collection on its website as Katsina masks of the Hopi Indians of Arizona. They are scheduled to be auctioned April 12, with some expected to garner tens of thousands of dollars each.

To the Hopis, they are living beings called Katsina friends that emerge from the earth and sky to connect people to the spiritual world and their ancestors. Every member of the Hopi Tribe gets initiated into the Katsina society as a rite of passage.

Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, director of the tribe’s cultural preservation office, said the religious items have no commercial value and should be in the hands of the American Indian tribes from which they were taken, including the pueblos of Jemez, Acoma and Zuni in New Mexico. The sale of such items isn’t extraordinary, but the size of the collection to be auctioned in Paris and the age of the items is, Kuwanwisiwma said.

The majority of the 70 katsina friends are labeled as Hopi and date back to the late 19th century and early 20th century. Kuwanwisiwma said they likely were collected from the Hopi in the 1930s and 1940s when there was documented evidence of a French citizen on the northern Arizona reservation.

“A lot of these objects were collected under suspicious conditions,” he said. “You had such a huge competition by museums to collect artifacts from tribal reservations, and Hopi was no exception.”

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act would protect such items in the U.S., but the law doesn’t extend to France.

The Heard Museum in Phoenix is backing the Hopi Tribe‘s effort to reclaim the objects and said it was hopeful the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People could be used as leverage. France was among the first to sign the declaration that says indigenous people have the right to repatriation of their human remains, ceremonial objects and cultural patrimony.

An email sent to Neret-Minet Tessier & Sarrou on Tuesday was not immediately returned.

The auction house cited a book written by the founder of the Museum of Northern Arizona, …read more
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