Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle, WA) is a designated Center of Excellence for meeting stringent criteria for providing high-value care for specific procedures such as knee replacement and spinal surgery. But by shutting down most travel, the pandemic has put a delay on in-person patient care. Virginia Mason made prior investments in telemedicine technology for virtual patient visits and virtual multidisciplinary perioperative clinical-team conferences that has allowed Virginia Mason to continue providing surgery and other spine care for both local and remote patients. Read more.