 Tri-County Health Care in Wadena will now be able to serve its patients a full range of orthopedic services. On Tuesday, Tri-County Health added orthopedic surgeon Ben Robertson and his assistants to their full-time staff. With the addition of Robertson, Tri-County Health is now able to give patients in Wadena full orthopedic care. This will save patients hours of travel time, as they would previously have had to travel all the way to Brainerd to get the care they seeked. For our patients specifically, just that hometown feel that they've been missing from that component of their care. A lot of our patients who are having suffering from a hip fracture or elderly and their family has to drive that extra hour. They're in the hospital for two to three days so that's several trips back and forth to Brainerd and so just the inconvenience for the patient is now eliminated. Tri-County Health Care currently sees about three to 4,000 patients a year for orthopedics and they expect to see that number increase.