Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare Chairman and CEO R. Milton Johnson plans to retire and HCA named President and COO Sam Hazen his replacement.
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Cleveland Clinic Children's will open a $28 million freestanding outpatient center Sept. 24, The Plain Dealer reports.
Salix Pharmaceuticals launched Plenvu, a one-liter prescription bowel preparation solution.
M. Aamir Ali, MD, and Kristin Attiogbe, CRNP, joined Rockville, Md.-based Capital Digestive Care.
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ASCs should "test the market" to save supply chain costs, said Director Rob Austin, Senior Consultant Don Baverman and Senior Consultant Marissa Burik of Navigant Consulting, a healthcare consulting firm.
EyePoint Pharmaceuticals selected Göran Ando, MD, as its next chairman of the board.
Christopher Holden has more than 25 years of experience working in the healthcare industry. He was appointed Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare's president and CEO in 2016 after previously serving as Nashville-based AmSurg's director and president from 2007 to 2016.
Definitive Healthcare's database uses CMS' data to track the amount charged per procedure performed at ASCs.
Research published in The Journal of Arthroplasty found using an outpatient total hip arthroplasty care pathway resulted in better short-term outcomes than inpatient total hip arthroplasty.