Raleigh, N.C.-based Compass Surgical Partners welcomed Sandy Stillman-Alvin as executive administrator.

Jennifer Martin left her role as business office manager at Hermitage, Tenn.-based Summit Surgery Center, according to a LinkedIn post.

ASCs are facing a variety of staffing-related challenges due to COVID-19.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare sent critical care physicians and advanced practice providers to Arizona hospitals to support efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Leawood, Kan.-based ValueHealth named former Kansas City, Mo.-based St. Luke's Health System chief patient experience officer Ron Baker president of NueHealth.

The New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers elected three members to its board of directors, according to a July 15 announcement.

Dave Ewing was named vice president of business development at Raleigh, N.C.-based Compass Surgical Partners, according to a July 1 announcement.

Hannibal-based Northeast Missouri Ambulatory Surgery Center celebrated its 20th anniversary July 8, the Hannibal Courier-Post reports.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare made a pair of appointments to its leadership team.

The elective surgery ban earlier in the year has left a permanent mark on medical tourism as hotels built next to, and occasionally in partnership with, hospitals sat relatively empty throughout the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Baltimore Sun reports.

Wael Barsoum, MD, is leaving his post as CEO of Cleveland Clinic Florida to join HOPCo, the owner of orthopedic specialty practices including Phoenix-based the CORE Institute, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners expanded its partnership with BridgeHealth to assist more patients in accessing orthopedic care.

The former CFO of United Surgical Partners International alleges he was fired in retaliation for reporting potential securities law violations, according to a lawsuit filed June 24 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

As surgery centers around the country slowly begin to re-open, business will be anything but “usual.”

Lance Kugler, MD, has practiced in both open-access and office-based ASCs, according to an article he penned for Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today.

A total of 17.7 million healthcare workers are potentially ineligible for emergency paid sick leave benefits through the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. 

According to Time magazine, the coronavirus pandemic has created “the world’s largest work-from-home experiment.”

Leawood, Kan.-based ValueHealth named former Cerner executive Don Bisbee its new president, the company announced June 11.

As a national medical group, Envision Healthcare "has a role to play" in fighting racial inequality and injustice, CEO Jim Rechtin said in a June 4 letter to team members.

Massachusetts healthcare providers experienced "pretty striking and totally unprecedented" employment changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, said David Auerbach, PhD, research director for the state's Health Policy Commission, in an interview with The Lowell Sun.