Leadership

It can be a challenge to develop a strong ASC budget, especially amid uncertainty from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tenet Healthcare, the parent company of United Surgical Partners International, has named a new CEO. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the U.S. healthcare system close to its limits, putting a strain on healthcare workers at all levels. Karen Albright, RN, nurse administrator at Annapolis, Md.-based Riva Road Surgery Center, said it's become increasingly difficult to…

In recent years, the greater-than-ever ease of access to information and disinformation has had an increasing impact. Charles Fox, MD, chief of gastroenterology at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta, said he and his staff encounter it regularly.

Addison, Texas-based United Surgical Partners International is hiring at least 16 administrators nationally. 

Here's who leads the five largest health insurers by membership, according to a May 2021 ValuePenguin report.

With the COVID-19 pandemic and the disruptions it brought to work-life balance, Tina Piotrowski, CEO of Copper Ridge Surgery Center in Michigan, said ASCs are particularly vulnerable to loss of staff.

Nearly all ASCs offer employees health insurance benefits, but many in the past year have made changes to control costs.

Surgical Care Affiliates recently promoted Abbey Watkins to vice president of clinical quality for its Southeast operating division.

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