Leadership

Last year the pandemic forced many ASCs to close or limit surgical volume, but enterprising administrators took the time as an opportunity to evaluate their growth strategy, improve culture, acquire new technology and become more efficient.

Here's a roundup of ASCs hiring directors, drawn from LinkedIn's Job Search and Indeed:

Trudy Wiig, RN, FACHE, administrator of Kerlan-Jobe Surgery Center, worked with her hospital partners at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles throughout the pandemic to coordinate care for patients.

ASCs depend on surgeons to drive case volume, and can lose those cases when surgeons join the local hospital.

Nancy Daoust, chief ambulatory officer at State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, joined "Becker's Spine & Orthopedics Podcast" to give crucial advice for emerging leaders and discuss challenges facing the ambulatory setting during COVID-19.

ASCs have given surgeons and patients a safe environment for surgeries during the pandemic, but the centers suffered financially when case volumes were limited last spring.

The Leapfrog Group made several changes to its 2021 Leapfrog ASC and hospital surveys, the group announced March 10.

Two ASC administrators told Becker's ASC Review their strategies for bringing independent physicians to their centers.

Competing against health systems or private equity-backed practices can be difficult as a physician owner. Here, two physicians share their views on how they compete against the competition.

Here's a roundup of ASCs hiring administrators, using LinkedIn's Job Search tool: