Leadership

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: 

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners increased its board to nine members with the appointment of a hospital industry veteran.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed healthcare, and while surgery centers benefit from being isolated from directly fighting the pandemic, change was prevalent throughout the industry last year and will remain a constant going forward.

The pandemic accelerated the shift to outpatient surgery and ASCs as physicians and patients sought elective surgeries away from hospitals treating COVID-19 patients. But the pandemic also placed financial constraints on surgery centers that made it more difficult for some…