Leadership

ASCs can partner with private equity-backed platforms as a way to capitalize on future value and mitigate risks, but some ASC leaders warn that partnering with private equity firms requires consideration of costs outside the financial.

The ASC industry has seen an influx of private equity interest, consolidating the industry. Ophthalmologist Richard Lee, MD, who works at Oakland, Calif.-based Eye MD Laser & Surgery Center, spoke with Becker's ASC Review on why his ASC hasn't sold…

During COVID-19 surges last year, ASCs and hospitals worked together in new ways to care for patients across the U.S.

Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, was named ValueHealth's chair of the advisory board on healthcare transformation.

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.