Leadership

Addison, Texas-based United Surgical Partners International is recruiting three registered nurses, according to Jessica Green, clinical director at Mayfield Brain & Spine, and Lindsay Brian, pain management department nurse manager at Mayfield Spine Surgery Center.

Peggy Powell, BSN, RN, a nurse manager at Rockford (Ill.) Ambulatory Surgery Center, received a $5,000 scholarship Oct. 10, Patch reports.

CMS' decision to reduce payments for office-based noninvasive cardiac tests had the unintended consequence of increasing costs across the board, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

$150,000 in grants will be divided among eight organizations to educate communities and health professionals and deliver free screenings and counselling.

Medline’s Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) division recently participated in the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association’s (ASCA) National Advocacy Day in Washington D.C. to educate members of the U.S. Congress on the most urgent issues facing the ASC community and its patients.

Over the past several decades, both freestanding hospitals and integrated healthcare delivery systems have employed physicians and placed them into separate operating units called Medical Group Enterprises (MGEs).

William Boozan, MD, joined Valley Stream, N.Y.-based OCLI and will see patients in OCLI's New York locations in Oceanside and Valley Stream.

Surgeons at the Horizon Eye Specialists & Lasik Center in Scottsdale, Ariz., are now offering a trifocal lens implant for cataract surgery.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Healthcare Realty Trust's chairman emeritus and director, David Emery, died Sept. 30.

Here are 18 leadership moves Becker's ASC Review has reported on this year: