Leadership

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses outlined how to make in-service meetings more engaging for nursing staff.

Changes in ownership trends and the migration of care away from high-acuity settings are indicative of a business environment that can be highly rewarding for ASCs — if leaders respond appropriately.

The Cannon Foundation gifted Wake Forest Baptist Health-Lexington (N.C.) Medical Center $100,000 for its surgical facility expansion, The-Dispatch.com reports.

Daily huddles can help ASC staff prepare for potential challenges and foreseeable issues, according to Lakewood, Colo.-based ASC management company Pinnacle III.

Phoenix-based Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye Center now offers the FDA-approved AcrySof IQ PanOptix Trifocal IOL.

Jeffrey Horn, MD, of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vision for Life, will implant a PanOptix Trifocal Intraocular Lens in a patient Sept. 4.

Caitlin Farmer, MD, joined Texas-based Center for Dermatology Plano and Flower Mound Sept. 3, which are now both part of Dallas-based U.S. Dermatology Partners.

Here are four surgery centers and practices that added or announced new team members in August:

Chesapeake Urology added Laura Giusto, MD, Melissa Mendez, MD, and Alan Kaplan, MD, to its practice, expanding its reach into the Maryland suburbs.

Andrey Ibragimov was named assistant director of Ingalls Same Day Surgery Center at Tinley Park (Ill.).