Leadership

U.S. News & World Report released its 2019 Best Hospital rankings July 30.

Herbert Pierce has been selected as the new CEO of Vistar Eye Center in Roanoke, Va., according to the Roanoke Star.

As a heart and lung transplant surgeon and a former Republican senator for Tennessee, Bill Frist, MD, has his finger on the pulse of healthcare in America. 

Walter Shelton, MD, a founding partner of Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center, plans to retire on Aug. 30, according to The Northside Sun.

Here are three health systems hiring ASC executives:

The Vanderbilt Eye Institute received a $10 million grant, which it will use to fund regenerative visual neuroscience research.

Patients who have surgeries in ASCs would recommend the facilities to family and friends, according to a survey conducted for the New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers.

Honolulu-based Windward Surgery Center is celebrating its 10-year anniversary after opening in the summer of 2009, local news affiliate KHON reports.

Arkansas ophthalmologist group, Safe Surgery Arkansas, is challenging a state law called Act 579 that expanded optometrists' scope of practice, ABC 7 reports.

Brownwood, Texas-based Hendrick Surgery Center is collecting both food and fans at its Community Fan & Food Drive July 19, ABC affiliate KTAB reports.