Leadership

Surpassing the halfway point of 2019, there have been 16 leadership moves in the ASC industry.

Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Hospital tapped HCA Healthcare Orange Park (Fla.) Medical Center CEO Chad Patrick to serve as its new leader, effective mid-July, the Asheville Citizen Times reports.

KLAS Practice Management's 2019 performance report awarded NextGen Healthcare's NextGen Enterprise Practice Management solution top scores in its innovation and customer satisfaction categories.

Christina Bolin, BSN, RN, is the new nurse manager at Catawba Valley Center for Wound Healing & Hyperbarics, according to the Hickory Daily Record.

Cathy McCabe, MD, and Mark Kontos, MD, were named chief medical editors for The Ophthalmic ASC, the Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society announced.

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a health insurance bill into law at Jacksonville, Fla.-based CenterOne Surgery Center, local news affiliate Fox 35 reports.

The American College of Surgeons granted Little Rock-based Arkansas Children's Hospital level 1 designation for its surgical center, Talk Business & Politics reports.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare appointed Douglas Smith, MD, president of Envision Physician Services, the first time a physician has held the title.

HCA Healthcare is hiring a surgery center administrator to help build Brownsville (Texas) Surgery Center from the ground up.

A KLAS survey found 66 percent of nurses are happy with their organization's EHR, but satisfaction is much lower for physicians, according to Simplify ASC, a management platform provider.