Leadership

Cindy Key, the former manager of Alabama Outpatient Surgery Center, was named chief nursing officer of Tenet Healthcare's Walker Baptist Medical Center.

Eugene, Ore.-based Drs. Fine, Hoffman & Sims won The Register-Guard's best eye surgeon and best Lasik surgeon Reader's Choice Awards, the paper reports.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners nominated former Southwind Health Partners CEO John Deane to fill a soon-to-be vacant seat on its board of directors. 

The ideal number of active physician owners varies between single-specialty ASCs and multispecialty ones, according to HealthCare Appraisers' "2019 ASC Valuation Survey."

Wickenburg (Ariz.) Community Hospital partnered with Richard Kootman, MD, to expand its Surgical Center services, the Wickenburg Sun reports.

The Connecticut Building Congress will award McGivney Advanced Surgery Center at Yale-New Haven Hospital its merit award, the New Haven Independent reports.

Lessons for ASCs in customer preference, new technology and data can be gleaned from the competition between Blockbuster and Netflix, according to a new report from ASC manager Regent Surgical Health.

Three former leaders of Tampa, Fla.-based Laser Spine Institute joined Medovex Corp., a medical device company that has made a string of appointments since recently installing Bill Horne as CEO.

Brentwood, Tenn.-based Spero Health selected former Envision Healthcare leader Clint Cromwell to serve as its chief legal officer.

A fundraiser in support of the Wounded Warrior Project at the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association Conference and Expo May 16 in Nashville, Tenn., will be hosted by ASC software company HSTpathways.