Leadership

  Lowering costs and improving care quality are two of the main reasons that hospitals convert their outpatient departments into ASCs, according to ASC manager Regent Surgical Health.

Control over the scheduling process is a reliable indicator of ASC profitability, according to Simplify ASC, a surgery center management platform provider.

Regent Surgical Health named an ASC industry veteran its new vice president of business development.

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare's R. Milton Johnson made a higher salary than any other healthcare CEO in 2018, according to Axios.

The Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society launched its Experience OOSS app to provide updates in advance of OOSS Perspective 2019 meeting May 5 in San Diego.

The Snowflake/Taylor Chamber of Commerce and Lakeside, Ariz.-based Sunrise Ambulatory Surgical Center administrators held a ceremonial ribbon cutting April 5, the White Mountain Independent reports.

The O'Fallon-Shiloh Chamber of Commerce awarded Memorial Hospital East in Shiloh (Ill.) its O'Fallon-Shiloh Chamber of Commerce 43rd Annual Salute to Business Award for Economic Impact, O'Fallon Weekly reports.

Anesthesiologist Eric Moses, MD, will serve as the medical director of Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center's Albany Medical Niskayuna (N.Y.) ASC.

Healthcare Executive Group outlined the top challenges, opportunities and issues healthcare executives will face this year.

HCA Houston Healthcare tapped Evan Ray as executive vice president and chief administrative officer.