Leadership

Here are 14 physicians or ASCs that received awards or recognitions in 2018 covered on Becker's ASC Review:

Microsoft collaborated with Walgreens Boots Alliance to develop a new healthcare delivery model, which could produce new health centers in the future.

Hand and upper extremity specialist Adam Cochran, MD joined Athens (Ga.) Orthopedic Clinic in September 2018, GwinnettCitizen.com reports.

Former ASC executive director John Frederick May, 82, died Jan. 10, the Austin Daily Herald reports.

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare CEO Ronald Rittenmeyer said the company is "aggressively" exploring outsourcing numerous positions, the Dallas News reports.

Healthcare Solutions Consulting Principal and former ASC Administrator John D. Brock shared four leadership tips for medical directors in the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association's ASC Physician Focus newsletter.

Here are 20 surgery centers with procedure prices posted online:

Patricia Thomas, RN, began a three-year term on the National Certifying Board for Ophthalmic Registered Nurses Jan. 1. 

A video posted by eye surgeon Blake Williamson, MD, was among the top 10 featured on ophthalmic surgical video platform Eyetube in 2018, according to Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today.

Gilmore Jasion Mahler's Matt Cavanagh is being promoted to partner, effective Jan. 8, the Sentinel-Tribune reports.