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The Cannon Foundation gifted Wake Forest Baptist Health-Lexington (N.C.) Medical Center $100,000 for its surgical facility expansion, The-Dispatch.com reports.

Daily huddles can help ASC staff prepare for potential challenges and foreseeable issues, according to Lakewood, Colo.-based ASC management company Pinnacle III.

Phoenix-based Barnet Dulaney Perkins Eye Center now offers the FDA-approved AcrySof IQ PanOptix Trifocal IOL.

Jeffrey Horn, MD, of Nashville, Tenn.-based Vision for Life, will implant a PanOptix Trifocal Intraocular Lens in a patient Sept. 4.

Caitlin Farmer, MD, joined Texas-based Center for Dermatology Plano and Flower Mound Sept. 3, which are now both part of Dallas-based U.S. Dermatology Partners.

Here are four surgery centers and practices that added or announced new team members in August:

Chesapeake Urology added Laura Giusto, MD, Melissa Mendez, MD, and Alan Kaplan, MD, to its practice, expanding its reach into the Maryland suburbs.

Andrey Ibragimov was named assistant director of Ingalls Same Day Surgery Center at Tinley Park (Ill.).

Jason Strauss is COO of Deerfield, Ill.-based Surgical Care Affiliates. Mr. Strauss told Becker's ASC Review about how he got his start in healthcare and what industry changes he's observed.

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