If a surgeon retires or suddenly departs due to death, illness, relocation or hospital employment, ASC administrators can find themselves scrambling to recoup the case volume loss.
Leadership
Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky is the highest paid CEO in New Jersey, and Aetna CEO Mark T. Bertolini is the highest paid in Connecticut, according to a study by Equilar and the Associated Press.
Seven percent of physicians were subject to some form of sexual harassment within the past three years, compared to 11 percent of nurses, nurse practitioners and physician assistants, according to Medscape.
Orthopedic surgeons are offered the second highest average income of the top 20 recruited specialties, behind invasive cardiologists, according to Merritt Hawkins' 2018 Incentive Review.
The earnings gap between older and younger physicians may be slightly smaller in office-based multispecialty groups than in other settings, according to Medscape's 2018 Young Physician Compensation Report 2018.
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Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson named cosmetic surgeon Rhys Branman, MD, to the Arkansas State Medical Board.
Tampa, Fla.-based Laser Spine Institute named M. Kathleen Donald chief marketing officer in May.
Real estate company JLL added Tim Gregory to its staff as senior vice president to focus on leasing healthcare-related properties, BisNow reports.
Establishing teamwork as an organizational norm helps ASC staff members perform at their highest potential, according to Pinnacle III's Vice President of Operations Jovanna Grissom, RN.
Healthcare initiatives must have a clear benefit in order to avoid project fatigue and employee dissatisfaction, according to the Center for Transforming Healthcare's Executive Director of High Reliability Product Delivery Klaus Nether.