The Competency & Credentialing Institute named Wyomissing, Pa.-based Reading Hospital SurgiCenter at Spring Ridge and the North Las Vegas-based VA Southern Nevada Healthcare System dual recipients of the 2018 TrueNorth Award.
Leadership
The transition to value based care is driving hospitals to convert hospital outpatient departments into ASCs, reversing the previous ASC-to-HOPD trend, according to a recent whitepaper from Regent Surgical Health.
Leawood, Kan.-based NueHealth Holdings named three healthcare executives to senior executive positions.
Employment risk events can hurt an ASC's growth, damage culture, impact insurance rates and significantly impact the bottom line if handled improperly, according to a MedHQ report.
The three crucial elements of successful leadership in 2018 are emotional intelligence, effective communication and a desire to do better, according to Joan Trotta, founder and managing partner of consulting firm Leaders Edge.
Accreditation organizations expect ASCs to perform quality assurance performance improvement projects using a 10-step documented process, according to Surgical Information Systems Clinical Solutions Specialist Daren Smith.
Envision Physician Services named Tony Andrulonis, MD, its new president of emergency medicine.
Nelson Banks, MD, 75, died March 27 in Buffalo (N.Y.) General Medical Center following surgical complications, The Buffalo News reports.
As the healthcare industry shifts its model of care, incorporating data into the clinical workflow and using it to inform decisions is crucial, according to HealthEdge chief nursing officer Kim Ingram.
When health system leaders are asked how they intend to make their ambulatory networks more consumer friendly, many point to their organization’s new one-stop ambulatory care center, on-line scheduling, patient portal or upcoming telehealth plans.
