Leadership

Ramez Awwad, MD, joined the Saratoga Hospital Medical Group, Saratoga Today reports. Saratoga Hospital Medical Group provides services on the second floor of the Saratoga Surgery Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Republican Physician Paul Johnson declared his bid for a seat in House District 44, according to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. The district primarily covers downtown Cheyenne, Wyo.

Here are seven executive changes that occurred over the past month.

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.

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.