Leadership

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. 

Most ASCs consider referral marketing the most important marketing strategy for continuously bringing in new patients, according to MindStream Creative.

HHS' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health CMO Vanila Singh, MD, will lead the agency's Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force, India West reports.

Amid buyout concerns and the increasing risk of losing surgery volume to physician offices and ASCs, hospitals and health systems should consider shifting some volume to physician partners, according to Kaufman Hall. 

Bonita Springs, Fla.-based Gulfshore Urology's David Wilkinson, MD, was named a UroLift Center of Excellence.

Joan Miller, MD, received the American Ophthalmological Society's Lucien Howe Medal for her service to the retina and ophthalmology fields.

The International Association of HealthCare Professionals named Mark Griswold, DO, in its The Leading Physicians of the World publication.

Fort Collins, Colo.-based Front Range Center for Brain & Spine Surgery awarded two Fort Collins-based Centennial High School seniors $1,000 each, North Forty News reports.

Tenet Healthcare appointed two new independent directors amid a year-long board shake-up.