Leadership 
Workplace belonging expert to open October conference with session on human connection, team retention, and leading in the age of AI ROCKVILLE, MD – June 29, 2026 – Periop Leader Week, the national perioperative leadership event uniting the OR Manager Conference and OR Business Management Summit communities, has announced that…
Periop Leader Network is looking for the ASC Leader of the Year...and we’re counting on you to help us find them. The Periop Leader Network Awards honor perioperative leaders who are making strides to better the experience of surgical patients, improve OR operations, drive healthcare innovation, and inspire the next…
“Please come to the OR. We have moisture in our tray.” My hope is that you never hear these words. But if you do, leadership must act quickly to protect patient safety. Understanding the risk Sterilization is designed to remove harmful microorganisms, but sterility depends on keeping items dry after…
I have walked into a lot of organizations over the last decade. Different industries. Different leadership teams. Different problems on the surface. But the same failure lurked underneath almost every single one. Nobody built the leaders on purpose. When I stepped into the perioperative space three years ago, I did…
Performance improvement isn’t just about turnaround times, first case on-time starts, or block utilization. A less quantitative performance measure often doesn’t receive the attention it should: the workplace culture in the perioperative suite, the ramifications of which can positively or negatively impact success in those more familiar performance metrics and…
Would you like to address your peers in the perioperative leadership community? Have you solved a problem, struggled with a challenge, identified a trend, felt a long-running frustration you can’t contain for much longer? Have you accomplished something great, and want to tell the industry about it? Have you always…
In the intense, high-stakes environment of perioperative services, every decision, tone, and reaction can affect patient outcomes, staff morale, and overall team performance. That’s especially true for those in leadership roles, and especially true when an urgent problem or crisis is occurring. As a perioperative leader, when you find yourself…
Today’s perioperative teams are more diverse than ever, and that diversity can lead to team-damaging conflicts, misunderstandings, resentments and prejudices. As a perioperative leader, how can you overcome those interpersonal issues to build strong, harmonious, respectful, productive teams that truly focus and collaborate to provide consistently superior and efficient patient…
Few operational domains in health care expose leadership capability quite like surgical services. It is where clinical complexity, resource intensity, and financial volatility converge, all in real time. In many organizations, perioperative performance still hinges on daily heroics: capacity huddles, staffing scrambles, reactive scheduling, and near‑constant problem‑solving. The system “works”…
As days, weeks and months pass on the job, people management tasks that seem obvious can get lost in the endless shuffle of projects, crises, change and inertia. During an onstage chat at the 2026 OR Business Management Summit, Kali Rehm, MBA, MHA, business operations manager of surgical services OhioHealth’s…
