Leadership 
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…
Marshall Health Network (MHN) announced it is “aligning its systemwide surgical capabilities” with the creation of a new "surgical services service line" that it says will be “designed to strengthen coordination, quality and growth across surgical programs throughout the health system.” Anesthesiologist Anthony Dempsey, MD, was named MHN’s physician executive…
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…
The first case of the day is a complex orthopedic procedure. Loaner trays were expected the afternoon before but arrived late in the evening. Sterile processing adjusted priorities to accommodate the load. The industry representative is already in the department at 6:00 a.m., confirming instrumentation and reviewing implant availability with…
If you’re new to the process of developing an ASC, or are looking for a refresher that reframes what really matters when doing so, a lengthy article published recently on the website Money Inc methodically lays out numerous valuable best practices, with an eye on preventing your valuable team members…
Just a note that the opportunity to submit Presentation Proposals for the inaugural Periop Leader Week event, formerly the OR Manager Conference, remains open until March 9 via this link. Our community of perioperative clinical, business and operational leaders from large health systems, small and mid-sized hospitals, and ASCs will…
The 2026 OR Business Management Summit, which wrapped up last Wednesday in Austin, Texas, gathered a robust community of perioperative business leaders from across the full spectrum of surgical facilities to connect, learn and grow together. A strong mix of formal presentations, dynamic keynotes and general sessions, along with highly…
The 2026 OR Business Management Summit, a spirited gathering of perioperative business leaders across the full spectrum of surgical facilities, concluded yesterday in Austin, Texas, and the ASC leadership community’s strong presence at the event was evident and vital. A robust track of ASC-specific programming featured ASC leaders presenting, coaching…
