The Periop Leader 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 generation of perioperative leaders. You can submit nominees for any or all of our three categories: Periop Leader of the Year, ASC…
The inaugural Periop Leader Week will unite two of perioperative leadership’s most trusted events, the OR Manager Conference and the OR Business Management Summit, into a single, integrated educational experience. Whether you’ve attended one, both, or neither, this is something new. Perioperative leaders from hospitals, health systems and ASCs of…
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…
Periop Leader Week, which for the first 39 years of its existence was the OR Manager Conference, will take place this Oct. 4 to 7 in Savannah, Ga. If you’ve already registered for the event, thank you! We can’t wait to see you there! If you haven’t, please kindly allow…
Periop Leader Week, which for the first 39 years of its existence was the OR Manager Conference, will take place this Oct. 4 to 7 in Savannah, Ga. If you’ve already registered for the event, thank you! We can’t wait to see you there! If you haven’t, please kindly allow…
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…
I’ve attended two excellent conferences over the last month (AORN and HSPA, to be specific) and it’s a refrain I heard time and again: More and more perioperative leaders are now paying out-of-pocket for conference travel and registration. That got our team thinking about taking a closer look at this…
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…
The overwhelming hype of artificial intelligence (AI) is touching every aspect of healthcare, and perioperative services are not immune. While the AI hype is real, its true potential remains uncertain, as are its promises of improved efficiencies in human resources, supply chain management and case throughput. Can AI really improve…
We’re laser-focused on delivering a relevant lineup of ASC-specific session topics, speakers, panelists, coach-led bootcamps, peer-to-peer roundtables and networking opportunities for the inaugural Periop Leader Week, to be held Oct. 4 to 7 in Savannah, Ga. Our mission is to provide compelling, must-see content that makes Periop Leader Week the…
