Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare made a pair of appointments to its leadership team.

The elective surgery ban earlier in the year has left a permanent mark on medical tourism as hotels built next to, and occasionally in partnership with, hospitals sat relatively empty throughout the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Baltimore Sun reports.

Wael Barsoum, MD, is leaving his post as CEO of Cleveland Clinic Florida to join HOPCo, the owner of orthopedic specialty practices including Phoenix-based the CORE Institute, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

Nashville, Tenn.-based Surgery Partners expanded its partnership with BridgeHealth to assist more patients in accessing orthopedic care.

The former CFO of United Surgical Partners International alleges he was fired in retaliation for reporting potential securities law violations, according to a lawsuit filed June 24 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

As surgery centers around the country slowly begin to re-open, business will be anything but “usual.”

Lance Kugler, MD, has practiced in both open-access and office-based ASCs, according to an article he penned for Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today.

A total of 17.7 million healthcare workers are potentially ineligible for emergency paid sick leave benefits through the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. 

According to Time magazine, the coronavirus pandemic has created “the world’s largest work-from-home experiment.”

Leawood, Kan.-based ValueHealth named former Cerner executive Don Bisbee its new president, the company announced June 11.

As a national medical group, Envision Healthcare "has a role to play" in fighting racial inequality and injustice, CEO Jim Rechtin said in a June 4 letter to team members.

Massachusetts healthcare providers experienced "pretty striking and totally unprecedented" employment changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, said David Auerbach, PhD, research director for the state's Health Policy Commission, in an interview with The Lowell Sun.

Nashville Business Journal ranked the CEOs of public companies in the Nashville, Tenn., area based on 2019 compensation, and three healthcare executives were named among the top earners.

Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center's outpatient surgery facility is now an approved training site for Raymond, Miss.-based Hinds Community College, the Jackson-based practice announced June 11.

Patrick Conway, MD, announced on Twitter June 9 that he joined Optum as the company's CEO of Care Solutions.

A regional director for Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare is leading a healthcare coalition in support of former Florida Rep. Jason Brodeur's Senate bid, according to FLAPOL.

Tenet Florida Physician Services, a Boca Raton-based multispecialty physician group, has named Michael S. Davis CEO. 

Several of the largest hospital chains in the U.S. secured funding through government programs for COVID-19 relief as smaller practices struggled to do the same, Reuters reports.

Southern Bone and Joint Specialists of Hattiesburg (Miss.) named Dixie Norris, BSN, RN, administrator of Southern Surgery Center, Mississippi Business Journal reports.

John Carradine will bring more than 40 years of information technology experience to Surgical Notes as the company's new CFO.