Douglas Padgett, MD, surgeon-in-chief and chair of orthopedics at New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery, has built his career at the intersection of surgical innovation, education and patient-centered care — a balance he continues to refine as the field…
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29 hospitals have earned Healthgrades’ Specialty Excellence Awards for Spine Surgery three years in a row. Here are the best hospitals in the U.S. for spine surgery three years in a row in alphabetical order: 1. Abbott Northwestern Hospital (Minneapolis)2.…
Teaming up with Optum was an important aspect of getting outpatient orthopedics off the ground and soaring in recent years, Amar Patel, MD, a board member of OrthoWest, said. Dr. Patel spoke with Becker’s about how he made the most…
Hospitals and health systems are losing patients, revenue and community confidence to months-long behavioral health waitlists. Children’s Wisconsin reduced a 600-patient child psychiatry waitlist to zero by expanding access to subspecialists without capital buildouts or year-long recruitment cycles. This report…
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Here are six spine surgeons who joined new practices in October: Note: This is not an exhaustive list. 1. Alvin Chan, MD; Casey Slattery, MD, and Kushagra Verma, MD, joined Irvine, Calif.-based Hoag Orthopedic Institute. 2. AdventHealth Medical Group added…
Operating rooms power hospital margins, yet preventable cancellations and administrative bottlenecks create costly idle time. In this Becker’s Perioperative Summit session, three leaders discuss how AI-driven automation is improving readiness, OR utilization and patient experience. Today’s perioperative teams face manual…
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Sridhar Yerramreddy
CEO and Founder of Steer Health
Farzad Massoudi, MD
Board-certified Neurosurgeon, Orange County Neurological Associates
Sunil Patel
Regional Chief Medical Officer at Prime Healthcare
Alejandro Lopez, DO, performed New Jersey’s first fully endoscopic laminectomy using Amplify Surgical’s dualPortal technology, according to an Oct. 28 news release from Camden, N.J.-based Cooper University Health Care. The milestone procedure was done in collaboration with Inspira Neuroscience. With…
In the One Big Beautiful Bill era, capacity is no longer an operational detail — it’s a financial imperative. Hospitals that can’t quickly adjust capacity, shorten stays or match resources to fluctuating demand face real financial threats, including margin erosion…
Dec 3, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM America/Chicago
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Peter Pronovost MD, PhD, FCCM
Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, University Hospitals
Shanthi Margoschis MSN, DHA, LSSBB, CPHQ, NEA-BC, CEO
Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital
Chris Van Gorder, MPA, FACHE
President and Chief Executive Officer at Scripps Health
Mohan Giridharadas
Founder & CEO, LeanTaaS
Hospitals can’t afford to wait for financial pressures to ease. With labor shortages, reimbursement cuts and capital constraints mounting, systems like Inova, Hartford HealthCare, Providence, UCSF Health and WVU Medicine are moving fast — using AI and smarter operations to…
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Workforce shortages, rising acuity and financial strain are testing anesthesiology services across the country. But some systems are adapting — and thriving — by embracing care team models, data-driven scheduling, and change management strategies that work. In this webinar, anesthesia…
Dec 8, 2025 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM America/Chicago
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David Leachman, MD, FASA, FACHE
Chief Executive Officer, Anesthesia, Sound Physicians
Noele Morse, DNP, MS, CRNA, CENP, NEA-BC
Chief Anesthetist Officer, Sound Physicians