Becker's ASC Review

48 JOINT VENTURES Envision makes changes to leadership team — 4 insights By Eric Oliver Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare made a pair of appointments to its leadership team. What you should know: 1. Envision added Wessel Booysen as executive vice president and chief financial officer July 13, and on Aug. 1 added Ilene Moore as senior vice president and general counsel. 2. Mr. Booysen comes to Envision after a tenure as managing director and CEO of Molson Coors Beverage for Asia Pacific and Africa. He succeeds Teresa Sparks, who transitioned to an advisory role. 3. Ms. Moore recently served as general counsel for DaVita Medical Group. She succeeds Craig Wilson, who is transitioning out of the role. 4. Mr. Booysen and Ms. Moore now report to CEO Jim Rechtin. n Orthopedic, spine surgeons partner on Las Vegas ASC — 4 quick facts By Angie Stewart S mithfield Surgical Partners has another de novo development, this time in Las Vegas, the ASC management and development company's CFO told Becker's ASC Review. Four quick facts: 1. The Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Surgery occupies 13,000 square feet. 2. It was developed in partnership with orthopedic and spine surgeons. 3. Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Surgery opened in July and began doing cases in August. 4. This is the sixth ASC in Smithfield's portfolio. Five are in Michigan. n New Orleans hospital opens $14M outpatient surgery center By Angie Stewart University Medical Center New Orleans opeed a $14 million outpatient sur- gery center. The outpatient surgery center opening was held Aug. 11, according to com- munications specialist Alisha Bell. University Medical Center held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new facility Aug. 6. The event was "socially distanced," Ms. Bell said. University Medical Center New Orleans is part of New Orleans-based LCMC Health. n Michigan cardiac surgical center opens Las Vegas location: 5 details By Laura Dyrda G rand Rapids, Mich.-based Ad- vanced Cardiac & Vascular Centers opened a new office in Las Vegas in July. Five things to know: 1. e new location is the practice's first outside of Michigan and only outpatient endovascular center in the region. It has three locations in Michigan. 2. Rick Bernstein, MD, and George Pliagas, MD, lead the new Las Vegas center, which will include 16 vascular professionals. e Las Vegas location will include compre- hensive vascular, arterial and vein care. 3. In the past two years, since ACV Centers opened, around 10 percent of its patients have come from outside Michigan, which was part of its decision to expand in Las Vegas. "With our new Las Vegas office, we are able to give patients living outside the Midwest another convenient way to receive highly personalized care that addresses se- rious health conditions, prevents amputa- tions and gives them their lives back," said Dr. Bernstein. 4. e practice's physicians partner with primary care providers, podiatrists and wound care professionals to take a multi- disciplinary approach to care. e center will treat peripheral artery disease and critical limb ischemia complications. 5. ACV Centers founders Jihad Mustapha, MD, and Fadi Saab, MD, plan to make their model for care national and open centers throughout the U.S. n

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