Leadership

Healthcare services company Press Ganey is naming Amy Compton-Phillips, MD, as its consulting division's president and chief clinical officer.

Dallas-based Medical City Healthcare is naming Raylene Platel, MD, as vice president of graduate medical education.

Atlanta-based eye care services network EyeSouth Partners has completed affiliations with Homewood, Ill.-based Arbor Centers for EyeCare and Chicago Eye Institute.

Morgantown-based West Virginia University Medicine is appointing Tom Takubo, DO, as executive vice president of provider relations.

Spike Lipschutz, MD, received a lifetime achievement award from Westfair Communications Doctors of Distinction, according to Sept. 26 reporting in the Greenwich Sentinel.

Fertility health network Boston IVF is welcoming Adrienne Neithardt, MD, to its team of Massachusetts physicians.

Harvinder Sandhu, MD, has been named chair of the department of orthopedics at Stamford (Conn.) Hospital. 

Consumers have more information than ever before about the products they buy, but the healthcare sector has been slow to adopt the trend.

The University of Chicago Medicine is naming Blase Polite, MD, as chief physician at its upcoming multispecialty microhospital in Crown Point, Ind., according to Sept. 22 reporting from nwitimes.com.

Fifty-nine percent of physician-led hospitals offer below-median costs per Medicare beneficiary compared to 51 percent of all hospitals, according to a Sept. 22 study from consultant Ndp | Analytics.