Leadership

Here are 10 numbers pointing to industry trends that physician leaders need to know:

Kimberly Becher, MD, has been promoted to chief medical officer at Rock Cave-based Community Care of West Virginia, where she has been working as a family physician since 2014, according to a Sept. 29 report from The Inter-Mountain. 

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.