New pediatric surgery chief appointed at children's hospital

The Nationwide Children's Hospital recently appointed Gail Besner as the chief of Pediatric Surgery.

With hospitals and medical facilities looking for more efficiency in supply chain management, Besner could bring fresh and innovative ideas to improve cost savings without compromising patient's care.

Besner is also the director of the pediatric surgery residency program and principal investigator in The Research Institute at Nationwide.

“Nationwide Children’s is home to one of the very first and most distinguished training programs in pediatric surgery in the U.S. and the position of chief of pediatric surgery has been held by some of the finest pediatric surgeons in the world,” said R. Lawrence Moss, surgeon-in-chief at Nationwide Children’s. “We recently completed an extensive national search for our next Pediatric Surgery chief, a process which attracted interest from a spectacular group of candidates."

A rural hospital in California recently saved $1.2 million in its first year of teaming up with a supply chain improvement alliance, which is improving the financial state of the hospital in addition to maintaining patient care.