David Daniel, CEO of Lakeland (Fla.) Surgical & Diagnostic Center, won the second annual Healthcare Administrator Award from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. Lakeland Surgical reduced its infections to just two, even as its number of procedures grew by more than 35% to 19,000 over a three-year period.

Daniel was interviewed at APIC's International Infection Prevention Week ceremony on Oct. 14, 2010, by Jessica Zigmond, Modern Healthcare's Washington bureau chief.

Daniel wrote about his surgery center's efforts to eliminate infections in the From the C-Suite from the Jan. 3 edition of Modern Healthcare.