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Equipment Planning: How to Do it Right the First Time
Poor equipment planning can cost big money and delay the opening of your new surgical center.
Dianne Taylor, Contributing Editor

Picture this. You've spent six months working like a dog on your new surgical center, and despite many hurdles, the drywall is up, the paint is fresh and you're ready to install your new equipment. You're home free. That is, until you discover your sterilizer can't fit through the three-and-a-half-foot-wide doors of the new facility, and you have to rip out the doorways and reframe them. Then, once you get the sterilizer in place, you can't set it up right away because you discover it needs a special water conditioning system. A week passes, you get the water conditioner installed, and now you're ready to go. You test-run the sterilizer, and it works! But because the fire-sensing system on the ceiling was installed about a foot in front of the unit, the heat sets off the water sprinkler system, causing water damage facility-wide.

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