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Renovate, Expand or Relocate?
What to do when you don't have enough square feet or OR minutes to meet your surgeons' demands.
Stephen R. Blom, RN, MAHSM, CASC

As an outpatient surgery administrator, you could have worse problems than growing so fast that you run out of hours in the day and OR minutes on the schedule before you run out of surgeons who want to bring patients to your facility. But that was our case at Specialty Surgery Center of San Antonio, a two-OR, 6,500-square-foot facility that reached capacity not long after we opened in 1998.

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