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Archive >  Surgical Construction 2002

Should You Build an ASC?

Before you put the pedal to the metal, do your homework.

Caryl Serbin, RN, BSN, LHRM, Judith L. English and Todd Caruso, CPA

If you are a surgeon looking for more control, block time, revenue and more efficiency, or a hospital in need of a "for-profit" arm and a strategy for keeping your surgeons in the fold, an ambulatory surgery center may be a wonderful investment, as thousands of happy ASC owners will tell you. Then again, it may be one of the worst moves you ever made. Surgeons tend to hear a lot more about successes than failures. But we know of a Northeastern center that was built but never opened, an ASC in the Southeast that was open for only a year before closing, and a gorgeous 30,000 square foot center that's sitting empty to this day. Some experts estimate that as many as a third of all ASCs lose money.

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