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Archive >  Surgical Construction 2006

Overbuild, Overequip and Overstaff

These are the three surest ways to sink your surgery center.

Diana Procuniar, RN, BA, CNOR

Regardless of repeated advice and recent history, physicians notoriously make three mistakes when they build surgery centers. They overbuild, overequip and overstaff. Any one of these mistakes can single-handedly sink a surgery center. Here's how to spot these errors and correct them before they can do too much damage to your project.

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