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One of the biggest challenges in designing and building a new surgery center is identifying all the little details that will help your center run smoothly. Often great ideas don't come to you until you've moved in and started using the building. By then it's too late to get deeper cabinets, wider doorways and more storage space or to relocate the nursing station — and you're left with painful reminders of what could have been. Here are 25 construction details that you may not have thought about, but will pay off in the long run.
