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	Archive > February, 2005	Vol. VI, No. 2

Rescued by a Corporate Partner

This failing surgery center was out of options until a management firm led a facility-saving turnaround.

Camie Overton, BA, CASC, Phoenix, Ariz.

Sell it or close it. That's what I said to the hospital CFO who came to find out why my facility, Metro Surgery Center in Phoenix, Ariz., was hemorrhaging money. The hospital wasn't interested in syndicating the surgery center and within a matter of months, it took my advice, selling us to an ASC management firm specializing in turning around troubled centers.

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