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Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

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State and federal inspection reports of New Jersey's ASCs are now available online, giving patients an opportunity to make more informed choices abo...

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Archive > August, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 8

Measure Twice, Build Once

What your architect wants you to know before you begin.

David Bernard, Senior Associate Editor

Building a surgery center from scratch can be a long, difficult and stressful process. Among other things, you're drawing up a business plan and arranging financing, coming to grips with budgetary binds and overcoming regulatory hurdles. The entire venture depends on the skilled handling and balance of many variables even before ground is broken.

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