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ambulatory surgery center

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ambulatory surgery center,
a medical facility designed and equipped to handle surgery, pain management, and certain diagnostic procedures that do not require overnight hospitalization. Most patients who are in relatively good health may receive treatment at ambulatory surgery centers. The centers may be part of a community general hospital, a specialty hospital, or an independent medical facility with prearranged hospital support. The centers are staffed with health professionals as in conventional surgery departments.

ambulatory surgery center
A free-standing center that performs various types of surgery


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The services provided by the proposed ambulatory surgery center may well fill important needs in his community, but he should consider a much wider range of issues before investing his money.
The organization will expand it's use of the system by deploying additional units to manage implantable medical devices for additional surgical specialties and the ambulatory surgery center.
As a result, they successfully sought outside investment capital, built the ambulatory surgery center themselves and began to profit from its successful operations.
 
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