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Special Edition: Surgical Construction - February 2020 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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4 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 0 T he main medical campus of the Medical University of South Carolina sits on the Charleston peninsula between Routes 17 and 30, in the midst of seemingly constant traffic snarls. "We made a strategic decision that for non-tertiary care, we needed to do a better job of integrating health care into the communities we serve," says Tom Crawford, MUSC's interim COO. That's C-suite speak for relocating the health system's ambulatory offerings — surgeries, clinics and imaging — to a convenient location near where patients live instead of forcing them drive to historic Charleston for needed care. A One-Stop Shop for Surgical Care The benefits of building a new surgery center in an old department store. On Point Daniel Cook | Editor-in-Chief • MALL STATS A former JCPenney offered the Medical University of South Carolina plenty of square footage and ample on-site parking. MUSC

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