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BUSINESS ADVISOR
Stephen Earnhart
A Few Things We Can Control
Focus on your facility's economy, not the global one.
Y
ou can waste your
time and energy worrying and wondering
about what next month's election will mean for health care
and outpatient surgical facilities. Or you can accept this
simple fact: Regardless of
whether it's Obama or
Romney for the next 4 years,
the morning after the election, you and your staff will
get up and report to work at your surgical facility, doing what you always do.
While the politicians posture and the winds of change blow, you should
focus on what you can control — those 3 things that always matter in our
business: safety, outcomes and profitability. Do that, and the rest, including
who's occupying the White House (see "Reader Survey"), will take care of
itself.
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Safety
The majority of our hundreds of policies and procedures are geared
toward ensuring that no one is injured by a visit to a surgical facility. But
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