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job offer. Ensure that the potential employee understands the job description and your expectations regarding attendance, hours, behavior and attitude. Ask candidates if there are any circumstances that would make it difficult or impossible to comply with those expectations. Remember, however, that you can't directly ask if they have children, if they're pregnant or if they have any illness that would prevent them from meeting the demands of the job. These are interviewing no-no's that can get you into a lot of legal trouble.
Ms. Geier (annbgeier@gmail.com)
is founder of Geier Consulting, where she uses her clinical and ambulatory surgical center expertise to help ASCs improve compliance with regulations and standards. She previously served as the senior vice president of operations at Ambulatory
Surgery Centers of America. She's based in Charleston, S.C.
