Position Paper
Course: Comm215
August 15, 2004
Position Paper
New directors often try to resurrect old plans for staffing. Our Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) is a small facility with three operating rooms located across a parking lot from the hospital. While belonging to the hospital, we are not part of the main operating room. Therein lies the rub. Each new Director of Surgical Services wants to combine staffing to make the main operating room more efficient. Cross scheduling or combining of staff in both operating rooms is just not a viable option.
Every two to three years the managem…
