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toward transforming rooms for over-
night stays and allowing the communi-
ty to have even more options for their
surgical treatments.
“Over the next five years, we’ll cer-
tainly be looking into expanding the
services that we have here for the lo-
cal community. We are always on the
lookout for new specialties and new
specialists to work from Rodney Surgi-
cal Centre. We would hope, in the next
five years, to significantly broaden the
number of services available. We cer-
tainly will be looking to be a 23-hour
unit, having some overnight capacity
but still in the day-care standard. Be-
yond that point, we will look into longer
stay services being made available”,
comments Shelley about the centre’s
five-year plan.
Furthermore, the centre has just start-
ed offering treatments for varicose
veins in the procedure room where mi-
nor surgeries and treatments like skin
lesions have already been performed.
Until recently, clinics who did not of-
fer overnight stays were not subject
to rigorous audits and regulations, ac-
cording to Shelley. However, the Sur-
gical Centre has always complied for
voluntary auditing to maintain centre
standards, both internally and exter-
nally. The patients also seem to think
of the centre as highly competitive be-
cause their feedback is overwhelming-