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PPE or insufficient testing for incoming patients, surgical lead- ers need to consider whether their return to elective surgeries is safe for the patients and their staff." Nimble and flexible Mr. Horowitz wonders what caseloads will be like when the initial push of catch-up cases subsides. "We have a couple hundred on back- log, which we'll knock out in a couple of weeks," he says. "But then what? Is anybody really going to want to come into medical facili- ties?" That fear has led him to focus even more on diversifying his anes- thesia business across more facilities and specialties. "You never want to have all your eggs in one basket," he says. "What I've learned pretty quickly in this current reality we find ourselves in is that it's not enough to diversify to a plastic surgeon and an eye surgeon and a podiatrist. You have to look at providing service for elective and non- elective procedures. "Outpatient facilities need to start thinking about this too," contin- ues Mr. Horowitz. "What kinds of services can they provide that won't get shut down by the next pandemic?'" Alternative uses of outpatient facilities during the pandemic haven't really materialized, but the thought exercise could prove valuable. "I think we're going to come out better than we went in," says Dr. Shapiro. "This will end. All these discussions of the possibilities for delivering different kinds of health care in ASCs will have a long-last- ing result [as we] recalibrate because of this pandemic, which has uncovered the best and the worst of health care. We were woefully M A Y 2 0 2 0 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y. N E T • 4 7 "I think we're going to come out better than we went in." — David Shapiro, MD

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