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S E R V I C E S
GI Done Right
Practical pearls to kick your
endo services up a notch.
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
EFFICIENT ENDO Some of the nation's busiest
GI centers share the secrets to their success.
T
he hospital GI department? Take the elevator to the basement, hang a left and head down the cinderblock hall. If you
pass radiology, you've gone too far.
Debbie Hunt, RN, BSN, remembers the cramped, dimly lit hospital
GI unit all too well. Its inefficiencies, too. She was a hospital GI nurse
for 20 years until 2004. That's when she helped open the Saratoga
Schenectady Endoscopy Center in Burnt Hills, N.Y., a sleek, 10,000square-foot, freestanding facility that has skylights, windows and
elbow room throughout. She's got 11 physician-owners, a part-time
colorectal surgeon and more patients — a record 11,000 last year —
than you can shake a scope at. They're at near capacity, most days
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