This thorough and highly informative book is a must-have step-by-step guide for those planning to open a new ambulatory surgery center. Dr. Shakeel Ahmed, founder and CEO of Atlas Surgical Group, the largest privately owned group of ambulatory surgery centers in the Midwest, has compiled and detailed every step of the entire procedure, from design and development, the architectural and engineering issues of building a complex commercial real estate project, as well as placement, construction, state and federal accreditation, staffing, equipment, supply chain, infrastructure, and the implementation of different surgical specialties in a new ambulatory surgery center.