i'm not sure what could account for that. i was thinking that maybe because they are incentivized to provide the procedure at the baked in rate that there's a strong incentive to get patients out of surgery successfully as best as possible (to free up another bed, etc), but i'm not sure what their demand is like.
a more macabre hypothesis is that hospitals don't care much about patients who end up in their own ICU as it's just additional billable coverage, so the precautions aren't as strict.
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they also seem to have a lower risk of infection compared to the national average:
https://surgerycenterok.com/faqs/
i'm not sure what could account for that. i was thinking that maybe because they are incentivized to provide the procedure at the baked in rate that there's a strong incentive to get patients out of surgery successfully as best as possible (to free up another bed, etc), but i'm not sure what their demand is like.
a more macabre hypothesis is that hospitals don't care much about patients who end up in their own ICU as it's just additional billable coverage, so the precautions aren't as strict.