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Day of surgery, patient arrives and checks in at registration Come in from front door, go to registration, check in and the secretaries notify pre-op nurses who get the patient. Each admitted individually. [Free-Standing ASC] Business office first place go when come here. Guardian checks patients in.
For check in they need a picture ID. They also need you to have a ride. The ASC likes to have an estimated time it takes to get from patient's house to ASC so that if they need to call they can catch them before they leave if the schedule changes.
Appendix D. Site Visit Comparison Process | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)