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Many hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) today look more like construction zones than health care facilities as they build new perioperative suites and renovate existing suites to keep up with patient demand and new technology requirements. “Renovating and building perioperative suites has become one of the fastest growing skill sets for health care leaders,” says Aimee Watson, MS, CMRP, a senior manager in healthcare at St. Onge, an independent engineering firm that provides design, logistics and supply chain consulting to hospitals and ASCs. “But we never received a class on this in school.”