Surgeries moved to ASC after Vermont hospital flooded 

The University of Vermont Medical Center is redirecting some surgeries to its ASC after a burst pipe resulted in the flooding of  most of its operating rooms over the weekend, VTDigger reported April 4. 

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The Burlington-based hospital delayed 49 surgeries April 4 and will reschedule outpatient nonemergency surgeries on a case-by-case basis. Emergency and inpatient surgeries will continue in the building.

A few surgeries were moved to the hospital’s Fanny Allen surgical center in Colchester, Vt., according to the VTDigger.

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