Kathleen Hickman

I think all of those things are things I would say people should be prepared for moving new service lines into their center.

Well, I'm thinking about growth in terms of CMS finally looking at more codes that can be done in our ASC setting.

So that's really exciting to us because we know that they've approved over 276 codes for 2026.

So we know that with that, there'll be several codes that we can grow our center.

So we think that's going to be one of our areas of growth.

And we're looking a lot toward culture as well.

Culture is something that I think isn't looked at enough, but culture enables innovation.

Innovation promotes growth.

So the more innovative you can become with these newer codes and these expanded codes, I think we have more staff engagement with leadership development.

And I think that would be a very big area for us to look out of the next 12 months is the CMS approval list to see what we can do to add to our center and then

how to really enhance our culture to enable innovation and then grow even bigger.

Let's see.

We talked about consolidation.

I think AI, I think we're all looking at AI.

AI is very important.

I think we can really use AI to our benefit.

It'll help probably create efficiencies for us.

We have a never-ending staffing challenge.

It may be able to take over a space that we could not fill.

Maybe we can engage AI to help us do some of the work that otherwise a person has done.