The regulation should allow six months after operation begins to prepare and implement a plan for a new facility and for acquisition of existing facilities.

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But on the day of our interview, nearly six months after the operation, Claudia was having a bad day.

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Bill finally got his operation at the fifth attempt - two months after surgery was first scheduled, and nearly six months after cancer was originally diagnosed.

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