A Smarter Hiring System — Screen More Applicants in Less Time Hiring the wrong person for your practice doesn't just cost you time and money— it disrupts your team, affects patient care, and sends you right back to square one. The good news? You don't have to spend...
Your Key to Success The primary function of the Office Manager is to accomplish the goals and purposes of the practice as determined by the owner. The Office Manager should assist the owner in developing policies that forward the purpose of the business as a whole. It...
Performance Evaluation in a Practice Performance evaluation is viewed as a process to ensure a high quality of service to the patients and clients of the practice by fostering personal and professional growth of the staff. A performance evaluation does not necessarily...
Critical Practice Foundations The Basics Most doctors, when starting their practices, miss some of the basic actions that should be established before opening. An owner of a healthcare practice should always, as a first step, work out the following basics: their...
Knowing how to monitor and measure productivity objectively is the underlying secret of success for any practice or business. No doctor would decide on a treatment plan without properly examining a patient and performing whatever tests are necessary to determine the...
There are two channels or vectors for marketing your practice. The first is internal, the second is external. Internal deals with dissemination and promotion within your practice and to already-established patients or clients. External deals with locating and reaching...
The Office Manager is a key staff member in any private practice. A well-trained, positive and experienced Office Manager is worth his or her weight in gold. If your practice is not prospering, if the doctor finds they are having to cover jobs in addition to their...
Practice owners bring on new employees for a variety of reasons. Often, when practices are undergoing expansion in production and income, they require increased staffing. Or, due to poor past hiring procedures practice owners find that they have to replace employees...
Over the past several months, our research team has conducted many interviews with practice owners across the country regarding “the difficulties of hiring during the”, “Tips on hiring” and “Keeping staff happy”. The information below is a culmination of the data...
It is never too early in your career to start funding your retirement. You may only be one day out of school, but you should be thinking about and planning out a retirement fund. We have found from our surveys that an ongoing decline of interest in practice ownership...