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HEALTH CARE BUSINESS SEGMENT
BUSINESS ISSUES
Is your medical or dental practice, or retirement home or assisted living facility troubled by:
- High turnover in nurse, dental assistant and/or clerical staff?
- New HIPPA law that requires tighter privacy?
- Difficulties in finding a medical or dental associate for your office/s?
- Loose inventory control for medical supplies, food supplies or equipment?
- Difficulty in scheduling around a shortage of Registered Nurses in your area?
- Out of control visitations by relatives or others at all hours of the day or night?
- Improper ratio of caregivers to patients due to unbalanced compensation?
- High patient per-plate costs coming out of your kitchen?
- Delays in third party billings that cripple your cash flow?
- Room for physical and occupational therapy program for patient care?
- Out of control bed leasing programs requiring outside cleaning per patient?
- Inefficient caregiver scheduling requiring overstaffing, and overtime?
- Low occupancy of rooms resulting in a higher fixed cost per unit than desired?
- Lack of quality inspections at the facility for safety and health concerns?
- Increasing energy costs due to lack of preventive maintenance?
- Lack of training for night-shift caregivers, and/or kitchen staff?
George S. May International Company consultants can improve your business and profits through planning, tracking and control of:
- Labor scheduling in order to lower overtime and improve ratio of caregivers to patients.
- Improved plate costing in the kitchen to lower food costs.
- Review of paper flow through accounting to speed processing and payment cycles.
- Review of overall programs for the patient to attract new clientele with a better quality of life environment.
- Proper budgets in order to know fixed per-patient and break-even costs.
- Proper inspections on all shifts to improve care, safety and health.
- Proper check lists for machinery and equipment to hold down costs and repairs.
- Proper training of management and staff to ensure higher standards of care and a higher cost awareness on the part of all organization employees.
- Comparative review of profit and expense factors to the industry standards.
- Long term strategy for organizational succession and survival in a changing medical and insurance environment.
We will help you make your medical or dental practice, or your care facility business better!
WEBSITES
American
Medical Association
www.ama.com
American
Dental Association
www.ada.com
Canadian
Medical Association
www.cma.ca
List
of nursing-related site
www.nursefriendly.com/nursing/natlink.htm
Medical
Group Management Association
www.mgma.com
List
of dental-related site
www.dentalsite.com/dentists/dentasso.html
American
Council for Fitness & Nutrition
www.acfn.org
National
Association for Home Care - Department of Research
www.nahc.com
American
Association of Health Plans
www.aahp.org
Assisted
Living Federation of America
www.alfa.org
American
Diabetes Association
www.diabetes.org