If you were going to sell your house, you’d make sure that it’s put into decent or even prime shape before listing it, right?
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Why There’s Always More
There’s always more that you can do to improve your business’s health. To strengthen its position. To improve its chances of survival and beyond.
Unifying Your Group – Medical Group Minute
But your group needs to portray a unified image.
Survey Yourself – Medical Group Minute
How medical groups can use surveys as tools in negotiations with hospitals.
Keeping up Appearances: Verisimilitude – Medical Group Minute
The perception of the truth plays an important role in group and individual physician success.
Survey Yourself
Hospitals often use surveys as a weapon to attack hospital-based groups. No matter who runs the survey, they are prone to error, misuse and out right abuse. In fact over the last three decades, I’ve never seen a medical staff survey that wasn’t defective. Querying all of the psychiatrists on staff about the quality of…
The End of Healthcare Symbiosis Might Just Kill the Host (and End the Career of the Hospital CEO)
The move by hospitals to “strengthen” hospital-based departments, and the hospital’s own finances, by outsourcing to so-called national groups and “contract management companies” might just result in the destruction of the hospital. The chances are even higher that it will end the careers of many hospital executives. Over the last 30 to 40 years, both…
Unifying Your Group
As hard as it is for me to say, it’s been 40 years since I had my summer job at McDonald’s. Yet after all this time, I remember some of the standards-enforcing mechanisms the franchise used, from written instructions on how each of the food items was to be prepared, to cards bearing sayings such…
Ready. Fire! Aim.
“Ready. Fire! Aim.” Maybe you’ve heard that business saying, designed to spur you to action before too much planning bogs you down.
Keeping Up Appearances: Verisimilitude
Verisimilitude: The appearance of being true or real. Unfortunately, it’s not the fact that your medical group is actually the “best,” which, indeed, it might well be, that governs your group’s success. Rather, it’s whether the hospital, or referring physicians, or patients believe that you’re the best. Create that perception. It does not happen by itself. This also is…