Author
Wallace Weeks
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In home care companies, the cost of employees completing tasks averages 53 percent of the expenses incurred. (The other 47 percent is for products.) Employee
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Developing a Bid You Can Live With
A bid you can live with means that it will be competitive and profitable. A noncompetitive but profitable bid doesn't win a contract. A competitive but -
Measure and Manage
The fact that all businesses incur expenses demands that all who fully manage a business use activity-based costing/activity-based management (ABC/ABM). -
Vision and Values
Alignment of a company's vision and values with its strategies, policies and management controls is the foundation of high performance. Organizations -
Time Is Money
Let's define the somewhat unconventional term product-payer combination. The words and are certainly clear. The is simply a way to describe the delivery -
Hitting the Sweet Spot
Sporting goods manufacturers and those who use their products became very conscious of the sweet spot about three decades ago. Since, the makers of tennis -
What’s Your Problem?
Every provider has glitches or mistakes they routinely make in their operations. It is a part of having humans involved in the process. But each time -
Over Troubled Waters
During a recent visit, I learned that Italy has a government-provided health care system similar to Medicare and Medicaid. Citizens with enough money -
Stay in the Game
Prior to the early 1980s (which is not ancient history because none of us are ancient), hospitals tried to manage length of stay up. This increased both -
Building the Bottom Line
I recently had the opportunity to visit with an impressive man. Matt Kneeland is president of Care Medical, headquartered in Visalia, Calif., with seven


