Private Practice Occupational Therapists Succeeding with Consulting
Therapists Are Fighting Back Against Sluggish Economy with Practice Marketing Techniques
Burbank, CA, May 19, 2008 --(PR.com)-- More and more private practice occupational therapists are utilizing private consulting services. They are getting assistance with practice building, maximizing the reimbursements they receive for their services, overall management, and being able to better control the overall direction of their practices.
Occupational therapists (OTs) help people improve in performing tasks in their daily living and work environments. They work with people who have mentally, physically, developmentally, or emotionally disabling conditions. OTs help people develop, recover, or maintain daily living and work skills.
Consulting firms like Survival Strategies in Burbank, CA, are helping occupational therapists break through the recessionary economy in order to achieve career and business goals. The firm delivers personalized one-on-one training with a practice owner and key assistants at their Burbank facility, then follows up weekly by phone for months afterward to ensure the practice owner is effectively applying their strategies.
Harvey Schmiedeke, President and co-founder of Survival Strategies, stated “We find that Occupational Therapists are largely concerned with practice development and building. New patients is the main thing that most of them want. In fact, this is true across the boards for all types of health care private practices. We have a very successful program that teaches an occupational therapist strategies for developing large numbers of new patient referral sources. Often, the next course they take is on reimbursements, how to more effectively collect money from insurance companies. Next, it’s management – how to more effectively handle the day to day running of a practice, manage personnel effectively and so on. Unfortunately these are things they don’t teach physical therapists in college.”
Mariann Moran, MBA, OTR, CHT, owner of Accelerated Hand Therapy and Rehabilitation in Madison, NJ, commented on her consulting experience with Survival Strategies, “Doing the Survival Strategies Referral Module fueled further growth. My centers grew, but without organizational know-how or structure in place I had no clear idea of what each different office was doing. But knowledge is power. With the help of our Survival Strategies program and the guidance of our internship supervisor, I got my ‘executive’ hat on and proficiency with using these tools. I have significantly less stress and a lot more confidence. I make effective decisions that staff can work with, and I can track and see the results of those decisions in real time. I learned that clear orders, courage, compassion, insistence and persistence really enhance staff who previously may have seemed negative or unproductive.”
Survival Strategies (http://www.survivalstrategies.com) was founded by Mr. Schmiedeke and company Executive Director Craig Ferreira in 1986. Schmiedeke is the nation’s foremost authority in the development of professional referrals, private practice management and marketing, and author of a new book “Keys To Private Practice Success—Marketing and Management Skills They Didn’t Teach You In College.” Anyone interested in the book can get more information at
http://www.survivalstrategies.com/email/kpps_book_promo.htm
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Occupational therapists (OTs) help people improve in performing tasks in their daily living and work environments. They work with people who have mentally, physically, developmentally, or emotionally disabling conditions. OTs help people develop, recover, or maintain daily living and work skills.
Consulting firms like Survival Strategies in Burbank, CA, are helping occupational therapists break through the recessionary economy in order to achieve career and business goals. The firm delivers personalized one-on-one training with a practice owner and key assistants at their Burbank facility, then follows up weekly by phone for months afterward to ensure the practice owner is effectively applying their strategies.
Harvey Schmiedeke, President and co-founder of Survival Strategies, stated “We find that Occupational Therapists are largely concerned with practice development and building. New patients is the main thing that most of them want. In fact, this is true across the boards for all types of health care private practices. We have a very successful program that teaches an occupational therapist strategies for developing large numbers of new patient referral sources. Often, the next course they take is on reimbursements, how to more effectively collect money from insurance companies. Next, it’s management – how to more effectively handle the day to day running of a practice, manage personnel effectively and so on. Unfortunately these are things they don’t teach physical therapists in college.”
Mariann Moran, MBA, OTR, CHT, owner of Accelerated Hand Therapy and Rehabilitation in Madison, NJ, commented on her consulting experience with Survival Strategies, “Doing the Survival Strategies Referral Module fueled further growth. My centers grew, but without organizational know-how or structure in place I had no clear idea of what each different office was doing. But knowledge is power. With the help of our Survival Strategies program and the guidance of our internship supervisor, I got my ‘executive’ hat on and proficiency with using these tools. I have significantly less stress and a lot more confidence. I make effective decisions that staff can work with, and I can track and see the results of those decisions in real time. I learned that clear orders, courage, compassion, insistence and persistence really enhance staff who previously may have seemed negative or unproductive.”
Survival Strategies (http://www.survivalstrategies.com) was founded by Mr. Schmiedeke and company Executive Director Craig Ferreira in 1986. Schmiedeke is the nation’s foremost authority in the development of professional referrals, private practice management and marketing, and author of a new book “Keys To Private Practice Success—Marketing and Management Skills They Didn’t Teach You In College.” Anyone interested in the book can get more information at
http://www.survivalstrategies.com/email/kpps_book_promo.htm
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