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Easy & Inexpensive Census Building Ideas
If you continue to do what you’re doing, you’ll continue to get the same or worse results.  If you really want to grow your census quickly - you’ll need to make significant changes now. Your census building success is mostly a result of your willingness to try new marketing strategies.  The areas you’ll need to make changes in are the foundations of long-term care marketing.  They include:  
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How to Eliminate Budgeting Challenges
Many long-term care facilities invest most of their efforts on moving backwards with budget cuts.   You have two variables when working with the budget.   The easy-to-do budget balancing variable is to make cuts. The more difficult, upward moving variable is to set realistic budgets and exceed your revenue targets.
I suggest putting more emphasis on the offensive moves that would enhance revenue. There is no limit to the revenue generating potential; there is a limit on how much you can cut from your budget. You could reduce your budget cutting pressure by... (Click here to read more...)
Improving Your Payer Mix
All of your existing resident’s quality of care is at risk if you’re not fiscally responsible with your payer mix.  Ask you customers how they will be paying for your services fairly soon into the sales process. If your prospective customer is on Medicaid, and you have a wait list for Medicaid accommodations, you'll want to provide that information early on. Likewise, if they don't have sufficient resources to be considered a private pay resident you also want to let them know early in the process to avoid an unproductive interchange. (i.e., building false hopes and delivering an unintentional disappointment.) I've found that (Click here to read more...)

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