{"id":855,"date":"2017-02-14T21:09:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogadvancedpracticemanagement.webaloo.com\/?p=855"},"modified":"2017-02-14T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T21:09:11","slug":"should-you-add-another-operatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/should-you-add-another-operatory\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOULD YOU ADD ANOTHER OPERATORY?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Much More Production Do You Need To Justify Equipping Another Room? \u2014 Less Than You Think!<\/p>\n<p>As you all know, I am big on \u201c<strong>Result Control<\/strong>\u201d as contrasted with Cost Control. As Peter Drucker says, \u201cIn business, costs are inevitable. A smart manager focuses on where to put your resources (capital, labor, time, etc.) where you get the best return. That\u2019s \u2018Result Control\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s the answer?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c10 more Doctor Visits per month &#8211; 2-\u00bd per week or 35 Hygiene Visits per month will make adding that room a far better return than anything on the Stock Market!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plus the Intangible Benefits of adding another room:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can accommodate more patients during peak times<\/li>\n<li>Flexibility<\/li>\n<li>Less stress \u2013 give you some growth momentum<\/li>\n<li>Back up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In Summary:<\/strong> It\u2019s a lot easier to cost justify an additional room than you think it is. Take the money out of the Stock Market and put it into your own business and you\u2019ll get a much better rate of return and better days to boot.<\/p>\n<h2>Cost Benefit Decisions in General<\/h2>\n<p>We can help you run the numbers on almost anything. Just call.<\/p>\n<h2>Open Time? Fear Not!<\/h2>\n<p>One of the biggest barriers to practice growth is the Doctor\u2019s fear and loathing of \u201cOpen Time\u201d in his\/her and the hygienists\u2019 schedule. It causes Doctors to go slow in adding rooms, adding hygiene capacity and taking other measures to ensure practice growth.<\/p>\n<p>Every practice is going to have open time. As long as you schedule humans, it\u2019s inevitable! If you wait to get open time down to less than 7% of your work hours, you\u2019ll never expand capacity to grow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Much More Production Do You Need To Justify Equipping Another Room? \u2014 Less Than You Think! As you all know, I am big on \u201cResult Control\u201d as contrasted with Cost Control. As Peter Drucker says, \u201cIn business, costs are inevitable. A smart manager focuses on where to put your resources (capital, labor, time, etc.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apm-news","category-bulletin-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.advancedpracticemanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}