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Tracy Patterson and Laurel Stoimenoff Achieve CHC Designation

Continuum Health Solutions is proud to announce that both Laurel Stoimenoff, PT, CHC and Tracy Patterson, MBA, MHSA, CHC  have met the criteria and successfully passed the examination to achieve the designation as “Certified in Healthcare Compliance” through the esteemed Health Care Compliance Association.  The Principals of Continuum Health Solutions realized that compliance issues were a part of nearly every…

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Physical Therapy In the Urgent Care Setting

Laurel Stoimenoff, PT,  Principal at Continuum Health Solutions, and Hilary Hellman, SLP,  Principal at Ancillary Care Solutions, authored a two part article on developing a physical therapy practice within your urgent care practice.  The articles were published in the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine in June and  July 2013.  You’ll find the links to the articles…

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Urgent-care clinics have everything but profits

By Bill Toland / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette When insurer Highmark Inc. sunk upward of $50 million into the MedExpress Urgent Care chain a year ago, buying a 10 percent stake in the company, MedExpress was valued at somewhere north of $500 million. Today the 11-year-old West Virginia company, with about 90 locations in six states, is…

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Beyond Vital Signs: Managing by Metrics for Optimal Health of Your Practice

Beyond Vital Signs: Managing by Metrics for Optimal Health of Your Practice

Urgent message: Establishing a system of metrics and ‘dashboards’ allows the urgent care operator to quantify key success factors and company values that may otherwise be impossible to measure.     Metric—function: noun \’me-trik\ def. A standard of measurement – Merriam Webster online dictionary.   “What gets measured gets managed.” This pearl of wisdom applies…

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