Category Archives: Performance Management

Health Care Industry Annual Turnover Rate About 32%

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Edmund B. Ura

The health care industry is experiencing roughly 32% turnover annually, of which about two-thirds represent “voluntary separations.”  Health centers realize turnover is a significant problem, and a difficult one to tackle.  While everyone wants to reduce turnover, many organizations don’t … Continue reading →

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New Compensation Metrics – A 2017 Resolution

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Edmund B. Ura

Originally posted on The Compensation Times:
The compensation profession suffers from a severe lack of effective metrics.  To be frank, the typical measures used in describing compensation program success really have nothing to do with success.  This year, try something…

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Provider Retention Best Practice

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Edmund B. Ura

Listen to them. I contemplated just “dropping the mic” and walking away after saying that, but felt compelled to explain. In the last few months we’ve had numerous calls and emails from both health centers and PCAs looking for help … Continue reading →

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Health Centers Need to Address Provider Gender Pay Inequities

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Edmund B. Ura

On International Women’s Day, we thought it appropriate to begin the release of information from Merces’ FQHC Provider Productivity and Compensation Survey, the only study of its kind, with data on how female providers’ pay stacks up with their male … Continue reading →

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Your FQHC’s Market-Based Pay Program Causes Gender Inequity

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Edmund B. Ura

Many health centers are only now developing the type of compensation programs they need to support their ever more complex organizations.  However, they are learning to do so at a particularly bad time.  Some years ago, the compensation profession turned … Continue reading →

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