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Category : Vantage News
Vantage Clinical Solutions launches new website for SOL Santa Cruz
Vantage Clinical Solutions is proud to announce the launch of www.solsantacruz.com, a dynamic and interactive online presence created for SOL Santa Cruz of Santa Cruz, CA. The website and comprehensive online presence was created to meet the dynamic needs of this exciting healthcare practice which provides a unique blend of chiropractic and physical therapy care to athletes and active persons in Santa Cruz county.
The goal of the SOL Santa Cruz website was to expand the SOL Santa Cruz online footprint by appealing to a diverse market consisting of the active, athletic, and injured within Santa Cruz county. Attention was placed on emphasizing the strength of the SOL Santa Cruz brand, while allowing visitors to the site to have an interactive and intuitive online experience.
The SOL Santa Cruz online presence was not limited to the SOL Santa Cruz website however, and was carefully crafted elsewhere in the online world. This was achieved by creating a branded presence within relevant social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, a themed Wordpress blog, and through the integration with online directories such as Google, Yahoo, Yelp, and more. “The intent of the project was to focus on creating an online community for SOL Santa Cruz, rather than simply a website,” said Tannus Quatre PT, MBA, and lead of the project. “We were very pleased with the extent to which we were able to help SOL Santa Cruz achieve their goals of conveying the diversity of services that makes their practice so successful in the Santa Cruz market.”
Tammara Moore, DPT, and co-owner of SOL Santa Cruz, stated, “Vantage has produced for SOL Santa Cruz a comprehensive and current website for our practice which has exceeded our expectations in every way. Vantage knows private practice healthcare, worked hard to understand our specific needs, and ultimately helped us navigate this technical yet extremely important part of our business in a way that made sense both intuitively and financially.”
Located in Bend, Oregon and Denver, Colorado, Vantage Clinical Solutions has partnered with Smart Solutions (web development and search engine optimization) and Pixelsilk (content management system) to provide a powerful product specific to the needs of healthcare practices such as those within the physical therapy, medical, chiropractic, dentistry, and optometry domains. “The [healthcare] industry knowledge of Vantage Clinical Solutions combined with technical expertise and strategy of our developers and SEO team helped create the product that is truly great, and truly unique to the healthcare market,” said Wendy Roe, sales and marketing executive at Smart Solutions.
Vantage Clinical Solutions is going on it’s 4th year of healthcare management and marketing consulting within the healthcare industry, and is proud to provide solutions to companies such as SOL Santa Cruz through their entire suite of online services known as Vantage eSolutions. If you’d like to learn more about Vantage Clinical Solutions, Vantage eSolutions, SOL Santa Cruz, Smart Solutions, or Pixelsilk, please visit the links below.
SOL Santa Cruz website
SOL Santa Cruz on Twitter
SOL Santa Cruz on Facebook
Vantage Clinical Solutions home
Vantage eSolutions (website management, social media, online listings, search advertising, and email marketing)
Smart Solutions (web development partner)
Pixelsilk (content management partner)
New Vantage website, new services, new features, now live!
We are excited to share that after several months of redesign, development, and content delivery, we are now live with the newest version of the Vantage website, www.vantageclinicalsolutions.com! The new website retains many features that our users appreciated of the last version, with a number of enhancements which are listed below:
- Enhanced service detail: The services offered by Vantage Clinical Solutions are broken into 6 distinct categories, all clearly navigable through the new site interface. The services include: Vantage Management | Vantage Consulting | Vantage Ownership | Vantage Marketing | Vantage eSolutions (NEW!) | Vantage Education (NEW!)
- Improved navigation: Visitors can now navigate using a traditional drop-down navigation menu OR they can jump directly to their area of interest through our new, “Help me to:” navigation option in the left margin of each page.
- New pages for employment and investment relations: After numerous requests for employment and investment opportunities with Vantage Clinical Solutions, we have added opportunity-specific pages for these areas.
- Improved integration with social media outlets: Through our new, “Follow | Share | Learn,” section at the top of every page, it is now easier than ever to stay connected with Vantage Clinical Solutions through Twitter, Facebook, The Healthcare Entrepreneur Blog RSS feed, or Practice Smarter – our informative email newsletter packed with hints and tips for practice owners throughout the country.
- Enhanced design: The more subtle benefit to the new site, www.vantageclinicalsolutions.com now boasts a much cleaner, eye-popping design including a home page slideshow which speaks to each of our 6 service categories.
We’d like to offer a sincere thanks to Smart Solutions, who provided the enhanced design and functionality of the new site, as well as the team behind Pixelsilk, the SEO Friendly CMS platform upon which the Vantage Clinical Solutions site is built. Both Pixelsilk and Smart Solutions are esteemed partners of ours, and provide the platform and support through which Vantage eSolutions are built.
So, we hope you’ll take a look, and please give us feedback if you have further recommendations, comments, or questions about the site.
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Tannus Quatre PT, MBA is a private practice consultant and principal with Vantage Clinical Solutions, Inc., a nationwide healthcare consulting and management firm located in Bend, OR and Denver, CO. Tannus specializes in the areas of healthcare marketing, strategy, and finance, and can be reached through the Vantage Clinical Solutions website.
Ping.fm as a social media manager
Looking for a way to update Twitter, Facebook, your blog, and LinkedIn all in one click? Try Ping.fm. It’s easier than you might think. We’re doing it.
Vantage Clinical Solutions now on Facebook
We talk about it all the time, and now you can follow us along with your friends, family, and favorite companies as well – Vantage Clinical Solutions is on Facebook. If you’d like to keep in touch with our company updates, tweets, and special Facebook promotions, become a fan and let your friends know. We’re here to serve the heathcare communit and love connecting with our clients, friends, and fans in as many ways as possible.
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Tannus Quatre PT, MBA is a private practice consultant and principal with Vantage Clinical Solutions, Inc., a nationwide healthcare consulting and management firm located in Bend, OR and Denver, CO. Tannus specializes in the areas of healthcare marketing, strategy, and finance, and can be reached through the Vantage Clinical Solutions website.
Medical office space: Now is the time to negotiate
Everyone is looking for the silver lining in our current economy, and one positive element of going through this rough patch is that businesses on both sides of the negotiating table are working together. One such area for medical practices is in the area of medical office space leases, an area where commercial brokers are willing to “deal.”
Our company has seen the impact that the economy is having on the ability for practice owners to negotiate with brokers, and I was recently interviewed by American Medical News with regard to the subject. The story published today in an article titled, “Vacancy rates rising for medical office buildings.”
“My firm actually is having commercial agents calling to let us know that they are willing to work with physicians who are looking for additional or new space, even in the more desirable locations close to hospital and medical areas,” said Tannus Quatre, principal of Vantage Clinical Solutions Inc., a Bend, Ore.-based consulting and management firm that works with medical practices.
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Quatre said before deciding on moving to either a larger or smaller space, physicians need to determine whether the amount of medical revenue they collect per square foot is on par with the industry. He said the benchmark in medical collections per square foot is $341.61 for multispecialty groups and $284.26 for family practice clinics.
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Tannus Quatre PT, MBA is a private practice consultant and principal with Vantage Clinical Solutions, Inc., a nationwide healthcare consulting and management firm located in Bend, OR and Denver, CO. Tannus specializes in the areas of healthcare marketing, strategy, and finance, and can be reached through the Vantage Clinical Solutions website by clicking here.
Vantage in the news: “Keep the doors open” program (The Bulletin)
A popular program offered by Vantage Clinical Solutions received attention in The Bulletin today. The program is called “Keep the Doors Open,” and is the company’s response to the economic slowdown that is having a dire impact on many private practices throughout the country. The program includes a pro-bono strategy session which includes addressing the areas of reimbursement, volumes, cash flow, economic opportunities and threats, and marketing. Also included in the program are a number of additional free and low cost solutions that help private practice owners weather our current economic environment.
Click here to read the article – Thank you to The Bulletin for coverage of this important topic.
“It’s this perfect storm of things going on,” said Tannus Quatre, owner of Vantage Clinical Solutions, a health care consulting service based in Bend, who cited the unavailability of credit, job loss and the rise in the share of medical bills people are expected to pay themselves. “Private practices in the local economy are definitely being impacted.”
In the past, Quatre said, medical practices were often coming to Vantage for advice on how to grow and expand their business. These days, more people are asking how to hang on.
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Click here or call (888) 827-5613 for information on a free program dedicated to helping private practices throughout the U.S. strategically adjust to the slowing economy. Free program runs through March 31st, 2009 and is open to practice owners and administrators of any healthcare discipline.
Tannus Quatre PT, MBA is a practice consultant and principal with Vantage Clinical Solutions, Inc., a national healthcare consulting and management firm located on the west coast. Tannus can be reached through the Vantage Clinical Solutions website by clicking here.
“Keep the Doors Open”: New program offered by Vantage Clinical Solutions in response to slowing economy
The following was shared in a press release made available earlier today by Vantage Clinical Solutions, moderator of The Healthcare Entrepreneur Blog.
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Vantage Clinical Solutions Offers Free Help
to Medical Practices Impacted by Slowing Economy
New “Keep the Doors Open” Program Begins Monday, November 17th
Bend, Oregon (November 13, 2008) Responding to the economic conditions currently affecting the local healthcare market, Vantage Clinical Solutions has initiated a free program to assist local healthcare practices with financial and business planning in preparation for a projected tough first quarter of 2009 for healthcare practices. The program is called “Keep the Doors Open,” and is intended for small to medium-sized healthcare practices (medical, dental, physical therapy, optometry, etc.) that are either experiencing or anticipating significant financial turbulence.
Serving communities with a unique combination of healthcare consulting and management services, Vantage Clinical Solutions is in a position to recognize that help is needed quickly in order to keep many small healthcare practices in business. “We follow the trends daily, and have recognized that if something isn’t done to help some of the smaller healthcare practices, our community is going to see a number of them struggle to remain open as we enter 2009,” said Tannus Quatre, principal of Vantage Clinical Solutions. “This will have myriad effects on local communities, and it’s important that something is done to lessen this occurrence as we experience this economic downturn.”
The way in which healthcare practices are being affected stems from a rise in unemployment, which affects the number of insured persons, and from changes to many insurance plans which now require higher deductibles, co-pays, and larger portions of bills which have become the responsibility of the patient. Combined with the tightening of credit markets and declining home values, healthcare practices are entering a “perfect storm” which will affect how and when they are paid for services. “We’ve seen patients already begin to delay treatments and prescriptions because they can’t afford their responsible portion of the bill,” said Quatre. “This impacts the overall volume of patients seeking healthcare services, which results in an overall drop in private practice revenues for many small healthcare businesses out there. We only project this to get worse in the first quarter of 2009 when deductibles renew and patients face larger out of pocket expenditures for healthcare services.”
The Keep the Doors Open program consists of a free strategy session of up to 2 hours in length at which time practice owners and administrators can openly share their concerns regarding their practice, and review materials such as financial statements, marketing strategies, and practice reports with a business consultant who specializes in healthcare practices. This is the first time that Vantage Clinical Solutions has offered a service of this kind in response to economic conditions, and feels that the program will allow practice owners a structured, unintimidating environment through which to seek help. The strategy session will provide ample time to dig into detailed areas of the practice, providing for the development of concrete ideas and strategies that will help healthcare practices brace for the economic storm facing the healthcare industry. The program begins November 17th and will run through March 31, 2009. Click here to set up a meeting through the “Keep the Doors Open” program.
Vantage Clinical Solutions incorporated in 2006 and has seen steady growth since inception. The company assists healthcare practices throughout the country and has partnered with industry leaders to provide the highest quality of consulting and management service available to small and medium-sized practices. In May of this year, Vantage partnered with a consulting firm in Colorado which provides Vantage clients with 30+ years of industry expertise in the management of healthcare practices nationwide.
According to the website, www.vantageclinicalsolutions.com, Vantage Clinical Solutions exists for the mission of improving healthcare through entrepreneurship, offeringhealthcare consulting for clinical practices through Vantage Consulting, fully-hosted practice management solutions through Vantage Management, and logistical and financial ownership assistance for first-time practice owners through Vantage Ownership.
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For more information on Vantage Clinical Solutions, Inc., visit www.vantageclinicalsolutions.com.
Concierge medicine course presented by Vantage Clinical Solutions, Dr. Steven Knope
Vantage Clinical Solutions is proud to partner with author and concierge physician, Dr. Steven Knope to present a one-day workshop dedicated to the concierge medicine model (also known as retainer medicine). The workshop is titled, “Become a Doctor Again: Making Concierge Medicine Work for your practice,” and is intended for primary care physicians who are interested in learning about how the concierge medicine model works, how to determine when concierge medicine makes a viable business model, and how to ultimately transition a current medical practice to the concierge, or retainer model.
The concierge medicine workshop will be held Saturday, November 15th from 8am – 4pm in Phoenix, AZ at the Doubletree Phoenix-Gateway Center. Early bird registration is $595 (received by October 17th) and regular registration is $695 and must be received by November 7th. Registration is available online by clicking here, and phone/fax registration is also available. Phone: (888) 827-5613/Fax: (541) 550-7356.
Dr. Steven Knope is the author of “Concierge Medicine: A New System to Get the Best Healthcare” and has owned his own concierge practice for 8 years (click hereto visit Dr. Knope’s website). He is a pioneer in the area of concierge medicine and is cited frequently by publications and news agencies on the topic of healthcare trends, including the role that concierge medicine plays within our current healthcare arena.
Vantage Clinical Solutions is proud to partner with innovative practice owners and leaders such as Dr. Knope to educate and mold the healthcare landscape through the use of entrepreneurship, creativity, and innovation. We encourage primary care physicians who are interested in learning more about this innovative trend in healthcare business models to take this opportunity to learn from this dynamic and pioneering physician.
We Twitter too
If you’re looking for a new (and easy) way to follow us at The Healthcare Entrepreneur, we’ve made it a step easier for those that Twit. Our posts are now fed through Twitter, making it easy to catch us on the run from your mobile device. So, if you want to catch us on the twit, click here.
Don’t forget that you can also subscribe to our feed through your favorite newsreader.
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Free practice management tools now available online
At Vantage Clinical Solutions, we recently published a number of free practice management tools intended for use by private practice owners and managers.
The tools are simplified for quick and easy use and focus on 5 areas of practice management that we commonly address with our clients: the startup process, budgeting, productivity, breakeven analysis, and strategy.
More detailed versions of the tools are available for purchase and Vantage offers a selection of consulting and management services that work hand-in-hand with the online toolbox in order to help private practices navigate our healthcare economy both efficiently and profitably.
So, check ‘em out and let us know what you think!
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