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Try These 8 Healthcare Employee Engagement Strategies for Better Patient Outcomes

Are some employees just more passionate about their work than others? Or can you inspire your staff to do more for your practice than just completing tasks? In this blog, we’re tapping into our experience with hundreds of practices to give you our best tips to improve employee engagement.  What is Employee Engagement in Healthcare? …

- Eliot Burdett
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4 Ways to Increase Healthcare Worker Appreciation for Happier Teams and Healthier Patients

Authentic appreciation is often overlooked and underrated in healthcare environments. Healthcare and dental practices often have high turnover rates and low employee engagement. They may also struggle with team-building. Unsurprisingly, appreciation can dramatically impact your dental employees and working relationships. Happy healthcare environments don’t happen by accident. They happen by appreciation! We’ve witnessed what makes …

- Ryan Thornton
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5 Proven Ways to Improve Healthcare Employee Retention and Keep Top Dentists and Specialists Long-Term

In the highly competitive dental job market, an excellent recruiting strategy that helps you attract the right professionals is a great place to start. But what are you doing to keep those professionals once you’ve hired them? Having a proper healthcare employee retention strategy in place is paramount. Why Does a Dental Employee Strategy Matter? …

- Eliot Burdett
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5 Expert Tips on How to Recruit Dentists (And 4 Common Hiring Mistakes)

How do you recruit dentists that align with your practice culture, provide top patient care, and increase overall revenue? This guide has the answers. Corporations, groups, and private practices alike are all competing for the best and brightest of dentistry. The challenges surrounding how to hire great dentists come at no surprise, that is why …

- Eliot Burdett
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Dear Tooth Fairy: What Dental Practice Owners And DSOs Are Asking For

Dental practice owners and DSOs might have some wishes of their own for the tooth fairy, and help finding dentists and specialists would undoubtedly be high on that list.  The shortage of qualified dental professionals that existed before the Covid pandemic has only gotten worse, with dentists and specialists retiring at a rapid rate. Their replacements …

- Eliot Burdett
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Hiring the Best: Only 1 of 4 DSOs Getting Top Dentists

For most dental practices, staffing shortages were already a thing before the Covid pandemic, and they still are. For DSOs hoping to grow patient visits and revenues, maintaining an adequate inflow of qualified practitioners has become more and more difficult.  While ADA research shows recent increases in the number of dental graduates, that’s balanced against …

- Eliot Burdett
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Next Gen Dental Tech: To Enhance Patient Experience

The big news in dental tech has been 3D printing and the promise of robotics, but there’s another tech revolution that promises to remake the look of dental offices. While practices have long understood that a comfortable environment was important to make their patients feel confident about the service they’re getting, designs have leaned toward …

- Eliot Burdett
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5 Ways DSOs Are Improving Dentistry

Corporate dentistry has generated a lot of criticism, but there are some clear benefits to individual dentists and to the dental industry.  The increase in the number of Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) and in the number of dentists who work for them has caused some controversy. The decline in individual practices (which is driven by …

- Eliot Burdett
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U.S Dental Conferences in 2022

After more than 20 months of lock-downs, restrictions, social distancing, virtual meetings, and seminars due to COVID19, it’s nice to finally return to in-person conferences. Why You Should Attend Dental Conferences Dental conferences provide many benefits for you and your career:  Worldly keynote speakers from the Dental Science and Dentistry communities The latest advancements in …

- Eliot Burdett
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The Dental Market Will Nearly Double This Decade

In spite of the technological and management forces roiling the industry — and in part because of them — this is actually a good time to be a dentist. According to Precedence Research, global revenues from dental services are forecast to grow from $371 billion in 2020 to $699 billion by 2030, an 88% increase. …

- Eliot Burdett
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