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4 Commercial Leasing Tips for Healthcare Tenants

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By Jeff Grandfield and Dale Willerton

For many healthcare tenants, negotiating a good lease or lease renewal against an experienced agent or landlord can be a challenge. While a doctor focuses on proper patient care, savvy real estate agents and brokers are specialized sales people. Their job is to sell tenants on leasing their location at the highest possible rental rate. 

As explained in our book, Negotiating Commercial Leases & Renewals FOR DUMMIES, tenants may go through the leasing process only two or three times in their entire lifetime – yet they have to negotiate against seasoned professionals who negotiate leases every day for a living. Negotiating appropriate leasing terms is vital for a doctor as the amount of rent he pays will directly affect the practice’s financial bottom line.

Whether you are leasing a new location for the first time or negotiating a lease renewal for your practice, these are some money-saving tips for healthcare tenants:

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Upcoming Heart Health Events at Presbyterian SeniorCare Network

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Heart Healthy Cooking Demo – Oakmont area

The Dining Services Team at Presbyterian SeniorCare Network, will host an engaging cooking demo that will focus on heart healthy foods. Learn better ways of eating healthy that both your heart and stomach will thank you for! You will sample their culinary creations. Yum! This event will leave attendees with a full stomach and some new recipes.

When: February 05, 2019 – 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Where: Presbyterian SeniorCare Network, The Atrium at Westminster Place, 1215 Hulton Road, Oakmont, PA 15139

This event is free, but we ask that you register as seating is limited!

Register by January 29. To register, email OakmontEvent@SrCare.org or call 412-435-8955.

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Building Relationships With Patients on Social Media

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In this age people are more aware of their rights and are looking for doctors who have more than papers. That’s making the internet the first stop people make when searching for a healthcare provider. People are no longer only after the services. They are mindful of who and where they spend their hard-earned dollars. If the PR efforts are anything to go by, organizations across the board are finding that they have to do more on their end to build relationships. 

The role of social media in healthcare

Getting new clients is a byproduct of using social media. However, the primary focus of healthcare providers ought to be fostering relationships and sharing their expertise. Educating the masses about even the simplest of practices could be something to strive for. It paints the brand in a caring light. There is already negative press about how expensive hospitals are and the image that they are only out to make a profit. To be set apart entities would benefit from stepping away from the stereotype and be helpful. 

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Create Your Goals for 2019 — Look to Leadership Past, Present and Future

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By Kim Bassett

The start of each new year is an opportunity to set goals and a timeline in which to accomplish them. It’s a time when your employees are more receptive to change and the start of new initiatives, which presents a unique and timely opportunity for leaders to create change and move the organization forward.

What will you do with this opportunity in 2019? How do you go about identifying your goals? 

Almost everyone is familiar with The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In this story, Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three spirits: Past, Present, and Yet to Come. This story is wonderfully simple and packed full of life lessons. 

Much like old Ebenezer, the first thing I do is to reflect. I take a look back at the previous year and try to identify projects, topics, things that happened that were not fully resolved, or could have been done better. Then I assess and actualize where we are presently. The last goal-setting step is to determine where I’d like us to be by the end of the new year, or in 12-months time.  

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Five Challenges Facing Healthcare Leaders Today

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Healthcare is a broad, large topic that poses challenges for leaders in the industry as well as individual citizens and politicians. However, it is often up to the leaders of this field to tackle the issues at hand. In an exponentially developing industry, here are the challenges healthcare faces as it focuses on higher quality care.

Rising Costs

Research has revealed that healthcare costs and spending often rise at a rate that exceeds inflation. New procedures, medicines, and the public’s increased attentiveness to their health all work in tandem to drive up costs. One of the main challenges leaders in the industry face is finding a way to bring those costs back down.

If you went to visit a sinusitis doctor, for instance, your cost could range anywhere between $100 to $5,000 based on your case before factoring in insurance. That’s a wide divide, and bridging the gap is an uphill battle as technology advances. There are many theories on how healthcare could become more affordable, but leaders in the industry are focusing on funding, grants, and contributors to help with the cost of staff as well as laboratories.

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