| starting up your own practice or trying to save a little | | | | can make do with 25 or perhaps you can order a little |
| money for your hospital? Times are tough right now, | | | | less paper because you have 3 extra boxes of |
| so most businesses and individuals are trying to save | | | | printing paper already in your closet. When times are |
| where they can, from driving less to save on gas, to | | | | tough, we have to save where we can, and if that |
| cutting back on superfluous office supplies. There are | | | | means not having enough backstock on hand for the |
| some creative ways to save money for your | | | | next 3 months and shifting to a month to month or |
| business, if you work in the medical profession, | | | | as-needed basis can save a lot of money over a |
| however they work for other businesses too. Here | | | | year. |
| are some tips: | | | | 3. Re-evaluate staff assignments. No one likes to be |
| 1. Buy refurbished medical equipment. If you need | | | | the bad guy, but sometimes if the boss evaluates |
| some medical equipment to get things off the ground | | | | what every staff member’s responsibilities are, |
| or you just need to upgrade from an older machine to | | | | they may find that they can do with one less person. It |
| properly diagnose your patients, you don’t have | | | | may be hard to take that magnifying glass to your |
| to spend a fortune. Oftentimes, medical equipment is | | | | work family, but if times are tough and you need to cut |
| very expensive, and many caring physicians with a | | | | back to save money to keep the practice or hospital in |
| smaller practice or a smaller hospital cannot afford | | | | business, it may be better for the whole if you get rid |
| some of the equipment. A way around this is to find a | | | | of one unnecessary job instead of everyone losing |
| good source for refurbished medical equipment, | | | | their jobs in a few months because you can’t |
| because that used EKG machine is no less functional | | | | stay in the black by never letting anyone go. Being the |
| than a brand new one. Believe it or not, it has been | | | | boss means sometimes you have to be the bad guy, |
| rebuilt to perfect working order and inspected so it will | | | | but in a fiscal and business management light, the other |
| perform and diagnose just like a brand new one would. | | | | staff members will thank you for doing what you can |
| 2. Don’t buy things you don’t need. This | | | | to keep their jobs in the long run. |
| may seem a little silly at first, but oftentimes businesses | | | | We may be experiencing a bumpy financial time in the |
| will get in the habit of having a certain number of | | | | U.S. economy right now, but that doesn’t mean |
| supplies on hand at all times. Go back over your office | | | | that you can’t do well with your private practice |
| supply list and see what you can cut down on. Maybe | | | | or hospital. |
| you don’t need 50 pens every month, and you | | | | |