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Tips For Starting a Successful Birth Center
Tips For Starting a Successful Birth Center
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Back to Basics when Considering Starting a Birth Center
Is Starting a Birth Center Right for You?
Importance of Birth Center Planning
Getting Past Barriers of Just Getting Started
Importance of Business Knowledge for the Future of Midwifery
Myths with Running a Midwifery Business (41:25)
Creating Autonomy and Access to Midwifery Care through Business Ownership (37:20)
Benefits of Being a Business Owner
Midwifery & Birth Center Regulations
Midwifery Scope of Practice (19:48)
Midwifery Regulations
Which Birth Center Model is Right for You? (15:49)
Birth Center Regulations (29:59)
Difference Between Birth Center Regulations and CABC Accreditation (27:15)
Know Your State and Federal Birth Center Regulations (27:15)
Creating a Strong Strategic Plan for Your Practice
Timeliness, Delegation, & Accountability
Build Teams and Systems
Creating Your Mastermind Team (29:11)
Choosing the Best Business Entity Type for Your Birth Center (15:48)
Making a Birth Center Business Plan
Making a Business Plan
Business Entity Types (15:16)
Creating an Executive Summary (22:03)
Company Description
Market Analysis (17:45)
Organization and Management
Products and Services (12:14)
Benefits of Adding Ancillary Services to a Midwifery Practice (30:35)
Marketing and Sales
Financial Projections
Finding Funding to Start Your Birth Center (12:14)
Location Options
What is Best for Your Needs?
How Big of a Space Do You Need?
How Many Birth Rooms Should You have?
What Should the Layout of the Birth Center Look Like?
Lease Versus Buying Building (2:56)
Benefits of Owning a Building with Your Midwifery Practice (27:20)
Marketing Tactics
Common Mistakes with Marketing (23:33)
Determining Your Ideal Client (20:42)
Community Market Analysis (18:12)
Branding Your Business (33:43)
50 Ways to Market Your Midwifery Practice (42:29)
Birth Center Services
Wide Range of Midwifery Services Can Be Offered
Creative Ancillary Services
Benefits of Turning Birth Center into a Community Center
Fee Schedules
Creating Accurate Fee Schedules (55:53)
Cash Versus Insurance Coverage
Payment Structures Available
Staffing
Staffing Options for the Birth Center (25:28)
Strategically Expanding Your Team
Hiring Employees Versus Independent Contractors (22:34)
Hiring, Training, and Firing Staff (23:40)
Midwifery & Birth Assistant Call Coverage
Team Based Care Implementation (34:46)
Business Implementation Strategies for Success
Leverage the Experts Around You
Protecting your Assets (28:42)
Financial Planning for Birth Professionals (38:09)
Legal Defense Tips for Midwives (36:54)
How to Take Your Practice to the Next Level (37:16)
Time Management Tips
Business Support Tools and Templates
Billing and Coding
Insurance Billing Basics
Professional Versus Facility Claims
Billing and Coding Tips
Maternity Care Billing and Coding Tips (30:51)
Commonly Missed Billable Charges
Financial Projections
Who Should be on Staff?
Staff Compensation Ranges
Initial Birth Center Budgets
Break Even Birth Center Budgets
Long Term Birth Center Budgets
Charting Options
Medical Documentation Tips (42:57)
Paper Charting
EHR Options
Policies & Procedures
Administration
Clinical
Quality
Inventory & Supplies
Inventory Organizational Processes
Recommended Clinical Supplies
Recommended Administration Supplies
Midwifery Suppliers
Contracts & Agreements
Financial Agreements
Employment Contracts
Hiring, Firing, & Training Staff (23:40)
Independent Contractors
Collaborating Relationships (24:27)
Accounting
Bookkeeping Basics (23:19)
Accounting Tips (27:34)
Common Tax Deductions (44:48)
Exit Strategies Thought About From Day One
Adding and Removing Business Partners
Business Operating Agreements
Patient Complaints & Lawsuits
Strategically Selling Your Birth Center (66:07)
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