FQHC Posts

In this series of posts, I’ll identify practices in migrant/community health centers that may be a waste of precious employee compensation resources.  Today I’ll cover a policy I ran [...]

Twice in that last week I was asked the question “how should we take the economy into account when evaluating our pay structure?”  The fact that this question was actually asked means [...]

When it comes to compensation, especially executive compensation, a frightening number of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) are about a hundred feet up on a tight-rope, without a net, and [...]

Sometimes management mistakes hit a little too close to home, and you realize that the things that organizations do to protect themselves from bad management can end up costing them their best [...]

One of the best places to look for improvements in health center performance, as well as improvement in the quality (and quality of life) of your workforce is at the entry level — [...]

What exactly is the labor market, and what does it mean to a health center manager?  As managers, we want to know what the labor market is, so we can determine what data we need to collect.  The [...]

Welcome to Merces Consulting Group, Inc. (Merces), a management consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations — particularly migrant/community health centers — improve the return [...]