FQHC Posts

Last week I attended the NACHC Farmworker Conference in Denver, met with clients and colleagues and listened to a number of speakers.  Most of the speakers addressed the external challenges [...]

This is a cautionary tale, as well as an informative one.  I was asked to take a look at the compensation program of a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), and read the report of the [...]

One of the most widely held beliefs in the FQHC community is that provider compensation, particularly physician compensation, lags the general market, making it extremely difficult to attract and [...]

Performance appraisal may well be the most despised management process around, and often for very good reasons.  Most performance appraisal forms are only marginally relevant to an employee’s [...]

Increasing the minimum wage doesn’t improve the skills and contributions of those who currently earn the minimum wage – but increasing an organization’s minimum wage may be essential to achieving [...]

The typical Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Board of Directors has only one employee to manage – its Chief Executive Officer.  Many not-for-profit Directors have little to no experience [...]

Linda Budd has returned to the staff at Merces Consulting Group, Inc. after leaving 15 years ago to focus on family life. She maintained her skills during this time by dabbling in free-lance [...]

Kelsey Hogan has joined the professional staff at Merces Consulting Group, Inc. as a Compensation and Organization Specialist. She also functions as the firm’s Marketing Specialist, [...]

We shouldn’t need January 1st as an excuse to work on improving compensation programs, and honestly, any change that was supposed to go into effect on January 1st should have been finalized [...]

One of the trickiest situations I run into in my work with Federally Qualified Health Centers is helping to clarify the role of the Board and the CEO in decisions about organization design and [...]