Help for the FQHC Board in Managing CEO Compensation — Bring on the B.A.M.

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 ElementOne, Inc. after leaving 15 years ago to focus on family life. She maintained her skills during this time by dabbling in free-lance consulting work [...]

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

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 [...]

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 — [...]