At Merces, we are advocates of “best practice” compensation programs, and I have written extensively here on the methods and techniques that we feel are essential to proper [...]
Now that the holidays have passed, and with the Super Bowl a couple weeks away, it is time to think about what your health center will want to accomplish in the area of employee compensation in [...]
I shouldn’t be giving this away for free, but I hope that readers see the simplicity of this, and stop wasting time, effort and money on this topic, and move on to more complex things that [...]
We don’t have a “mailbag,” but I do watch the search terms that lead people to this blog. Last week, I saw one that looked like this: “should we warn people their pay is [...]
Most health centers don’t have a public relations staff, an official spokesperson trained in the arts of media relations, or a lot of experience responding to calls made after the clinic is [...]
One of my FQHC colleagues described the Form 990 as the ultimate public relations piece. After all, it contains a ton of information, including a lot that can make you look bad, or at least [...]
Every year, across the country, hundreds of FQHCs make the fundamental mistake of having internal staff provide the information that will be used in the determination of the compensation of their [...]
In the black expanse of waste that organizations pour into ineffective compensation spending is a bright shining star — payments, typically to departing employees, for unused paid time off. [...]
Merces Consulting Group, Inc. will be a Sponsor of the 2013 National Association of Community Health Center’s (NACHC) National Farmworker Health Conferernce to be held in San Diego [...]
The IRS Form 990 is the tax return filed by not-for-profit organizations, and also a significant document for the disclosure of information concerning the policies and practices of the [...]
