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Keeping Your Patient Volumes & Finances Steady During Economic Decline

With businesses around the country closing daily, job loss is at an all-time high and employees are losing their benefits. As a result, across nearly all industries, we are seeing a decline in consumer spending, including for health and oral care services. Additionally, after several weeks, and in some cases, months of being closed, dental practices are looking for ways to mitigate fluctuations in their operations and revenue stream. With a backlog of individuals needing access to affordable care, dental […] Read More...

Double Trouble: Overcoming Patient’s Fears of Dental Care and COVID-19

5 Communication Strategies to Get Patients Back in Your Office  Let’s be honest, getting patients to their dentist’s office was challenging, even before COVIDV-19 concerns. In fact, many people are downright scared of the dentist and put off their routine visits. Over the last several months, nearly half of Americans have delayed health care services, including dental care, due to COVID-19 concerns.  In some cases, delaying care is more detrimental to their health than the virus itself. To overcome patient’s […] Read More...

The Latest ADA Poll Indicates Dental Practices Across the Country Have Begun to Rebound

Beginning in March, the ADA Health Policy Institute (HPI) launched a poll to enable them to better understand the impact COVID-19 has had on dental practices and their ability to resume patient care. Approximately 70,000 dentists from across the country were invited to participate and more than 19,000 chose to respond. Following the initial outreach, dentists were also invited to continue their participation by completing bi-weekly surveys to track their practice’s progress. According to their latest survey results, as of […] Read More...

Steps to Take When a Staff Test Positive for COVID-19

Given the proximity required to provide oral care, dentists and their staff are considered to be at a higher risk of COVID-19 exposure. It is essential that dental practices establish protocols to manage potential exposures ahead, both to minimize the risk as well as take the necessary actions if an exposure occurs. To help dentists prepare, the American Dental Association developed a guide that outlines what steps should be taken when members of a practice may have been exposed.  The […] Read More...

Protect Yourself from Virtual Threats During COVID-19

Scammers and cybercriminals are notorious opportunists. With more business being conducted virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has presented many new ways for  them to strike. Recently, the Department of Homeland Security, World Health Organization (WHO), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Better Business Bureau (BBB) have all issued warnings about the increase of COVID-19-related cyber-attacks. As coronavirus news continues to evolve, there are many ways scammers can exploit the public’s fear in order to […] Read More...

Ready To Return To Work, But Your Staff Isn’t?

Tips to alleviate staff concerns during COVID-19 Independent Dental Solutions We often share resources and best practices on the financial and operational side of the dental industry, however, we would like to take a moment to address another, very critical side – the human side.  As businesses across the country are anxiously preparing to re-open, owners, including dentists, should be prepared to address staff concerns about returning to work. Over the last month, dental practices from around the country participated […] Read More...

U.S. Senate Approves Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act – What It Means For Your Practice

On Wednesday, June 3rd, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act to amend rules of the SBA’s PPP loans. Once signed into law, small businesses will have more flexibility and additional time to use funds. The bill includes severalchanges to the program including: Extending the timeframe to use funds to 24 weeks (before businesses had eight weeks) Decreasing the required amount of funds businesses needed to use on payroll to 60%, rather than 75% as well […] Read More...

How COVID-19 Has Impacted the PPE Supply Chain

By, Brian Heyndrickx, Co-Founder & CEO, Independent Dental Solutions In this article I will explain the impact COVID-19 has had on the availability of PPE for health care, particularly in the dental market, and how dentists will need to adapt, as we prepare to move forward into our “new normal”.  To a dentist or health care provider,PPE is as essential to your work as the training you received in dental school. Over the last several weeks, we have heard experts […] Read More...

Determining How Much PPE to Order

Just as consumers are struggling to find essential household items, such as toliet paper and cleaning supplies, dental practices are experiencing similar difficulties securing PPE. Additionally, it can be difficult to determine how much PPE to order. Our PPE estimator can help your practice calculate the amount of PPE you will need by taking into consideration your staffing and patient levels.   Read More...

COVID-19 Weekly Update (Friday, April 10th)

Our COVID-19 Dental Task Force will share COVID-19 updates weekly. For additional information or previous updates, please visit our website blog.   COVID-19 Dental Task Force Updates/Recommendations Each week, the task force will list a few financial and operational updates/recommendations for your consideration: Adding your Infection Control Protocol to your chart notes Include specific steps your practice is taking to minimize risk and maximize protections for everyone, things to include would be; infection control protocols your practice is utilizing and […] Read More...

Would Predictable Recurring Revenue Benefit Your Practice Right Now?

If you’re like most dentists across America, your practice revenue and personal income have been greatly affected in the last month. Maybe you can’t pay your rent or mortgage and perhaps you’ve temporarily laid-off most or all your employees. We’re relying on the federal government to provide our small businesses with assistance and grants but we’re not sure when it’s coming. We all know that recessions happen and now we’re painfully aware that a virus can devastate our businesses. Independent […] Read More...

April 3rd COVID-19 Webinar Recap

Thank you for all that attended the webinar! If you missed the April 3rd webinar, please click on the link below to listen to the recorded webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/2521137687534916877 As mentioned during Friday’s webinar, this was the last one in the webinar series. Moving forward, we will send periodic updates via email. If you attended a webinar, you will automatically receive the emails. If you would like to sign-up for the mailing list, please go to: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/opdvIDS/COVID19  focused on HR questions. […] Read More...

COVID-19 PPE Recommendations

PPE & Safety Recommendations. There is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding sterilization, safety, and personal protective equipment requirements changes as a result of this pandemic. That said, we want to give those of you who are still seeing emergency patients some direction and recommendations. Please note that these are simply recommendations and do not constitute any official policy. Please reference the CDC, ADA, and other organizations as official policies are established. Firstly, the CDC has a great webpage that […] Read More...

Thursday, April 2nd COVID-19 TEAM Webinar

Thank you for all that attended the webinar! If you missed the April 2nd webinar, please click on the link below to listen to the recorded webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/7392779041072899329 As mentioned during today’s webinar, this was the last team webinar. If you still have unanswered HR questions, please send them to [email protected]. If you have general questions, please send them to [email protected]. We will be transitioning to a periodic newsletter. If you registered for the webinar, then you are on our […] Read More...
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