The Meeker Minute
With Dr. Ron Meeker
Deepen Your Talent Pool and Improve Your Team
What sets your practice apart from the others in your area? It’s a question any successful business owner has to reckon with. No matter the aesthetics of...
Raise Your New Patient Percentage: Make New Patients Feel Truly Welcome
How does your practice rate when it comes to first impressions? If your new patient percentage is lower than you’d like, perhaps it’s time to take a...
What’s Your “Man Down” Plan?
Similar to penalty play in lacrosse or hockey, you need to have a strategy for dealing with being a team member short. Your staff members get sick from...
Can One Patient Really Be Worth $25k?
As health care providers, we are in a service industry. We also have a retail component to our business. As such, the patient experience is a...
How to Use the Psychology of Change to Improve Performance in Your Practice
The old saying “change is the only constant” seems to become more relevant every year. Whether so much change is considered good or bad is at least...
Four Free Things You Can Do to Reduce Staff Turnover
Ask 10 practice owners what they like least about their job and 9 of them will say something related to human resources. With an average staff...
Checking Out: The Perfect Ending Improves Collections Per Hour
Over the past four weeks, we've discussed almost every area of the practice, and how each person can directly impact one of my favorite KPIs, Collections...
Improving Your Collections Per Hour in the Optical
We've spent 3 weeks looking at different angles to improve Collections Per Hour - one of my top KPIs. So far, we've looked at how everyone in the practice...
Lead Your Team to Profitability by Improving Provider Efficiency
For the past 2 weeks, we've been discussing Collections Per Hour and how different members of your team can contribute to this critical KPI. In part 3...
Your Technicians Can Help Improve Collections Per Hour
Last week, we started a conversation about Collections Per Hour, often broken down into Collections Per OD Hour and Collections per Staff Hour, which is...
About The Meeker Minute
You can change your practice for the better – one minute at a time. While “big initiatives” are always important to consider, oftentimes the real change happens in small moments, just a minute or two, as you implement sustainable, healthy habits that improve your practice in manageable, bite-size increments.
The Meeker Minute is a collection of quick wins that anybody can put into play. Build a better team, serve your patients better, and enjoy better business performance – one minute at a time..
About Ron Meeker
Dr. Meeker has been in practice in his home town of Vestal, NY since 1985. He is a graduate of Colgate University and the University of California at Berkeley School of Optometry. He has been a Fellow of the American Academy since 1988 and was among the first group of optometrists to achieve Diplomate of the American Board of Optometry in 2011. Dr. Meeker was an early adopter of electronic health records, beginning in 1997.
After 35 years in active practice, Dr. Meeker is transitioning his legacy practice to a younger practitioner as he turns his attention to the next phase of his career. He looks forward to sharing his expertise with the eyeTHRIVE community, and assisting other practitioners in developing their best practices.
