Operating
- Solutions
- Targeted Marketing
- Satisfaction Research
- Operations Audit
- Club Revival
- Contract Management
- Healthplex Opening
Solutions
Over the course of more than twenty years, the team at Healthplex Associates has developed the industry’s leading group of experts and resources to provide support for any aspect of medical fitness. Whether it’s determining the feasibility of a new center, planning, equipping, operating or improving the operations of an existing center, HPA has the answers. Just click the tabs below to learn more!
Targeted Marketing
It´s important to remember that the focus of wellness center marketing is reaching and motivating people. Marketing a wellness center is quite different from marketing a hospital. Hospital marketing is aimed at creating an image; getting people to have confidence that if they need health care, the advertising hospital is a great place to seek it. A wellness center that uses this “passive” approach is bound to fail. Retail marketing requires some spur, a “call to action” that motivates people to actively seek the product or service. HPA knows wellness center marketing techniques and we have developed the expertise to design programs that work.
Design Marketing Strategies
with Your Target Market in Mind
A target market is people – people with common characteristics that set them apart as a group. Knowing as much as possible about the unique wants, needs and type of people in the market makes it possible to more precisely develop an effective strategy.HPA can help with identifying a target market to make strategies for designing, pricing, distributing, promoting, positioning, and improving your club and its services easier, more effective, and less costly.
Satisfaction Research
HPA’s Customer Survey for Medical Fitness Centers is specifically designed to identify issues and strategies that are “actionable” for our clients. Our unique survey tool, the first designed specifically for hospital-affiliated medical fitness centers, helps:
- Achieve the mission to improve community health status
- Maintain and improve the fitness center´s operational and service quality
HPA’s data base of over 13,000 respondents offers benchmark data that is critical to understanding and interpreting what center members are saying. Without our national standards, any survey is just raw data.
Easy, Inexpensive, Accurate and Customizable!
HPA’s core questions provide a comprehensive overview of operations and member perceptions. By allowing the capacity to easily add customize questions for particular needs we have the perfect survey for every client. This approach provides great flexibility and still keeps the cost low. HPA even guides the interpretation of the data from the survey to assure that a plan for improvements is created with confidence.
Meaningful Data
Most importantly, the data generated by the survey are meaningful because they’re contextual. As Healthplex® Associates continues to build a database of information from medical fitness centers nationwide, data are analyzed in comparison to other medical fitness centers, rather than commercial centers with differing missions.Satisfaction Research
In many cases, clients who are currently operating a medical wellness center may be seeking ways to improve operations, marketing, clinical integration and a host of other management functions. Healthplex Associates has a full team of experts with backgrounds in all of the functional aspects of wellness center management.
This means that we can provide support and advice for every area of the operating departments.
Audit Prescriptions
Many Hospitals find that the earnings from their hospital-affiliated medical fitness center have fallen short of expectations, or that the operation is not fulfilling its intended mission of service. Poor membership retention, difficulty attracting new members, and an inability to increase member revenue are just a few of the symptoms of a center that needs help. Fortunately, there is an answer.Healthplex® Associates’ Operational and Strategic Assessment for Medical Fitness Centers evaluates all aspects of a center’s operation – marketing, sales, day-to-day functions, reporting systems and output, and the competition. The result: HPA provides clear, actionable and practical recommendations supported by a detailed plan to meet our client’s bottom line. At a minimum, we will examine:
- Clinical programming – is the scope and extent of clinical programming meeting the needs of the hospital and its patients, are clinical revenue opportunities being maximized? Is there an effective system in place to encourage patients to use the wellness center and are statistical reports tracking this?
- Staffing, salary, and wage structure – are incentives being used effectively? Is there a proper pay-for-performance program?
- Retail operations (including equipment and equipment leasing) – are you optimizing your resources? Are non-clinical programs (baby-sitting, food services, etc.) adding value?
- Fee structures – are fees fair and reasonable? Are fees consistent with the product and the market?
- Do customer service levels, sales techniques, and operating policies and procedures support the right kind of operation?
Club Revival
There are many examples of health care organizations who have purchased and/or built a fitness club and are unhappy with the club’s physical characteristics. Healthplex® Associates specializes in helping those organizations renovate these facilities by acting as an experienced end-user, so that the dual concepts of medical integration and world class fitness facilities can be achieved. In some cases, it may not be physically possible to do the remodeling and it then becomes necessary to rebuild at a nearby site. In either case, Healthplex Associates has the team to guide the process and assure success.
Contract Management
Healthplex® Associates takes a truly different approach to management. Most healthcare systems which undertake a project of this nature can benefit from our support in designing the operation so that it fits the mission they want to provide. Many hospitals will want to manage and control their new center. This is understandable. However, operating a retail fitness enterprise is typically outside their comfort zone and management expertise. Often by the time the organization realizes that fact, they are deeply in unavoidable debt and service problems.
Healthplex® Associates has a proven, award-winning team that not only manages the fitness operation profitably, but, even more importantly, manages the center with the sensitivity and understanding required to assure that fitness and healthcare are truly integrated.
The principals of our firm have helped achieve groundbreaking innovations, and are constantly developing new ideas to refine and improve the “Caring for Health” model.
Healthplex Opening
Following construction, we are poised to serve the needs of our members. Healthplex® Associates works closely with hospital officials to manage a successful grand opening event, designed to launch the new service line and provide momentum. This important activity is guaranteed to stimulate additional demand among the general public.
The Healthplex is a unique combination of special medical services with a successful fitness center. Since the facilities are architecturally integrated, a Healthplex allows for many therapy milieus to be expanded within the fitness club.
It is precisely the integration between fitness and clinical/medical services that is the foundation of the Healthplex concept. The management, fitness and clinical staff from our current Healthplex facilities meet regularly to develop new and better ways to integrate services. Each facility offers unique programs and services, which are based on the healthcare needs of the community and the needs of our healthcare partners. At the foundation of what makes Healthplex different is our emphasis on designing fitness programs based on a clinical assessment of a client and the needs uncovered in that assessment. Healthplex has pioneered integrative services and we have moved from the fragmented, unrelated wellness offerings to a truly integrated system of health enhancement bringing together programs, services and expertise in medically based fitness and well-care. Our basic model, particularly in today’s healthcare reimbursement environment, is to transition from traditional healthcare services such as rehabilitation, to a safe, supervised and self-managed fitness program.