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Podcast: Curus Solutions for Companies in a COVID-19 Era – hosted by Mike Embry

Jul 28, 2020

We are releasing a series of podcasts with Industry leaders answering your questions in the age of COVID-19 about Curus, Healthcare, Benefit Solutions for Self-insured, and Human Resource strategies.  Q&A with our CEO, Mark Schlussel, hosted by Mike Embry, a leader in the United Benefits Association, president of National Association of Health Underwriters from 2017-2019, former Managing Director of Comerica Insurance Group, and founder and president of his own firm Comprehensive Benefits, Inc.  Make sure you check you are subscribed to the blog and you can get notifications of future podcasts by following us on Soundcloud: Curus Healthcare.

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Filed Under: concierge healthcare, Corporate Benefits, Curus, Health Management, healthcare quality, patient satisfaction

Podcast: Curus history – hosted by Mike Embry

Jul 27, 2020

We are releasing a series of podcasts with Industry leaders answering your questions in the age of COVID-19 about Curus, Healthcare, Benefit Solutions for Self-insured, and Human Resource strategies.  This 5 minute discussion with our CEO, Mark Schlussel is hosted by Mike Embry, a leader in the United Benefits Association, president of National Association of Health Underwriters from 2017-2019, former Managing Director of Comerica Insurance Group, and founder and president of his own firm Comprehensive Benefits, Inc.  Each week you can look forward to a discussion with Curus and thought leaders such as Doug Roehm of Strategic Services Group, Brent Matthews of TrueNorth Companies, Jeff...

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Filed Under: concierge healthcare, Corporate Benefits, Curus, Health Management, healthcare quality, patient satisfaction

A Healthcare Tidal Wave

Jul 20, 2020

As we continue to experience the tragic loss of life from COVID-19, the question being asked is what will be the new normal in healthcare post-pandemic. How do we plan for this new normal? When will it stabilize and become predictable? Will it stabilize at all? We are in the early stages of a tidal wave that is going to irreversibly reorder the process of care delivery. The new normal is really going to become the regular balance of profound instability. One example seen in the midst of this pandemic is large hospital systems laying off thousands of healthcare workers....

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Filed Under: changes in healthcare, concierge healthcare, covid-19, healthcare quality, hospitals, telehealth

Conductors Bring Harmony to Healthcare

Jun 9, 2020

Since the onset of COVID-19 at the beginning of this year, with an extraordinarily tragic loss of over 100,000 lives, we are seeing new trends in healthcare delivery rapidly emerging. The most talked about change has been the increased development of telehealth as a method of communication between healthcare provider and patient. From medical journals to newspaper articles, we are seeing a growing discussion of the limitless possibilities for using telecommunications as the primary access point to healthcare services. Having personally experienced two telehealth visits during this phase of our stay-at-home order, I approached these two contacts, one with my...

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Filed Under: concierge healthcare, Health Management, healthcare quality, telehealth

Human Resources: A CEO’s Key Leadership Partner During COVID-19

Apr 27, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world to a degree that has not happened in over 100 years, every organization from global corporations to small local businesses to independent ‘gig economy’ contractors became embroiled in a new reality of shutdowns, social distancing, economic uncertainty and remote work. Perhaps no business leader has been more critical to preparedness and ongoing operations than Human Resources (HR) professionals.  During a crisis like this, HR is to business as nurses are to a hospital: the first responders stabilizing the situation, coordinating continued care, taking the steps necessary to minimize damage and ensuring a...

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Filed Under: coronavirus, corporate wellness, CoV, covid-19, HR, human resources, mental status affects health, novel coronavirus