If your practice has multiple locations, you may be struggling to unify the separate offices and staffs.

Dr. Robert Gale Martin, founder of the multi-location Carolina Eye Associates, aims for standardization in his exam rooms to increase efficiency.

Every exam room at CEA has the same equipment located in the same place, so that any surgeon moving from center to center will be in familiar surroundings. Dr. Martin says not only does this reduce your cost of equipment due to quantity discounts, but it also increases physicians’ efficiency and productivity when they move from facility to facility.

He adds that anything you can do to unify the personnel so they’re not one doctor’s personnel but the personnel of the organization is a plus for the organization and all of the doctors.