The Three Vitals: The 3-Minute Check
Your beds are filled. The money came in. So why is there nothing left for you, and why is your phone still ringing at 5 a.m.?
Nine questions. About three minutes. Find out which part of your group home is quietly costing you the most.
Free. Nine questions. Results right away.
Take your vitals.
Nine questions. Answer from memory. Your results show up the second you finish.
A nurse takes vitals before she treats anything. Your business works the same way.
Census
Is your house full because you have a pipeline, or because you got lucky with one or two people?
Money
Is every bed paying for itself, or are you losing money on beds you thought were fine?
Systems
When you step away, do things get done, or do things get missed?
You answer from memory. No paperwork and no calculator. Each vital gets a color.
Plus one 5-minute fix for each vital that you can do tonight.
- A bed has been sitting empty and you're waiting on the same one or two people to send you somebody.
- The home is full and there's still nothing left for you at the end of the month.
- You wrote the procedures and trained the staff, and steps still get missed.
- You can't remember your last real day off.
None of those are the problem. They're symptoms. This check shows you what's underneath them.
Your business isn't broken. It's untreated.
Chiriga O.
Registered nurse and group home operator
Chiriga started with three clients in her living room and grew to 29 residents across four locations. She built this check from the same three numbers she reads in her own homes. [Chiriga to confirm the numbers.]