Guest guest Posted January 2, 2001 Report Share Posted January 2, 2001 It is time for Rehab Management to become a little more FUNNER !! The Games of Rehab Management ***** New ****** Innovative ****** FUNNER? ********* I am pleased to introduce a new management and staff development resource for rehab managers: The Games of Rehab Management. We've created a new concept in staff education designed to provide you - the Rehab Manager - with tools to help you staff understand and value the business side of rehab. Let me take a minute to describe the concepts behind this innovative new product line. Here is the premise for The Games of Rehab Management: 1. Continuing Education dollars are dwindling - you need a quick, inexpensive way to continue to provide high quality educational experiences for all staff. 2. Pressures for high staff productivity and low down time are increasing. 3. With all the recent changes in our environment, staff skills in the business end of rehab are more important than ever. 4. Most staff clinicians are often put off or frustrated by the difficulty or hassles in learning about rehab business skills. 5. Like most people, your staff will enjoy a fun, interactive, playful learning environment - even on topics that only marginally interested them. If you like game shows, you'll love The Games of Rehab Management. We've taken all the most critical rehab business topics - from Coding to The Balanced Budget Act to PPS to Marketing to Risk Management and Outcomes - and created Jeopardy-like games that you can play with your staff at inservice time. You are the Emcee so you get to control the learning environment and the discussions on these critical topics. Make it a friendly competition within your staff and you'll all have a great time as you learn. That is why this is FUNNER ! So what is it really? Each of the Games of Rehab Management (we've planned over 100 different games) is a computer-based game created in a format very similar to what you've seen on TV for Jeopardy. Accompanying each game is a short article on the specific topic of the game that you can assign for your staff to review in preparation for " Game Day " . You hand out copies of the article to every staff member a couple days prior to the game. They read it and you are ready to play. Since the games run on a Windows-compatible computer that you probably already have in your clinic, you will be up and all set to play within minutes of receiving the game you choose. After you briefly introduce the concept and topic to the two teams of staff that you have set up (a script to do this is provided) you get right into the content of the game. The computer randomly picks the starting team. They select a category (or subtopic) related to the overall game topic from the choice of 5 categories in each game. A question is displayed on the screen, you read it to the staff ( or project it on a TV (with the optional computer/TV adaptor) and the first person to raise their hand or ring a bell (get one from the booths) gets to try to answer the question. If they get it correct, they receive points and get to pick the next question. Which ever team has the most points at the end of one or two 25 question rounds wins. Of course, there is the FINAL BONUS question to negotiate. If you want to offer prizes, GREAT - if not, that's great, too. In each game, questions vary in difficulty - some are even humorous and cute. You and your staff will have a great time playing. For you as the facilitator/emcee, you will be able to help your staff members grasp the tough concepts by adding any comments or additional information that you want. You have all the questions and answers in writing so you can feel comfortable even if you are not " the expert " on the topic of the game. The Authors We've enlisted some of the top rehab management experts to write each of the games so you don't have to know all the answers - you have a list of all the questions and answers with full references to support the correct (or reject the incorrect) response. The Games Here is the list of GAMES that are currently available: (All of these games are specific to Rehab Management and have been designed by and for Rehab Managers) The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 Game (Available now as Free Introduction) The Productivity Game The Home Care Game The Supervision Game The Managed Care Game The Marketing Game The Recruitment and Retention Game The JCAHO Game The CARF Game The Medicare Rehab Fee Schedule Game The Student Games of Rehab Management (14 parts for entry level students or new managers) Even more games will be available in the next few weeks. Custom games, specific to your setting, can also be developed for your special uses at the very reasonable cost of $149 per game. Each game comes on CD-ROM for easy use and will run on any Windows compatible computer. You won't believe how much fun something so valuable can be! I'd like you to consider using The Games of Rehab Management with your staff. As a member of PTManager list serv, we are offering you a free game - The Balance Budget Act Game - to get you started. This is the full real game, not a demo or partial game, we'll send it to you free with no strings attached. Try it, check it out, use it with your staff and I am sure you will want to make The Games of Rehab Management a regular part of your staff education efforts. Pricing If you decide to order other games (delivered via mail or email), the cost is only $49.95 plus $6.05 shipping and handling per game (The Student Games cost $199 for the set of 14 games and include our popular entry level managerial text - Managerial and Supervisory Skills for Physical Therapists, published by and Wilkins in 1998 and written by Nosse, Friberg and Kovacek). If you want to purchase a PC to TV converter so that you can show the games on the " big screen " they are available for $150.00 plus S/H. As with all our products and services, your satisfaction is guaranteed. If at any time, you are not satisfied, just return the products for a full refund (you pay the return postage). To request The Balanced Budget Game or order any of our other Games in this series, contact me by phone, fax, mail or email. It really is time for Rehab Management to become a little more FUNNER !! To Order: Email, call, fax or mail your order to: KovacekManagementServices, Inc. 20225 Danbury Lane Harper Woods, MI 48225 voice fax Orders@... R. Kovacek, MSA, PT Email Pkovacek@... 313 884-8920 Visit <www.PTManager.com> TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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