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How to run a morning huddle your staff won't skip: A 15-minute framework
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A family physician and practice owner shares the structure, roles and timing that make her team's 15-minute morning huddle work, and how to adapt it to a practice of any size.
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Practice managers know the pattern: A patient is already in the exam room when someone realizes a lab wasn't ordered, a balance wasn't collected or a screening was missed.
Then the questions start, the schedule slides and the workday slips away — or gets even busier and longer.
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