How to be a Home Health Agency Administrator with Russel Porras

<p><strong>How to be a Home Health Agency Administrator with Russell Porras</strong></p> <p>You want to know how to start your own home health agency business?</p> <p>Russell talks about his humble beginning as a PT and later on found out that he wanted more than being on a 9-5 job. He and his wife ventured out and started building their first business – a home health agency.</p> <p><em><strong>In this episode:</strong></em><em><br> </em>03:40 – QOTD “The only way to do great work is to Love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, Keep looking. Don’t Settle.” – Steve Jobs<br> 06:05 – Introduction of Russell Porras (owner and president of Care First Rehab.)<br> 09:00 – Russell talks more about what he does and Care First Rehab.<br> 11:20 – Russell shares his PT journey.<br> 13:00 – What prompted Russell to start his own business?<br> 15:30 – What is the process to start your own health agency?<br> 20:40 – Is there any special skills to start your own home health agency business?<br> 22:25 – Russell talks about his own outpatient clinic.<br> 26:20 – How did he market his home health agency business?<br> 29:10 – The A.S.K. method.<br> 30:20 – Russell’s Home Health Caregivers.<br> 38:30 – What was his biggest challenge and failure and how did he turn this around?<br> 46:55 – Care First Rehab will be starting their own Podcast focusing on PT and OT.<br> 48:00 – Talk to other people, learn from them, seek for opportunities and take action.<br> 53:00 – Always remember the word <em>FAST</em>.</p> <p>Please visit <a href="http://www.carefirstrehab.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"><u>www.carefirstrehab.com</u></a></p> <p>You can email Russell at <a href="mailto:russell@carefirstrehab.com" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"><u>russell@carefirstrehab.com</u></a></p> <p>Come and Join us! Use the code “ACG” <a href="http://www.drmikechua.com/ADDC" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"><u>www.DrMikeChua.com/ADDC</u></a></p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/althealthcareers/message