![]() The best ideas come when you think you have limited options. What else would you like to share with the community?īe strong, be resilient. make your own PPE with bandanas or cloth or so that people in high occupational health exposure areas can get their needed supplies to continue helping people. If we can remind the community that these are needed for the medical providers in high-risk areas. ![]() Dental distributors are limiting offices to about 50 masks per month. Acquiring the needed masks to perform our clinical procedures has become even more difficult since the whole world decided everyone needs to wear an N95 mask to walk down the street by themselves. It is difficult enough to maintain the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to do our jobs with the upscaled precautions. The second thing we need is coming from the health care community. We need our patients and people to be brave, be safe, and return so that businesses can come back to life. All of our businesses are challenged by following safety guidelines recommended by the CDC. All businesses understand the rules have changed and that we are limited by wearing masks and social distancing, but at the same time, our economy relies on the people getting back to work to continue to be prosperous again. The community needs to understand that if they would like to see small businesses continue, they need to start reintegrating themselves into society and get back to work in one form or another. The two most important things for small business success during the current challenging times, is firstly the local economy needs to be more active again. ![]() What do you or your business need most to succeed? It was quite amazing how a horrible event like the pandemic was overcome by the community caring for each other and small business taking care of small businesses. It was beautiful to see businesses give up their own self-interests to help support each other. We were able to keep healthy patients away from COVID-19 dense areas like emergency rooms and hospitals while treating their emergencies. With patients provided from the Toothzone Network a small local dental corporation and PPE (personal protective equipment) provided from Miramont Family Medicine, our clinic was able to stay in the fight and provide much-needed care for dental emergencies. To date, the experience with COVID-19 has really opened our eyes to how world events helped bring Northern Colorado small businesses/communities together even when we are social distancing. What has resonated with you most through your community (or employee) giving? With PPE provided from Miramont Family Medicine whom we share a building with, we were able to provide a safe place for patients to be treated and employees to be kept safe while treating patients. Between our patient population and their emergencies, we were able to maintain the office open. Our corporate employer continued to provide our office patients during the first 6 weeks of COVID-19 to treat all their emergencies. Fortunately, our providers had a unique skill set that was able to treat most dental emergencies to include complicated root canals and difficult extractions. We took this as an opportunity to start putting full-time effort into our new business, Radiant Dental Health. COVID-19 made us pivot away from our corporate dental jobs, where we were full-time employees as the corporation struggled with seeing any patients as a possible liability at this time. Where it really affected us was with our other fulltime job. As a new dental office, we were scraping by and had just hired our first employee to help with a possible new expansion when COVID-19 became a significant problem. Thankfully our business model did not have to change drastically as we were already running a lean business with little overhead. How have you been able to pivot or change your business model? Be sure to follow Radiant Dental Health on Facebook.
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