The fee includes a menu of services and activities rivaling the Hallmark's, and if the place is a bit more institutional in feel (textured wallpaper, easy-care carpets), it also has its charms, including a gorgeous rooftop solarium with a panoramic view of the city.
Babysitting coops transform childcare from a one-to-one transaction to a many-to-many transaction, making it easy for families to find and coordinate the highest-quality care.
One clever idea is to borrow tactics from retail chains like McDonald's and Subway--operate an easy-to-replicate, owner-operated franchise system focusing on health care.
It will have 270 beds - including 48 for critical care - with most rooms including views of the park and all with easy access to play areas.
Transparent and easy-to-understand models are growing in primary care as well.
The easy choice here is the Vanguard Health Care Fund, a no-load with low expenses and a superb performance record: 16% a year since inception in 1984.
While Medicaid does pay for nursing home care, getting into a high-quality facility is not easy.
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Neither of them exactly spoils its families with financial inducements or state-provided child care, but their flexible labour markets make it easy for women to get back into work after childbirth, and public opinion approves of working mothers.
Eileen Chubb, who campaigns against abuse in care homes for the elderly, says it is too easy for employers to arm-twist whistleblowers into settlements and keep the most sordid details private.
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Backup child care is a fast-growing employee benefits program -- and it's easy to see why.
But Peter Kongstvedt, a managed-care expert at Ernst and Young, a consultancy, warns that this is far from easy money.
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