ON Chiropractic Winter 2016 | Page 8

FEATURE STORY/ 3 STEPS TO GENERATING REFERRALS It’s a cliché…and it’s true. In any business, finding the best place to connect with potential customers is crucial to building a client list. In fee-for-service health care, the same realities prevail. So where are the potential patients who would benefit from chiropractic but are not currently receiving that care? According to reliable data, approximately 750,000 to 1,500,000 million of them are sitting in family physicians’ offices in Ontario. That is equivalent to 50 to 100% of the existing chiropractic patient base, if Ontario’s historical chiropractic utilization figures remain constant. 8 WINTER 2016