Betsy is a highly accomplished and mission-driven healthcare leader, with diverse experience in hospital/physician relations, hospital operations and physician practice management.
She has demonstrated success in director roles at a nationally ranked academic medical center and excels in leading interdisciplinary teams in matrix environments to achieve strategic goals. Betsy’s consulting expertise includes physician marketing and referral development, medical staff development planning and physician/advanced practitioner recruitment. She is a creative thinker, recognized for incorporating both human and quantitative dimensions in problem-solving to drive exceptional results.
Recent Posts and Articles
Physician to Provider Recruitment – What’s Different About Recruiting Advanced Practitioners?
By: Betsy Finkelmeier, RN, MBA | bfinkelmeier@barlowmccarthy.com “If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” – unknown One of the more significant transitions in physician recruiting has been the incorporation of advanced...
Chronic Operational Issues Getting You Down? Get Creative!
By: Betsy Finkelmeier, RN, MBA "Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted." – George...
Taking on the Tough Operational Challenges
By: Betsy Finkelmeier, RN, MBA There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. -Colin Powell There is no question that health care organizations have becoming increasingly complex. System affiliations have...
The Pathway to Internal Buy-In: Disciplined Project Management
By: Betsy Finkelmeier, RN, MBA If...
Best Practice for Effective Referral Issue Management in 2015
By: Betsy Finekelmeier, RN, MBA Physician sales representatives spend significant time managing issues that threaten retention of their loyal customers. All too often, members of the...
What Physicians Want to Know: Considering Recruitment from the Physician’s Point of View
By: Betsy Finkelmeier, MBA and Debra Pickup, RN, MS Experienced physician...
Preparing for Effective Advanced Practitioner Recruitment
By: Betsy Finkelmeier, MBA Hospitals are hiring an increasing number of mid-level providers to fill the void created by strict guidelines governing resident work hours and an...
It’s About Outcomes, Productivity and the Bottom Line
By: Betsy Finkelmeier, RN, MBA Know your customer is a fundamental marketing principle and an essential element of...