“What motivates me is forming close, working relationships with clients. When we’re working together in partnership and they achieve the results they want— it doesn’t get any better than that.”
Allison’s true passion is working side-by-side with physician leaders and their administrative partners to support leadership growth and development. She blends her coaching expertise with a wealth of hands-on experience leading physician strategy efforts within several healthcare organizations including practice management, physician and staff recruitment, new practice development, and provider retention.
Recent Posts and Articles
Learning from Others to Strengthen Onboarding
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA Project management is a widely accepted profession in industries such as IT, government, construction and engineering, etc…. You can even get a degree in project management from some highly reputable colleges and universities. Like a lot of...
Onboarding: The Engagement Tool for New Physician Recruits
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA Recent client work has enabled us to gather feedback from new physician recruits about their experience entering their hiring organization. Based on what we’ve heard, we have some work to do to ensure we have them become fully engaged....
What is Your Recruitment Story
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA This summer was about family. My husband and I hosted the bi-annual reunion of my mother’s extended family here in Plymouth. While we rotate the “host” site, it seemed most fitting this year given our ancestors who were a part of the...
Good Use of Time when Recruiting Physicians
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA With so many searches and so little time, devoting time to long-range recruitment efforts may not seem like it makes sense. How could it when the organization is pressing you to fill immediate needs. But just a small amount of your current...
Taking Hospital Leaders to Your Physician Visit
by Allison McCarthy, MBA There is one truth that stands above the fray; those who plan get the best results. Planning physician relations visits in advance, particularly when they involve non-physician relations staff, provides the preparation necessary to achieve...
Ensuring Physician Relations Gets the Credit
By Allison McCarthy, MBA Effectively measuring ROI on physician sales and retention activities requires two key elements - quantitative data and qualitative data. While producing the quantitative data has its own set of challenges, qualitative data trending and...
The Silver Bullet in Physician Relations Tracking – Part One: Creating the Right Team
By Allison McCarthy, MBA Establishing a physician relations tracking system is much more than selecting the right product. In fact, that’s actually a small part of the effort. Those who have successfully selected and implemented systems took an inside-out versus...
The Silver Bullet in Physician Relations Tracking – Part Two: It’s All About the Process
Author: Allison McCarthy, MBA Most organizations begin efforts to implement a physician relations tracking system by first selecting the software. The unfortunate outcome is often that the organization quickly outgrows the selected software as it fulfills the...
Developing the Right Mix for Successful Recruitment
Author: Allison McCarthy, MBA Originally published in the July 2003 issue of SHSMD E-CONNECT, the author updated the content in March 2009 to reflect the increasingly competitive recruitment environment. In today's marketplace, recruiting qualified candidates means...
Engaging the Medical Staff as Part of the Physician Recruitment Team
by Allison McCarthy, MBA There is no better “messenger” of our physician recruitment pitch than a member of the medical staff. But they can also be our greatest challenge. We can spend as much time managing medical staff angst as we do prospecting for candidates. Is...