“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
Getting Your Internal Team In-Sync
By Allison McCarthy, MBA Many called them cursed. The Boston Red Sox hadn’t won a World Series for 86 years. But the 2004 team finally did it. That season, it wasn’t about a single player providing the edge. It was the synchronization of all the players that delivered...
Senior Leaders Contribution to Recruitment Success
Author: Allison McCarthy, MBA If you're recruiting physicians to your organization, then you probably feel challenged daily by internal disconnects that hinder your progress. More than likely you deal with one or more of them daily. And for many of these issues, you...
The Right Fit: Plan to Recruit the Right Physicians
Authors: Kriss Barlow and Allison McCarthy While the specifics and the specialty may change, messages like this are being heard and felt by many organizations. Physician recruitment is becoming a central challenge for healthcare experts, and the issue is affecting...
Comparing In-House Recruitment to External Firms: Is It Really About Money?
By Allison McCarthy, MBA The physician recruitment community has long made the argument that the advantage of in-house functions over search firms is one of cost. In fact, a recent HealthLeader’s Media article shared “Adding a full time employee to manage the process...
Differentiation: Competitive Differentiators in Recruitment
By Ann Maloley, MBA Competitive differentiators – it’s not a new concept in the world of marketing and brand positioning. But the rule also applies – and has never been more critical – to the world of physician recruitment. Just as marketers strive to communicate to...
Getting Impact with Leadership
By Allison McCarthy, MBA Market knowledge is a key weapon to capture senior leader’s attention for physician recruitment. While everyone agrees that leadership involvement is a necessity for supporting well-defined search priorities, medical staff buy-in, adequate...
Home for the Holidays: Recruitment Strategies that Work
By Allison McCarthy, MBA Some see it as an opportunity to slow down while a few might see it as a good time to recruit. But given all our prospecting messages around “returning to your roots,” this may be the best time of year to tug at those heartstrings. The...
No Prospects – No Recruits
By Allison McCarthy, MBA When you consider how many leads it can take to land a recruit, you realize how critical prospecting is to physician recruitment success. Today’s contracted doctor may have been: 1 of 5 site visits conducted 1 of a dozen or so telephone...
Position Your Practice At Maximum Recruitment Potential
By Allison McCarthy, MBA It’s often the little things that make a difference in physician recruitment. As we grow in experience, we must advance our expertise beyond the mechanics to master the strategic, creative and evaluative nuances that provide depth to our...
Recruitment Sourcing Planning – Worth the Time Investment
by Allison McCarthy, Principal As recruiters, we have a natural tendency to jump into action as soon as we receive a search request. While hired for our “can do” spirit, that tendency at times needs to be tamed in order to think and plan. To ensure we are spending the...