Don’t Let Data Be a Barrier. Make It Work!

By: Susan Boydell If you engage your service line leaders in your ability to grow their business and make them look good, they will often be very supportive. Ask any liaison or their manager what frustrates them and the word “data” is usually somewhere in their...

The Marketing Leader in Transformation Times

By: Jeff Cowart, MAH Marketing leaders today need to hone their own skills in ways to creatively connect with real people. Most seasoned hospital and healthcare marketers today were bred in a world where product marketing was the gold standard, and metrics were based...

Physician Recruiter: Make your Work a “Happy” Place

By: Allison McCarthy, MBA “If you have two good friends at work, you’re almost guaranteed to like your job.” -Tom Rath, author, Vital Friends This year’s Association of Staff Physician Recruiters conference in August confirmed the notion that physician recruiters are...

Is Medical Staff Development Planning Still Relevant?

By: Allison McCarthy, MBA “If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free Traditionally, the purpose of medical staff development planning was to define where not-for-profit...