Barlow/McCarthy Blog
Check back often to hear from our talented team of consultants. Topics covered include: Physician Relations, Physician Recruitment, Practice Marketing, Medical Staff Development, Community Health Needs Assessments, etc.
Why Leadership Coaching? Why Now?
By: Allison McCarthy, MBA | amccarthy@barlowmccarthy.com After more than 30 years of leading and consulting health systems, I saw an opportunity to help those in leadership roles develop further to become more successful. The path to enable that support led me to...
2021 Fall Webinar Series
Join us for one or all of these fast-paced sessions in our Fall Webinar series and come prepared with your questions and ideas. Please sign up for each individual webinar below to receive reminders and a calendar invite. If the webinar has already taken place you will...
Physician Relations: Referral Barriers and How to Move Beyond Them
By: Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA | kbarlow@barlowmccarthy.com Remember the time when you shared information about a service with a doctor and they loved your idea? It’s happened to most of us one or two times! More often, the path to a referral is not fast, easy nor...
Customizing Your Onboarding Program to Meet your Providers Needs
By: Mitzi Kent, RN, BSN | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com Have you ever listened to the person in line in front of you order their drink at Starbucks? Each order has a little extra this or a double shot of that. And, the barista then customizes the drink. What if we paused...
Focus Is Critical to Success but Often Difficult to Achieve
By: Susan Boydell | sboydell@barlowmccarthy.com One of the best practices in physician relations is focus. Focus on priority growth areas. Focus in the field. Focus on the right target physicians. It makes sense, right? But, I bet if most of us did a quick...
What Does Your Organization Need?
By: Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA | kbarlow@barlowmccarthy.com September reminds me of back to school. School teaches us many things relevant for our roles today – like making sure we do good research and testing our effectiveness alongside others. In that spirit, as we...
Is Your Recruitment Team Ready for Prime Time?
By: Mitzi Kent, RN, BSN | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com Like many of you, I was glued to my TV watching the US women’s gymnastics team compete on the largest stage in sports. I was amazed with their strength, resilience, and dedication to the sport. With every decision,...
The Value of Dedicated Planning Time
By: Susan Boydell | sboydell@barlowmccarthy.com Last week the Barlow/McCarthy team held a retreat. Like we’ve heard from so many field teams, it was just great to see each other in person again. But what was really great was the brainpower and discussion about the...
Physician Recruitment: Active Sourcing Leads to Success
By: Tony Barlow | tbarlow@barlowmccarthy.com We all know in the recruitment world there are those dream candidates who land in your lap. Yes, there may be some searches that seem to move along fairly easily. But, more often than not, finding quality candidates for...
Physician Relations: Leveraging Your Existing Referral Sources
By: Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA | kbarlow@barlowmccarthy.com Most liaisons are far more comfortable working with existing practices than cold calling those who have never referred. And let’s face it, in some geographies, new prospects are slim pickings. Existing practices...