Mitzi brings enthusiasm and expertise in cultivating creative strategies in the hospital, ambulatory and post-acute settings that produce exceptional business growth and outstanding physician loyalty.
Mitzi offers more than 25 years of progressive healthcare experience working with Fortune 500 companies such as HCA, Gentiva and LifePoint Health, and has demonstrated business development success in both urban and rural markets.
She is an energetic and creative leader who has a proven record of accomplishment in building and motivating teams as well as cultivating profitable strategies for long-term success. She is noted for her ability to effectively work with hospital management teams and corporate leaders.
Mitzi’s keen focus on tactical growth and business alignment is a tremendous asset to aid in the advancement of organizational goals. Her extensive management experience in guiding fast-paced operations with exemplary leadership and problem solving skills has consistently resulted in profitable, long-term success.
Mitzi focuses on physician relations, recruitment, new provider onboarding and medical staff planning, applying her expertise in developing strategy, assessments and plans that achieve outstanding business growth, physician loyalty and an exceptional patient experience.
Mitzi, a resident of Nashville TN, earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of South Carolina.
Recent Posts and Articles
Medical Staff Development Planning: Beyond Just Supply & Demand
By: Mitzi Kent, RN, BSN | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com Over the last 25 years, the community needs assessment has been at the core of the medical staff development plan for health systems. But, the days of defining recruitment needs based solely on a particular...
Look to Enhance Your Recruitment Team for Success
By: Mitzi Kent, RN, BSN | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com As leaders in recruitment, we've all experienced challenges motivating our provider recruitment teams. The struggle is real, and with the physician shortage and provider needs post-pandemic, we need to think about...
New Tactics to Get Your Recruitment Team on Track
By: Mitzi Kent, RN, MBA | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com Whether it is the lingering effects of pandemic virtual work or other stressors within your team, the resulting uncertainty can impact your recruitment team's motivation at work. You may see some of your star team...
5 New Year’s Recruitment Resolutions to Start Your Year Off with a Bang
By: Mitzi Kent, RN, BSN | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com If you are like me, you have already started that "list" you know which one I am talking about—the obligatory New Year's resolution list. Many of you are likely creating personal resolutions, for me those are often...
Reimaging Recruitment Relationships with Key Stakeholders
By: Mitzi Kent, RN, BSN | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com Recently I had the great fortune of speaking to a recruitment team in Indiana. This was the first time the team had gotten together in person since the pandemic, and the energy in the room was noticeable. Our goal was...
Physician Recruitment: Listening to Your Intuition
By: Mitzi Kent, RN, BSN | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com You know that feeling of uneasiness when something is off or that “tugging” feeling when something doesn’t feel “quite right.” It’s subtle and doesn’t scream for attention, which is why some of us will miss it if we...
When the Seasons Change, So Should Your Recruitment Tactics
By: Mitzi Kent, RN, BSN | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com When record temperatures hit during the summer, everyone wants to shift gears, slow down, and take a break. In physician recruitment, this is the optimal time to look at where we might find additional candidates....
Customized Onboarding is Not Just for Providers; Your Team Needs That, Too!
By: Mitzi Kent, RN, BSN | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com Developing an effective onboarding plan for your recruitment team is just as important as having an efficient plan for providers. Well-trained recruiters are better listeners and deliver more succinct and accurate...
What is Your Organization’s Story Telling New Recruits?
What does your organizational story tell physician recruits? If you were to research and describe its history, would that communicate in a more interesting way the current mission and vision?
Key Tactics to Close Your Recruitment Gap and Finish the Year Strong
By: Mitzi Kent, RN, BSN | mkent@barlowmccarthy.com When everything is pumpkin spice and sweater weather it means it’s that time of year when we all suddenly realize a need to have an accelerate focus and make the most of the time we have before the year ends. This is...