A Marketing Approach To Physician Recruitment

A Marketing Approach to Physician Recruitment is a how-to manual designed to assist hospitals in the physician recruitment process, or to enhance already existing recruitment programs. Given the ever-changing status on health care reform, hospital administrators and physicians are faced with the challenge of meeting the growing needs of patients, as well as their own internal priorities. In order to survive, the medical profession as a whole must make the commitment to identify the needs of the community it serves, while integrating the activities and roles of departments, boards and staff. In the past, physician recruitment has tended to itself. As part of a competitive system, neither the individual provider nor the medical group can afford to ignore its physician profile. This book is aware of the needs of today's hospitals and presents a program to facilitate the process of recruiting physicians. The authors provide the reader with a step-by-step physician recruiting process. They include additional materials to support the recruiting process. The book is comprised of four sections. The process section provides organization for the recruitment program by assisting readers with creating a written plan. The resources section facilitates that plan's effectiveness by providing information for developing pro forms, community support, letters, tracking forms, incentive packages, and legal documents. The reference section lists organizations, contact names, addresses, and phone numbers needed for recruiting. A Marketing Approach to Physician Recruitment is the only book of its kind. Hospitals can use it to develop a practical and proven process for recruiting physicians. It is an effective tool for meeting the needs of patients and physicians alike.

This groundbreaking volume explores every facet of marketing for hospitals. Experienced practitioners and marketing educators show you how to improve your current program with tips and insights that would normally take years to acquire!

Position your physician sales program for maximum growth There's no question that physician referrals are mission-critical to your hospital or health system's bottom line. But increasing or maintaining referrals requires more than just an occasional visit to the practice. A successful physician sales program must promote quality and solidify your hospital as the hospital of choice for their patients. Kriss Barlow gives you the keys to successful physician sales! Take your physician relations program to the next level with A Marketer's Guide to Physician Relations: Best Practices for Successful Sales Programs. HealthLeaders Media has teamed up with healthcare marketing superstar Kriss Barlow to bring you this new, must-read guide for developing, positioning, and enhancing your physician sales program. Real-world advice and examples from your peers Packed with real-world examples and healthcare-specific advice, this comprehensive resource offers more than 250 pages of content that will help physician sales leaders: Create and sustain focus and build on momentum Identify and hire the best salespeople Build internal support for the program Differentiate your organization from the competition Measure the ROI of your efforts Increase bottom-line referral revenue Backed by years of in-the-field experience, Barlow offers numerous tips and examples from your healthcare peers who have implemented successful physician sales programs, and are reaping the rewards. The eight best practices you need for success Take a look at the detailed, focused information you'll find in the pages of A Marketer's Guide to Physician Relations: Best Practice Attribute # 1: Focus Best Practice Attribute #2: Senior Leadership Involvement Best Practice Attribute #3: Capable Staff Best Practice Attribute # 4: Ability to Measure Outcomes Best Practice Attribute #5: Momentum Best Practice Attribute # 6: Planned Integration Best Practice Attribute# 7: A Physician-Centric Culture Best Practice Attribute# 8: Ability to Differentiate Put these proven techniques and strategies in place at your hospital to increase referrals, revenue, and your overall market share. Order your copy of A Marketer's Guide to Physician Relations today! Who needs this book? Healthcare professionals in charge of physician relations and sales and anyone in the organization charged with growing programs will benefit from this valuable knowledge. Specific titles include: Director or VP of physician relations/physician outreach/physician sales Director or VP of marketing, communications, and public relations Director or VP of business development/business relations Director or VP of strategic planning and marketing Service line directors and C-suite leaders

A practical guide for providers and administrators in the health industry, this stimulating volume explains how to effectively use a variety of marketing practices such as advertising, public relations, fund raising, and “word of mouth” from satisfied clients.

Physician Recruitment and Employment: A Complete Reference Guide is a comprehensive orientation and instruction manual for physician recruitment and employment policies and contracts. An invaluable resource for hospitals and health care providers who have questions about the far-reaching government regulations pertaining to physician recruitment, this book will help readers avoid potential pitfalls and help ensure legal compliance.In a world where the regulations regarding physician recruitment are vague and often contradictory, Physician Recruitment and Employment: A Complete Reference Guide will help you stay on top of ever-changing guidelines.Comes with Free CD-ROM!

Environmental Marketing: Strategies, Practice, Theory, and Research is a timely resource for the 1990s. It examines a broad range of issues that affect environmental behavior while providing materials and guidance to marketing decisionmakers. It will guide your organization toward a decidedly “green” marketing movement, toward marketing concepts and tools that not only serve your organization's objectives but preserve and protect the environment as well.Environmental Marketing clearly defines the potential roles of organizations, consumers, and governments and examines how these groups impact environmental factors through the marketing process. The book helps you understand alternative perspectives to green marketing issues and, in turn, enables you to make clearer, more conscious decisions toward improving your environmental marketing performance.This resourceful text begins by defining the concept of environmental or “green” marketing and how the idea of a healthy planet and successful marketing strategies can co-exist. It discusses the consumer's behavior toward environmental products and how marketers can effectively educate them, the guidelines involved in doing so, and the consequences of failing to do so. The marketer's position on environmental changes in industry is examined along with alternatives for striking a balance between marketing objectives and environmental concerns. Finally, the book discusses the global response to environmental marketing and where multi-national organizations belong within this balance.Environmental Marketing is a book for all managers involved in decisions impacting the environment. It is also of great interest to public policymakers and academics who wish for quick insight into environmental marketing issues.

Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment is a how-to book designed for the marketing practitioner. It provides detailed information on how to prepare and implement a marketing plan based in a total quality environment.For the last twenty years, the authors, as marketing practitioners and educators, have been deeply involved in the planning processes of many corporations. This book, Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment, is the product of what they've learned over the years from working with these diverse corporations and their executives. The authors provide readers with each step in the total quality planning process, complete with check sheets and plan formats. After readers finish the book, they can prepare a quality-driven marketing plan that will be used and followed throughout the year--instead of becoming a shelf item.This book is for you and the many other marketing professionals who are faced with one or more of these situations: You're doing a good job, but you'd like to do even better. You're spending valuable time putting out fires. You lack time to do the things that need to be done. You're always having a hard time coordinating major marketing programs. You're faced with a major discrepancy between where you are and where you'd like to be; you've got a planning gap. You realize that you've got to offer your customers more quality if you're going to be competitive in the new market environment. You'd like to have a professional annual marketing plan--one that will be well received by management and will also keep you and your staff focused throughout the year. Because each step on how to develop a marketing plan is covered, Marketing Planning in a Total Quality Environment is ideal for presidents of smaller firms, marketing directors and planners, product managers, and planning specialists. The authors include a sample fact book which can be used to store and analyze data, planning forms which help convert data into information, and marketing plan formats which ensure that the plan will get used.

In today's business world, competence is no longer enough in an employee;competent employees are merely a starting point. Internal Marketing: Your Company's Next Stage of Growth details how you can improve employee effectiveness and therefore business—by marketing your firm to employees so they can more effectively serve outside customers and consumers. Employees need to be knowledgeable about their firm and confident in it and its products and services in order to perform their duties in an optimal manner. From this book, you will gain a thorough knowledge and understanding of the concept of internal marketing, how it can be implemented, and the benefits that will result.