Fall 2004

Your CHG Newsletter has arrived! Here's what you will find in this issue:

Making an Effective Match
Physician Relations Book Discusses Steps for Creating, Growing Your Program
Share Your Expectations & Your Culture to Make the Best Hiring Decisions
Putting Out the Welcome Mat for Physicians
Administrator Notes Keys for Finding and Hiring Practice Physicians
Software Systems Maximize Recruitment Process
What’s Hot, What’s Working: Trends in Compensation

Carolyn Merriman

Making an Effective Match

Success in marriage, it’s said, is much more than finding the right person—it’s a matter of being the right person. And so it is with putting together a good team. You can look for the perfect candidate, but that on its own isn’t enough. You also have to examine your organization from the inside out and determine if what you have to offer is a good match for your candidate. 

This issue of our newsletter examines several aspects of recruitment, including the importance of presenting your culture effectively to a prospective hire. Read Catherine Baumgardner’s advice for sharing your expectations and corporate culture up front with interviewees. Kriss Barlow offers a look at how to create a new physician transition strategy—and, in so doing, increase the longevity of a physician in your organization. We also profile a physician practice administrator who’s helped to substantially grow a Pennsylvania practice in the past year. And we also cover the latest in recruiting software and compensation trends. 

Have you found effective ways to “wed” the right balance of who you are and who you’re hiring? Share your story with us: Send us a note at www.corporatehealthgroup.com. Or feel free to call us for ideas on how to re-align your current process.

Regards, 

Carolyn Merriman, President



Carolyn Merriman

Physician Relations Book Discusses Steps for Creating, Growing Your Program
Now Available!

It’s official: Physician Relations Today: A Model for Growth, a new book by Carolyn Merriman and Kriss Barlow has been published. This publication covers the steps involved in bringing a physician relations: from inception to implementation to evaluation—and offers many ideas for finding success along the way.

Order your copy today! Cost is only $39.00 plus shipping. And now through September 30, 2004, you can take $5.00 off the published price. Simply write EMAIL SPECIAL on your order form.

We look forward to your feedback and hearing of your own program experiences. Let us know your thoughts and what you’d like to see in a subsequent book. 

 

Share Your Expectations & Your Culture to Make the Best Hiring Decisions
By Catherine Baumgardner, CHG Associate

Have you ever hired someone for a job only to find that someone who looks the same, but seems like a different person, shows up? You thought you asked all of the right questions during the interview process. But now the person in front of you doesn’t seem to fit with your team or your organization.

Organizations today are so eager to fill positions in a scarce labor market that they forget there are certain attributes the candidate must possess in order to be hired. Today, there can be so much pressure from overworked teams to hire someone that they have a tendency to hire the first warm body that comes in the door. >> Read Full Article

 

 

Putting Out the Welcome Mat for Physicians
By Kriss Barlow, CHG Senior Consultant

Much has been written about the need in healthcare to enhance access to our resources and, frankly, simply to acknowledge when patients, families and their visitors are in our facilities. In some organizations, there’s an equal amount of energy being spent on relationships with our co-workers. What are you doing to create a welcoming environment for new physicians? >> Read Full Article

 

 
 

Administrator Notes Keys for Finding and Hiring Practice Physicians

The Erie (PA) Physicians Network is enjoying robust growth of its physician team, in large part because its members are continually looking for good talent. In the past year, it has added eight physicians to its 21-doctor group and has recently contracted with the CHG recruitment team to help source candidates for a GI position. >> Read Full Article

 

Software Systems Maximize Recruitment Process
By Allison McCarthy, CHG Managing Consultant

Whether you manage your own in-house recruiting effort, or rely on outside agencies for all or part of this key organizational endeavor, you need a sound tracking system to keep the recruitment process organized, focused and successful. A physician recruitment tracking system not only is a cost-effective and efficient way to juggle reams of information, but also an indispensable tool for creating your own internal database should your recruitment initiatives continue from year to year. >> Read Full Article

 

 

 

What’s Hot, What’s Working: Trends in Compensation
By Carolyn Merriman, CHG President

Compensation has been a hot topic this year among our clients. We thought it might be time to provide all of you with some updates, tips and best practices.>> Read Full Article

 

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