Physician Relationships Take a Team Effort
Creating a positive culture where hospitals and physicians work together is no easy task. That’s why so many organizations turn to Barlow/McCarthy for our insightful and practical advice in physician relationships. We succeed because we listen and work systematically through hospital/physician challenges. We do the careful and detailed work it takes to inspire positive change and achieve lasting results.
Working Together to Meet Challenges Head On as Hospital/Physician Consultants
Recognized as one of the nation’s top healthcare consulting firms, Barlow/McCarthy provides community hospitals, academic medical centers, systems and specialty providers with forward-thinking physician relationship strategies and solutions:
• Physician relations/sales programs
• Physician recruitment and on-boarding
• Practice marketing strategy, design and implementation
• Alignment and leakage; business strategy and model development
Talk to us. With the right team and right attitude, you can achieve powerful results.
We have completed our 2013 Physician Recruitment Onboarding survey. The results are posted in our Resource Center. Sign up and then look under the Recruitment section. CLICK HERE.
Barlow/McCarthy consultant Dave Zirkle was recently published in Becker's Hospital Review. Check out the article on medical staff planning HERE.
AAPL is June 19-21 and B/Mc will be there. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Have you read Kriss Barlow's latest Whitepaper on Physician Engagement? Check it out HERE.
-Mark Twain
Growing to Meet Your Physician Strategy Needs

Upcoming Appearances
Speaking Engagements
Our Barlow/McCarthy team is highly regarded in the industry and we frequently speak about what can be done to improve hospital-physician relationships. We can speak to a variety of methods for recruiting and retaining physicians, as well as provide details about the process, tools, strategies and approaches that comply with the legal guidelines. Or we can customize a program tailored specifically to your team’s goals.
See upcoming presentations »
Georgia Hospital Association
Thursday, June 13th, 2013
Integrating Newly Employed Physicians: Support for Practice Success
Ann Maloley will be speaking at the 2013 Healthcare and Leadership Education Summit for the Georgia Hospital Association
June 19-21, 2013, St. Louis, MO (We will also have our booth at the conference, stop by and say HI!)
Tracking Results to Gain Leadership Buy-In
Kriss Barlow and Susan Boydell will be speaking on using story-telling to get leadership's attention.
Missouri Association for Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing
June 19, 2013, Branson, MO
Physician Engagement/Physician Relations
Jeff Cowart will be leading a workshop that will guide participants in tailoring messages for targeted audiences.
National Society for Certified Healthcare Business Consultants
June 21, 2013, San Antonio, TX
ACOs, CRM and the New Opportunities in Healthcare Marketing
Jeff Cowart will be speaking on how to manage marketing and communicating in the world of healthcare reform.
Forum for Healthcare Strategy WEBINAR
June, 26, 2013, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CENTRAL
Positioning the Population Health Management: The Marketers Challenge
Jeff Cowart with Joel English will examine new challenges for marketers in the face of the Affordable Care Act.





