Position Summary:

The Physician Relations Manager is responsible for executing all strategies to enhance relations between potential and current medical staff members at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center , Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach and Community Hospital Long Beach.  This will include implementation of a physician outreach and retention program and ongoing identification of new physicians for recruitment or redirection from other facilities into key product lines. The primary responsibility of this position is to develop and maintain strong referral relationships between the hospital and community-based physicians throughout the region. The overall goal of the position is to increase visibility of hospital services, increase referrals and decrease outmigration

Job Functions:

• Develops and manages referral relationships between the hospital and community-based practitioners.
• Gathers market intelligence through physician outreach efforts and communicates information to service line leaders.
• Maintains profiles on physician practices, analyzes physician activity reports and develops strategy to address referral patterns and areas of interest.
• Plans and coordinates physician outreach, networking events and referral meetings.
• Manages the recruitment and on-boarding of new physicians and medical directors, including hospital orientation, introduction to leadership, and follow up to specific interest areas.
• Collaborates with transport team and establishes referral relationships with hospital partners to increase utilization of MCH transport services.
• Performs other duties as assigned.