Eight Secrets to Physician Alignment
The nation’s finest hospitals all have excellent physician/ C-suite relationships. They are built upon trust, respect, commitment, frequent communications and successful conflict resolution programs.
- A physician liaison must be assigned, empowered and equipped to meet the needs of both parties, and must be accountable for targeted results
- Incentives for throughput and patient satisfaction must be established
- Understanding physician needs (personal and professional) are paramount to physician satisfaction.
- Support practices for volume grow, profitably, operations and logical expansion
- Create recognition programs, public acknowledgment of practice excellence
- Listen carefully-physician surveys and open-ended status discussions must be frequent
- Physician satisfaction and physician benchmarking must be measured against bottom line targets
- Specific physician marketing activities must be correlated to specific volume and physician satisfaction goals
Since 1981 King’s Medical has worked with hospitals and physicians to improve care in over 200 markets. To request additional King’s Medical Physician Alignment data and to discuss a confidential Site Identification Report for your market see the offer on this page.

