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City of Hope

Physician Relations Liaison

About City of Hope

City of Hope, an innovative biomedical research, treatment and educational institution with over 4000 employees, is dedicated to the prevention and cure of cancer and other life-threatening diseases and guided by a compassionate, patient-centered philosophy.

Founded in 1913 and headquartered in Duarte, California, City of Hope is a remarkable non-profit institution, where compassion and advanced care go hand-in-hand with excellence in clinical and scientific research. City of Hope is a National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation's 20 leading cancer centers that develops and institutes standards of care for cancer treatment.

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Description:

The Physician Liaison is responsible for the development and implementation of growth strategies focused on physicians, medical groups, hospital partners, and community based organizations for the Duarte campus in partnership with the broader business development and physician relations teams as part of the Physician Relations Management (PRM) Program. This position will initiate, nurture, and sustain relationships with identified partners within their specific service area to support overall growth strategies for City of Hope Duarte as outlined in the Strategic Plan.

The successful Liaison provides and recommends the appropriate programs, services, specific knowledge about treatments and background on City of Hope physicians. The overall goal of the position is to increase visibility of City of Hope's services, increase referrals and new patient acquisitions.

Key Responsibilities include:

Physician Liaison/ Relations Management:

  • Partner with new patient services/ Access team to ensure appropriate feedback received from the field and issues addressed
  • Facilitate the retention of physician and hospital relationships.
  • Complete face-to-face meetings with physicians, schedulers, practice managers, and medical staff from referring hospitals to ensure understanding, as well as to close business, ensuring that obstacles are identified and minimized.
  • Effectively manage territory, conducting office visits to include:
  • Education on services offered, enhancement and new advances
  • Maintaining image (community-centered, patient-first, leading-edge provider)
  • Offering excellent customer service
  • Implementing new products/services/ protocols
  • Communicating opportunities, market trends, and issues to appropriate management/staff in a timely manner
  • Coordinate meetings between key staff, physician groups, and external customer groups to improve communication and relationships in order to increase referrals or resolve customer service issues
  • Collaborates with clinical marketing, Foundation, Duarte physicians, community practice sites, and CME department
  • Support attendance to continuing medical education (CME) events as needed.
  • Contacts, meets with and orients each new Duarte-based provider
  • Participate in meetings as needed to understand new programs, capital purchases or innovations and marketing initiatives
  • Market service lines, research opportunities, and technology to new physicians to the system
  • Regularly maintain and update database for all non-City of Hope physician and office staff contacts, ensuring compliance according to Stark law. Provide reports for frequent distribution to leadership
  • Play active role in roll out of EpicCareLink and CareEverywhere as part of EPIC

Market Management and Sales Analytics:

  • Understand and provide service area intelligence to aid strategic development, operational flows and business growth initiatives
  • Identify target markets in accordance with organizational strategy utilizing familiarity with hospital operations and existing reporting, tools and dashboards
  • Evaluate and interpret market utilization data and market demographics, including market share data for primary or secondary facility service lines, ensuring that priorities are identified for both physicians and patient populations
  • Interpret current physician referral patterns, trends, and financial margins, ensuring that resources are optimized
  • Develop growth strategies for target markets and service lines and set goals and timelines for growing referral volumes based on new or established physician and outreach relationships

Minimum Education and Skills Required for Consideration:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Communications, or Healthcare. Prefer advance degree in healthcare administration.
  • Experience may substitute for minimum education
  • Must have at least 5 years of healthcare/hospital experience in driving healthcare business development, physician relations, and/or network development.
  • Must be proficient in MS Office
  • Must have demonstrated critical thinking and analytical skills, financial acumen and proven sales experience.
  • Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision and direction.
  • Must be well-versed in oncology and treatment solutions; must be able to speak peer to peer; ability to address any concerns about referring patients to City of Hope
  • Must be able to work some evenings.
  • Must be able to travel outside of the office.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a CA Driver's license with a clean driving record.

Preferred Education and Skills:

  • Experience as a Nurse or surgical background is preferred or pharmaceutical or medical device sales.

City of Hope is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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Job ID: 62baccbaab00f431f1c1db6ee4b7d9c0
Employment Type: Other

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