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Great River Health
West Burlington, Iowa

Physician Liaison | 40 hours per week (Exempt) | Medical Staff Development

Physician Relations / RecruitingIncludes weekendsFull-Time

Listed compensation

From $61,526

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

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Job Description

Minimum Hiring Wage

From $61,526.40 a year

Job Details

  • Scheduled Hours: 8:00am - 5:00pm
  • Occasional Weekend Shifts

Job Description

Responsible for strategically planning and implementing outreach efforts focusing on physicians, community groups, and other potential referral sources in the health system's target markets.

Primarily focuses on developing and improving health system referral relationships with physicians in the service area, with the goal of increasing the selection of Great River Health System (GRHS) facilities for inpatient and outpatient services as well as Great River Clinic specialties and sub-specialties by physicians who utilize the GRHS facilities and those who also select non-GRHS facilities.

Also responsible for establishing, building and maintaining strategic relationships between physicians and their office staff and hospital administration. Responsible for promoting and marketing GRHS programs and services to physicians and their office staff.

Timely identification and resolution of issues that affect our Medical Staff and the effective delivery of health care. Executes initiatives related to increasing loyalty and preference to GRHS among internal and external provider referral sources.

Responsible for ensuring great provider relations from hire to separation and successful provider retention within the health system.

What You Will Do

Working with strategically identified physicians in an effort to enhance patient care by ensuring effective communication as well as to facilitate introductions to physicians and/or health system programs and services. Successful in securing face-to-face meetings with physicians or key decision-makers in practices.

Implementing strategic physician marketing plans and strategies, understanding profitability, setting and maintaining appropriate tracking mechanisms and demonstrating positive ROI.

Persistence in overcoming objections, while identifying and following through with opportunities. Assisting with the development, distribution and communication of key information of health system. Articulates issues facing departments, which can impact marketability and have the ability to suggest potential solutions

Establishing and maintaining ongoing communications with referring providers and/or their office staff, including routine follow-up visits, emails, and phone calls

Identifying opportunities to support physician success and retention, collaborating with Human Resources to develop retention strategies and best practices.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) in Marketing, Business Administration, or Healthcare, or comparable, relevant experience Preferred

1-3 years experience working with physicians/providers, medical practice office staff, or other medical specialties Preferred

Benefits

We are excited to offer an aggressive compensation and benefits package for qualifying positions, which includes:

  • Competitive base pay
  • Matching retirement programs
  • Health, Dental and Vision plans
  • Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Employee discounts including car rental, cell-phone plans
  • Employer-paid, Long-Term Disability, Life, and AD&D
  • Paid time off (PTO)
  • Education Assistance Program
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Employee Referral Bonus Program
  • Discounted cafeteria meals
  • Paid Parental Leave

Employee Service Recognition Program

Voluntary plans including: Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability, Critical Illness, Accident, Insurance, and Hospital Indemnity

Great River Health and its affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Key Responsibilities

The Physician Liaison is responsible for strategically planning and implementing outreach efforts to build and maintain relationships with physicians and referral sources. They will also identify and resolve issues affecting medical staff while promoting health system programs to increase provider loyalty and retention.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree

Key Skills

Physician relationsStrategic planningRelationship managementHealthcare marketingIssue resolutionBusiness developmentReferral managementData trackingROI analysisPublic speakingInterpersonal skillsCollaboration

Physician Relations & Recruiting Career Context

Of the 40 active Physician Relations & Recruiting listings this role was benchmarked against, 23% are remote, 18% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

Physician Relations & Recruiting pay on WeekdayDoc is down 7.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Physician Relations & Recruiting by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedPhysician Relations & Recruiting median $93k (middle half $66k–$115k)31 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingIowa index 87.8US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
All physician relations & recruiting listings in Iowa12 active1,246 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 23% remote · 18% no call · 70% no weekends40 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedUS healthcare professional listings (all specialties): 6% state a sign-on bonus (median $3k) · 5% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Nov 2026
Physician Relations & Recruiting pay trend (all specialties)−7.4% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page. Iowa figures use all physician relations & recruitings: too few Iowa Physician Relations & Recruiting postings state pay.

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Listing-based score
  • Includes weekends
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About Great River Health

Hospitals and Health Care
West Burlington, IA
501-1,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Competitive base pay
Matching retirement programs
Health, Dental and Vision plans
Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
Employee discounts including car rental, cell-phone plans
Employer-paid, Long-Term Disability, Life, and AD&D
Paid time off (PTO)
Education Assistance Program

Living in West Burlington

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$179k≈ 2.9× annual pay
Median resident rent
$800/mo≈ 16% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
18 min
State income tax
Up to 6%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.