Networking

1. Building Your Strategic Alliances
Karita Martinez-Anderson
MHA/520
June 11th, 2018
Dr.Hanna Matatyaho

2. Strategic Alliance
Networking is a big part of making good connections in the healthcare field and also in
most cases obtaining employment. Within my current position as a Patient Services
Representative for Penn Medicine, because it is a major hospital and they have multiple
departments and employees. A good way for me to network and make good connections would
be to first use LinkedIn, and this way would work out good first, mainly because I would be able
to network and see all the people throughout LinkedIn’s database that are currently Penn
employees. This is why it is good to make sure that my LinkedIn has Penn as my current
employer, because it would automatically pull up everyone within that organization that
currently has a LinkedIn account. Another good way to network would be to network with my
friends that currently work there and then once I network with them, they can then connect me
with their current friends that work at Penn as well.
Joining groups is another way that I can network within my role as a Patient Services
Rep, because by me joining groups I can network with other people that are currently in the same
roles as I am; but that work at other facilities. Networking is not only limited to joining groups
and LinkedIn, there are many other ways to make connections within my healthcare industry.
One good way as the Morgan Hunter article states is to “Offer your help and your time to help a
colleague solve a problem, or work through a difficult situation. Not only will you develop
deeper relationships with people, but you’ll sharpen your problem solving skills” (Morgan
Hunter Healthcare,2018).