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Advertising Showcase: Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center’s “Get Back to Being You” Campaign

April 15, 2024

Each month, the Strategic Health Care Marketing Advertising Showcase features challenges, tactics, and outcomes of a multimedia advertising campaign, offering strategic and creative insights from some of the nation’s leading hospitals, health systems, and health-related organizations. Penn Medicine Princeton Health Spine Services Campaign PLATINUM WINNER Opportunity In spring 2022, Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center (PMC) Read More

Creating Breakthrough Brands From the Inside Out

April 5, 2024

Static brands result in static organizations. Dynamic, forward-leaning brands break through the noise and unleash the real potential that can change not only your organization but the industry as a whole. // By Susan Dubuque // When two major hospital systems merged to form the largest health system in Michigan, the marketing team had a Read More

COVID Was a Game Changer for How Consumers Interact With Health Care

April 14, 2022

Every other year, PRC conducts a National Healthcare Consumer Study. The 2022 edition reflects research conducted in 2021, comparing it with previous surveys from 2019, 2017, and 2015. Not surprisingly, there are big differences between 2019 and 2021 — before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The intervening years changed the way consumers Read More

Takeaways from PRC’s 2022 Consumer Survey

March 19, 2022

// By Jane Weber Brubaker // PRC’s biennial National Healthcare Consumer Study sheds light on consumer attitudes impacting health care decisions, expectations about quality of care, and generational differences. Every other year, PRC conducts a National Healthcare Consumer Study. The 2022 edition reflects research conducted in 2021, comparing it with previous surveys from 2019, 2017, Read More

When To Downplay the News of a Name Change

February 11, 2021

Laura Pierce, manager of marketing and communications, Tufts Children’s Hospital

“In some cases, letting your ads ignore the news about [your hospital’s] name change can be a smarter move than headlining it,” notes SHCM contributor and veteran copywriter Peter Hochstein. While this may seem hard to believe, he makes his case with the real-life story of the hospital formerly known as the Floating Hospital for Read More

Your hospital changes its name. Should it advertise that fact? Or spend its ad dollars on something else? Don’t answer until you read this.

January 19, 2021

Jeanette Palmer, Head of Client Services, Nail Communications

// By Peter Hochstein // In some cases, letting your ads ignore the news about a name change can be a smarter move than headlining it. Here’s a case in point. It all seemed like a brilliant idea back in 1895. Fresh sea air is good for you, right? All that bracing oxygen and salt Read More

How an Investment in Billboard Marketing Is Paying off for One Health System

December 31, 2020

James K. Elrod, president and CEO of Willis-Knighton Health System

Do you read billboards when you’re driving? If you do, you’re not alone. According to the 2019 Nielsen out-of-home advertising study, eight out of 10 Americans consciously look at billboard messages. As technology evolves, more and more advertisers turn to digital billboards — a computer-controlled display that shows advertisements on a rotating basis — to Read More

Louisiana Health System’s Digital Billboard Strategy Gives New Meaning to “Owned Media”

December 16, 2020

// By Althea Fung // Switching from renting to owning digital billboards gave Willis-Knighton Health System ultimate control over messaging. Do you read billboards when you’re driving? If you do, you’re not alone. According to the 2019 Nielsen out-of-home advertising study, eight out of 10 Americans consciously look at billboard messages. As technology evolves, more Read More

The Strategic Considerations Behind a Successful Rebrand

July 16, 2020

Drew Fennell, chief communications and experience officer at ChristianaCare

Rebranding a large health system is a complex undertaking that is more than a marketing and design challenge; it requires a thoughtful, strategic approach to be successful. ChristianaCare, the largest health care provider in Delaware, unveiled its new brand identity in October 2019, after an 18-month planning process with its agency, Wax Custom Communications. The Read More

ChristianaCare’s Rebrand: A Labor of Love

June 23, 2020

// By Marlene Kurban // Rebranding a large health system is a complex undertaking that is more than a marketing and design challenge; it requires a thoughtful, strategic approach to be successful. ChristianaCare, the largest health care provider in Delaware, unveiled its new brand identity in October 2019, after an 18-month planning process with its Read More

Effective Campaign Features Kids as Fighting Champions

June 18, 2020

Shira Pollard, PR & Marketing Manager, VCU Health System

“Nothing triggers an emotional reaction like watching someone trying to resist it. There’s a kids’ game in which the object is to stare at all the other kids and try to make one of them laugh while they resist. Trying not to laugh usually ended with an explosion of giggles all around,” notes veteran copywriter Read More

Sick Kids with Fierce Determination Raise Preference Scores and Brand Recognition for Virginia’s Children’s Hospital of Richmond

May 13, 2020

// By Peter Hochstein // Sometimes the best way to trigger a strong emotional response is to emphasize the positive. Nothing triggers an emotional reaction like watching someone trying to resist it. There’s a kids’ game in which the object is to stare at all the other kids and try to make one of them Read More

Coronavirus: If You Offer the Answers You Become the Leader

May 7, 2020

“If you become a trusted source of information in a time of crisis, you are demonstrating leadership rather than simply claiming it. And people notice,” says veteran copywriter and frequent SHCM contributor Peter Hochstein. In his new article, he discusses the value of becoming a source of information and reassurance during a crisis, with key Read More

Seize the Opportunity to Keep Patients Informed on How COVID-19 Affects Them: It Helps Position Your Institution as a Leader.

March 27, 2020

// By Peter Hochstein // If you become a trusted source of information in a time of crisis, you are demonstrating leadership rather than simply claiming it. And people notice. Are we all actually dealing simultaneously with two pandemics? There must be millions of Americans who are simultaneously struggling to avoid a pair of plagues. Read More

Eek! You Just Know Off-Camera Disaster Lurks in a Pair of Hilarious TV Spots for a Children’s Emergency Center, but the Hilarity and Danger Create a Marketing Triumph

October 16, 2019

Robin Stefanovich, president, The Mitchells

// By Peter Hochstein // How brave do marketers have to be to use humor in a spot for pediatric emergency care that shows kids flirting with danger? Uh oh! Trouble in the backyard. On a steeply sloping patch of lawn, three girls who appear to be the right age for middle school have erected Read More

What Can Negativity Do for Your Advertising? At the University of Rochester Medical Center, Talking About “The Bad Stuff” Is Doing Lots of Good

May 7, 2019

Notable Health Care Advertising // By Peter Hochstein // Here’s a powerful technique for building emotion into your advertising. If you dare to use it. Advertisers in almost any business — and the advertising agencies that service them — usually hate negativity. They look for emphasis on the upbeat. They like to portray, as the Read More

Small Hospital Employs “Guerrilla Marketing” To Great Effect

August 24, 2017

“You know you’re in rural America when the front page of the local newspaper features a story about one of its delivery truck drivers finding his route blocked by a pair of obstinate moose,” observes Peter Hochstein, veteran copywriter and regular SHCM contributor. “It happened in Gloversville, New York, population 15,315, and once the center of Read More

How Can a Small-Town Hospital Get Big Returns on a Very Small Marketing Budget? It Pays to Be Clever. And Not Just with Advertising Copy.

July 31, 2017

Notable Health Care Advertising // By Peter Hochstein // You know you’re in rural America when the front page of the local newspaper features a story about one of its delivery truck drivers finding his route blocked by a pair of obstinate moose. It happened in Gloversville, New York, population 15,315, and once the center Read More