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Navigating Diverse Markets: How Renown Health Connects with Spanish-Speaking Patients

Cristal Woodley, vice president of marketing and communications, Renown Health

At Renown Health, communicating with Spanish-speaking patients requires more than literal translation. It calls for a marketing strategy built on listening, cultural understanding, and an end-to-end experience that makes access to care feel respectful and seamless. Discover practical lessons in navigating language, culture, and access in diverse markets.

When “Translate” Isn’t Enough: How Renown Health Builds a Spanish-Language Strategy Rooted in Trust

Emily MacMillan, manager of marketing and creative services, Renown Health

// By Susan Dubuque // At Renown Health, communicating with Spanish-speaking patients requires more than literal translation. It calls for a marketing strategy built on listening, cultural understanding, and an end-to-end experience that makes access to care feel respectful and seamless. Discover practical lessons in navigating language, culture, and access in diverse markets.

Winning the Talent Game: Recruitment and Retention Campaign Strategies

Alex Fagundes, marketing business partner, Renown Health

// By Susan Dubuque // Marketing leaders from Renown Health and The Christ Hospital Health Network share how their award-winning recruitment and retention strategies helped address workforce shortages. Read on to discover how authentic messaging and targeted outreach can strengthen both recruitment and retention.

What Does It Take to Succeed as a New Health Care CMO?

Andrew Chang, chief marketing officer, UChicago Medicine

What a new CMO accomplishes in the first three months on the job can make or break their legacy. Three seasoned CMOs joined a panel at the 2025 Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit to share how they started in their roles and what really works when stepping into the top marketing job.

Doing More with Less: How AMC Marketers Balance Digital Growth with Financial Pressures

Suzanne Bharati Hendery, Renown Health

Marketing leaders from Banner Health, Renown Health, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), and Primacy share how academic medical centers adapt strategy, structure, and technology to align today’s health care landscape. Learn how academic medical center marketers adjust their strategies to optimize effectiveness today and focus on the future.

How to Succeed in a New CMO Role: Lessons from Top Health Care Marketing Leaders

Kathy Smith, vice president and chief marketing and digital officer, Roper St. Francis Healthcare

// By Wendy Margolin // What a new CMO accomplishes in the first three months on the job can make or break their legacy. Three seasoned CMOs joined a panel at the 2025 Healthcare Marketing & Physician Strategies Summit to share how they started in their roles and what really works when stepping into the top marketing job.

Biggest Issues Facing Academic Medical Center Marketers in 2025

Don Stanziano, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, Banner Health

// By Therese Lockemy, MBA // Marketing leaders from Banner Health, Renown Health, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), and Primacy share how academic medical centers adapt strategy, structure, and technology to align today’s health care landscape. Learn how academic medical center marketers adjust their strategies to optimize effectiveness today and focus on the future.

5 Leadership Habits to Boost Your Career and Unlock Your Health Care Marketing Potential

Andy Cessac, Senior Marketing Manager, Emory Healthcare

Whether you’re new to health care marketing or a seasoned professional seeking fresh inspiration, now is the time to take charge of your career trajectory. Small, strategic changes can significantly impact your professional journey. Here, you’ll discover practices of top early-career performers and set your roadmap to jump-start or reboot your career.

Shaping the Future: Leadership Habits to Boost Your Career

Linda MacCracken, principal, Ignite Market Advantage

// By Susan Dubuque // Whether you’re new to health care marketing or a seasoned professional seeking fresh inspiration, now is the time to take charge of your career trajectory. Small, strategic changes can significantly impact your professional journey. Here, you’ll discover practices of top early-career performers and set your roadmap to jump-start or reboot your career.

Discover How Top Health Systems Leverage Enterprise-Wide Collaboration to Drive Growth

Skip Hidlay The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center

A focused, bidirectional collaboration between health system call centers and marketing teams is critical to ensuring positive customer experiences that deliver on the brand promise and ultimately drive organizational targets for growth and revenue. Too often, health system marketing and Access teams operate separately and don’t align to create the best customer service journey. This Read More

How Marketing and PR Collaboration Can Help Address Staffing Shortages

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According to a recent report in Becker’s Health IT, health care marketing budgets have declined by 8 percent over the past year — down markedly from 2019 when budgets peaked. Marketing leaders also indicate that they are experiencing increased pressure to quantify results and demonstrate a return on investment. Aligning marketing and public relations efforts Read More

Have You Created a Sustaining Health System Brand?

Suzanne Bharati Hendery, Renown Health

A strong and sustaining health system brand is a living organism. It is conceived from the system’s mission, vision, values, and strategic plan. It is hatched from empathy. It is nourished and allowed to flourish when expressed in one voice. So how does a health system bring its brand to life? What steps must be Read More

Renown Health Brand Builds on Generational Legacy of Grit and Tenacity

Susan Dubuque

// By Susan Dubuque // Three years ago, Renown Health senior leadership set out to update the strategic plan for the health system, and Suzanne Hendery, chief marketing, communications & customer officer, was asked to craft a brand platform to reflect the new organizational direction. Learn what steps she took to craft a highly successful brand strategy.

At Renown Health, Employees Have a Friend in Senior Leadership

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When you think of the view from the C-suite, you think of a physical or metaphorical high-rise vantage point. A position that sits above many others, taking in big-picture ideas and providing direction for the masses. But Renown Health’s Suzanne Hendery tries to keep that C-suite view on a similar level to her managers and Read More

Remote Monitoring Enables High-Level Care at Home

The current pandemic is pushing the boundaries for parity when it comes to telemedicine reimbursement. How long will it be before the entire health care system repositions itself to provide hospital-level care for patients at home through ongoing remote monitoring? That’s what Tony Slonim has been working toward since he took the helm seven years Read More

The Case for Hospital-Level Home Care

Tony Slonim, MD, DrPH, president and CEO, Renown Health

View from the C-Suite: Anthony Slonim, MD, DrPH, President and CEO at Renown Health // By Marcia Simon, APR // Leading the charge toward home care reimbursement parity and population health involves huge challenges. “You have to have a vision, you have to execute the vision, and you have to tell your story,” says Renown Read More

Your CEO’s Trust Is Essential to Your Success

Christine Albert, senior vice president, marketing and communications, LCMC Health

Trust. Respect. Transparency. These are the words that describe how a good relationship between the CMO and CEO can lead to effective investment in marketing communications. “It is important to listen and ask questions of the CEO and other C-suite members to discover what is important to their stakeholders,” says Christine Albert, senior vice president, Read More

Chief Marketing Officers — Your CEO Is Counting on Your Expertise

Sheryl Jackson

View From the C-Suite: Greg Feirn, CEO; and Christine Albert, SVP; Marketing & Communications, LCMC Health Anthony D. Slonim, MD, DrPH, CEO; and Suzanne Hendery, Chief Marketing & Customer Officer; Renown Health // By Sheryl S. Jackson // Strong relationships between CEOs and CMOs help organizations align on a shared vision, invest in the right Read More

Communication Strategies Evolve as Pandemic Restrictions Loosen

Suzanne Hendery, chief marketing and communications officer at Renown Health

During the initial stages of the pandemic, health care marketing leaders found their mission changing from brand and service-line promotion to crisis communication management, with staffs focusing efforts on sharing up-to-date information for patients and communities. Now that businesses are beginning to reopen, employees are returning to work, and restrictions on daily activities are loosening, Read More