Unprecedented margin pressure: if they aren’t already, they should be the three most motivating words in healthcare strategic marketing. Every week brings new reports of hospitals and health systems experiencing startling year-to-year margin declines. This week began with Edward-Elmhurst Health. Last week it was Temple University Health. And the week before, Cedars-Sinai. In September 2016, […]
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At the 2015 SHSMD Connections Conference last October, SPM designed a poll and collected responses to a very important question for 2016: What complex marketing issue are you facing right now? The results were all about managing change.
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News of mergers and acquisitions continue to dominate headlines as hospitals and health systems react to the ACA to improve clinical quality, build integrated delivery systems that cover the entire continuum of care and lower overall cost. In the face of a merger or acquisition, every decision is critical to the success of the future organization.
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To declare your major is to make a choice. For healthcare organizations, that means picking a brand strategy position and communicating that to consumers.
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In the March 2014 edition of Strategic Health Care Marketing, SPM co-owner and managing partner Patti Winegar was featured as an expert on the centralization of marketing in healthcare systems–and the importance of this type of strategy. Read the highlights from the article.
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Last week, I addressed the growing trend of healthcare mergers and acquisitions and the implications for healthcare marketers. Any healthcare organization involved in a transformation must conduct robust brand planning, including answering these 10 questions.
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Healthcare organizations involved in transformations must conduct robust brand planning. They must have people who know how to lead through change.
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