| HealthLeaders Media Marketing Weekly - June 24, 2009 | Community Benefit Reporting: What It's Not Might Surprise You |
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Community Benefit Reporting: What It's Not Might Surprise You
Gienna Shaw, for HealthLeaders News
One of my favorite responsibilities here at HealthLeaders Media is editing our series of marketing books. The latest is on community benefit reporting and IRS form 990, Schedule H. One of the things that I learned while editing this book and during my frequent conversations with author Patsy Matheny, LLC, is that community benefit reporting is much more complex—and strategic—than it appears at first blush. [Read More] |
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June 24, 2009 |
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Editor's Picks
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Consumer, Employee Satisfaction Up in Nursing Homes
Patient and employee satisfaction is on the rise at nursing homes, reports HealthLeaders Media's MacKenzie Kimball. The 2008 National Survey of Consumer and Workforce Satisfaction in Nursing Homes by My InnerView details the results of satisfaction surveys completed by employees, residents, and family members in 5,075 U.S. nursing homes in 2008. What factors affect employee satisfaction—Nurses and nursing assistants who completed the surveys said they want help with job stress and burnout, management that listens and supervisors who appreciate them, training to deal with difficult residents, and adequate equipment and supplies. [Read More]
Everything you need to know about marketing . . .
A recent gig helping to create a marketing strategy for a Boston-area specialty practice proved to author Barbara Bix that much of what marketers need to know was covered in Marketing 101. In the article, she explains how one surgeon increased referrals 25%, outlining the steps they took—from segmenting the client base to profile the most promising prospective referral sources to "following up and following through." [Read More]
Marketing on the street
A new branding effort at Caritas Christi Health Care network in Massachusetts included a "street team" component: People dressed in Caritas hospital T-shirts and hats dispensed coffee and newspapers in neighborhoods surrounding the hospitals. The network dropped the "Caritas" from its hospitals' names and it's also featured less prominently in ads. In this article, reporter Julie Onufrak interviews Beth Rice, principal of the Hingham, MA-based The Rice Co., which helped develop the campaign. [Read More]
Editor's Note
From all of us at HealthLeaders Media, have a great Fourth of July holiday. HealthLeaders Media Marketing will take next week off, but will return with a new issue July 8. |
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Campaign Spotlight
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Children's Hospital Design Not Childsplay
The outlines of two glowing blue children—Children's Hospital of Wisconsin's logo—stand atop the hospital's new west tower expansion and illuminate the Milwaukee skyline. The new building's walls are covered in over 800 pieces of the hospital's patients' artwork, but that's not where the young patients' influence ends. Every detail of the new wing was designed with its pediatric patients' health, safety, and happiness in mind. "This new facility was built out of necessity," says Sara Silver-Traband, media specialist at Children's Hospital and Health System. [Read More] |
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Audio Feature
Marketers understand the basics of HIPAA, but there are other uses of patient information—especially with the explosion of new forms of communication, such as social media—where things get a little "fuzzy and dicey," Kate Borton, a HIPAA consultant and author of the book A Marketer's Guide to HIPAA, says in this audio interview. Sandra Nunn, enterprise, content, and information manager for Presbyterian Healthcare Services in New Mexico, also talks about some of the new challenges that healthcare marketers face when it comes to HIPAA compliance. You can hear more from Borton and Nunn in the HealthLeaders Media Webcast, HIPAA Changes: New Compliance Strategies for New Marketing Models. [Listen Now] |
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Marketing Resources From HealthLeaders Media
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