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Always have a crisis plan in place first is key to managing a social media crisis when it occurs

Healthcare Marketers Can Learn Valuable Lessons from the Penn State Scandal.

Every organization fears it. A crisis of public confidence and perception. Hopefully as a healthcare marketer, you won’t be faced with a major one. But most likely, sometime in your career you will. Maybe more than once. And during a crisis is no time to be learning on the fly. It’s much better to first learn from others and then you will be prepared if and when your crisis comes.

Anne Hancock Toomey and Joe Tye wrote an article for Hospital and Health Networks titled “Cardinal Rules for Crisis Response” and examined how Penn State handled their recent crisis. Though I’m hesitant to criticize how anyone handles a crisis, because it’s so much easier to do so from a rear view mirror than in the middle of the crisis. Afterwards you can examine results and reactions, which are not…

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Interesting list of ideas to help you build your hospital brand.

Marketing Your Hospital

Becker’s Hospital Review published an article providing 42 tips for building and promoting a hospital brand as offered by Dr. Rhoda Weiss, a healthcare consultant, editor of Marketing Health Services Magazine and a professor of healthcare marketing at UCLA. Her suggestions are methods for creating relationships in order to build a brand.

Many of them your hospital may already be doing. Some may not apply to your situation. Some are operational and some are marketing. But it is a list with basic, very good suggestions.

Peruse the list. You may get some ideas that will help you build your hospital brand.

Write welcome letters and call new staff
Encourage staff with signage such as, “through these doors walk greatest staff”
Recognize newcomers as “buddies,” and assign them mentors
Develop a robust orientation program for staff and families
Create pride cards based on what makes staff proud
Implement an employee of…

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Category: Hospital Marketing

42 Ideas for Building a Better Hospital Brand