Author: Michael Dowd

Over the past decade, hospitals have doubled the amount they spend on marketing and communications. A massive population of aging baby-boomers along with a significant healthcare reform designed to create millions of newly insured patients, has fueled much of this growth. In 2009, hospital marketing budgets ranged from an average of $1.3 million for independent hospitals to $5.8 million for…

  While working on a white paper about hospital and physician marketing, this analogy popped into my head. Now, I’m not trying to play to anyone’s ego here, but this comparison really does lend some insight to positioning your facility in a competitive market. Especially when it comes to searching for a physician. As a resident of Raleigh, North Carolina, there…