After reviewing the case study regarding Southern Baptist Hospital (SBH), it is obvious that there was very little research done regarding the needs of the audience prior to the development of its marketing strategy. Prior to developing a strategy, the standing of the company and strengths and weaknesses needed to be assessed to determine the necessary areas to focus on.
Based upon the information that was given, SBH does not have an overall marketing plan strategically constructed. Although the plan was costly, it was not well thought out or put together which made their professional television commercials, as a marketing strategy, ineffective. Thus, in return, had no profitable impact on the organizations patient volume, revenue, or market share. With the television commercial, SBH was effective with maintaining contact with existing patients, and staying relevant in the community. However, there were no profitable gains from their strategy, which ultimately deems the overall plan as unsuccessful.
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“For healthcare organizations to be successful in today’s environment, they must develop an in-depth knowledge of their target populations’ social, political and economic characteristics along with its lifestyles, attitudes, and other prominent traits” (Thomas, 2015). In this instance, there is an understanding of what good marketing can result in, however they just do not have an in-depth understanding of the research that needs to be done to make their marketing plan more effective. Their strategy was merely focused on maintaining their reputation rather than having a customer centered focus surrounding the potential for growth. By implementing more time into researching a specific target market, geographic, political, statistical, and functional units, SBH’s television commercial could have been more effective and yielded better
A hospital marketing director has several research projects to undertake this quarter. He must try to determine the appropriate sampling methodology in light of each problem. Describe the methodology that should be used in each of the following and explain why:
An important characteristic when it comes to marketing strategies is that the company’s values line up and support the mission and vision declaration. Healthcare is meant to give superiority services to their community and patients that seek their care. Using Teal Trust’s behavioral norms to create a tactical plan to present the Board of Directors essential to support this method and guarantee profit margins increase over the coming quarters.
Middleboro Community Hospital is a non-profit hospital founded in 1890 with state licensure, The Joint Commission accreditation, and American College of Surgeons approval. Over 120+ year history, Middleboro has grown to be a respectable facility in the eyes of the medical community as well as its immediate population of patients in Middleboro. Still, Middleboro must continue to fight to remain relevant and up-to-date with the latest medical technology and changing patient demographics and needs. In order to this, Middleboro Community Hospital has set these three goals as part of their corporate strategy:
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However, in light of its organizational problems, the situation surrounding HCCH has many opportunities. First, increased funding looks promising; as $875 billion dollars has of late been approved with the Affordable Care Act to challenge the unacceptable status quo of health care in all of America. Second, HCCH is in a good position to be repositioned- meaning that HCCH’s core values of service, equality, and trust are important values to its stakeholders and will only better be reinforced through an effective rebranding. The rebranding itself is of course the third opportunity as the professional advice sought generated enlightening ideas and will guarantee a quality solution. By leveraging these opportunities and strategically managing and mitigating its problems, HCCH has the potential to create a viable marketing plan that will help keep it moving towards its organizational goals.
In order to create a successful marketing plan, a situational analysis must be conducted on AllStar Brands Medicine Group. This situational analysis will be an internal and external analysis and will include the 5Cs, known as Context, Competitors, Customers, Collaborators, and Company. To begin the situational analysis, it is critical to ask, "Where are we now?" The situational analysis will allow for our company to understand the current situation further and make better informed decisions for the future when discussing our marketing strategy. After the marketing strategy has been discussed, the marketing mix will be a direct result of those marketing strategies created.
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Marketing/advertising of number 1 rating of cardiovascular surgery and recognition of orthopedic and stroke programs. ED services offered should also be included. A high momentum of energy promoting these state of the art services will help mend and counter the problem image of RRMC.
The purpose of this assignment is to read and review the case study. Then discuss your assessment of Shouldice Hospital 's marketing challenges, as well as presenting your ideas for how the hospital can best manage those challenges. The assignment will contain the answer of the following questions:
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5. The most important understanding about Arkon Children’s Hospital as an organization that led the firm to consider the research about its positioning was The most important understanding about Akron Children's Hospital as an organization that led the firm to consider the research about its positioning was that this hospital was basically about the kids, and that everything about this hospital should emphasize the kids. In addition, there were rival hospitals that were engaging in aggressive marketing campaigns that threatened the economic and financial security of this hospital as a business institution. An increase in the marketing campaigns in these hospitals could reduce the number of patient cases at Akron Children's Hospital. 6. The research design decision can be put into context by The research design can be put into context as qualitative focus group centered research, that also contained elements of quantitative research methodologies, due to the inclusion of statistical subject matter. 7. The main inferences/conclusions in this case are The main conclusions of this case are that the effective positioning of an institution will require a number of planning options, with focus group research being among those options. There must be a concerted effort by all team members to focus on the
The central concept of marketing is the exchange of something of value between the provider and the purchaser. Determining what the consumer need, want and desire and delivering it better than the competitors is the goal of marketing (Longest, Rakich and Darr, 2000). Healthcare is becoming more business oriented and using marketing tactics to increase consumer use of the services and products the health care system offers. Ensuring marketing of the right products and services is successful the organization’s mission and marketing need to be in alignment. This alignment begins with the strategic planning process, which
This paper pertains to the marketing of Health Care Services and provides the steps and history of marketing in health care and the effects of marketing on the health care delivery system from 1950 to 1990. It introduces the health care consumers and their role in the marketing process as well as the factors that influence consumer behavior. These factors influence the success of marketing in health care. It also provides the requirements for successful marketing and current techniques and strategies used by health care organizations.
Cardinal Health Inc. is a health care company in America which is based in Dublin, Ohio and was founded in 1971. The healthcare company is in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. Cardinal Health specializes in pharmaceuticals and medical products distribution. The healthcare company is among the Fortune 500’s healthcare companies (Cardinal Health, Inc., 2016). This essay reviews Cardinal’s marketing strategies, healthcare access options for consumers, effect of health reforms on its consumers and impact of government agencies on its products among others.