Inimoni Children's Hospital Case Study

Decent Essays
>cases
Akron Children’s Hospital, Part A
>Abstract
Northeastern Ohio is a highly competitive health-care market, especially for the care of seriously ill children. With powerhouse health care institutions like the Cleveland Clinic venturing into the children’s care segment, Akron Children’s needed a way to differentiate itself. The research profiled in this case helped develop the positioning of Akron Children’s hospital and its promotional approach that resulted in an increase in its bed-occupancy rate, a key metric in the health care industry.

>The Scenario
…show more content…
“2005’s 10 Best Children’s Hospital,” Child, accessed September 22, 2006 (http://www.child.com/child/ story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/child/story/data/1130522345565.xml). “2005’s 10 Best Children’s Hospital: Specialty Honors,” Child, accessed September 22, 2006 (http:// w w w. c h i l d . c o m / c h i l d / s t o r y. j h t m l ? s t o r y i d = / t e m p l a t e d a t a / c h i l d / s t o r y / d a t a / 1130522345565.xml&categoryid=/templatedata/child/category/data/1131546614395.xml&page=13). “A Continuing Legacy of Caring for Children,” Child, accessed September 22, 2006 (http:// www.rainbowbabies.org/AboutRainbow/tabid/301/Default.aspx). “About Akron Children’s,” Akron Children’s hospital, accessed September 22, 2006 (http:// www.akronchildrens.org/cms/site/14908a4d74b348d5/index.html). Akron Children’s Hospital TV and radio spots provided by Marcus Thomas LLC via DVD. “Akron Children’s Hospital,” Wikipedia.com, accessed September 22, 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Akron_Children%27s_Hospital). “America’s Best Hospitals 2006 Methodology,” RTI International, accessed September 22, 2006. “Best Hospitals 2006: Honor Roll,” U.S. News & World Report, accessed September 22, 2006 (http:// www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/honorroll.htm). “Case Study: Akron Children’s Hospital: Renewing a Brand Promise,” …show more content…
Within the first quarter, Marcus Thomas reconvened to evaluate the preliminary advertising and refine the brand message. Research on competitors’ messages revealed that the Cleveland Clinic and Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital were emphasizing the high-tech nature of their medical practice as a means of defining their quality. Since Akron Children’s faced this competitive counterpunch, Marcus Thomas decided to test whether the care-centered brand message they recommended was truly effective in influencing parents’ hospital selection. To test message performance, Marcus Thomas conducted two more rounds of research: focus groups (phase two) followed by surveys (phase

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    St. Jude, a globally known hospital, is discovering innovative methods to treat life threatening diseases and defeat cancer as well. St. Jude has become the number one most reliable non-profit institute in the nation. Non-profit organizations get their subsidy from contributions from the public. John Greeves, senior vice president of public affairs and policy at Harris Interactive states, “the desire of Americans to reach out to help those who are suffering as a result of the poor economic conditions.” No family at St. Jude will ever have to be financially accountable for their procedures.…

    • 536 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    With the onset of cold and flu season comes fevers, coughs, sore throats, upset stomachs and the list goes on. Most concerning is when ailments occur at night or on the weekend and fall outside of normal physician office hours. How can you know what warrants a trip to a pediatric urgent care, an Emergency Room or what can possibly wait until Monday when your physician's office resumes regular office hours? There are many gray areas that require the discretion or gut feeling of the parent, but some situations warrant a trip to an Urgent Care that specializes in Pediatrics or even a trip to the Emergency Room.…

    • 478 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Henry Ford Marketing Plan

    • 1319 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The marketing strategy used by the hospital is thorough, and has successful results. The marketing strategy consists of gathering and analyzing information regarding the demographic, and areas of concern and need. The strategy also consists of goals and objectives to each target audience, whether it is employees of Henry Ford Hospital, childhood and family wellness in Detroit and surrounding areas, and virtual wellness. Wellness and Prevention programs are crucial for health care organizations to promote healthy lifestyles, and to educate the…

    • 1319 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Shriners Hospital For Children is a non-profit organization that has made a huge impact on the children at Shriners Hospital It was formed to help transform the delivery of health care for children with orthopaedic conditions, burn injuries, spinal cord injuries and birth defects all around the world. Walter. M . Fleming and William J. “Billy” Florence are the founders of the Shriners Hospital. walter and Billy they were apart of the Mason Fraternity and their other fortunity brothers were thinking of coming up with a non profit organization that would help children.…

    • 881 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    CHLA is a non-profit, private pediatric hospital under the leadership of volunteer Board of Trustees, including physicians and community administrators. The Board’s primary goal is to implement their vision, mission, and goals of the hospital, by providing quality care for their patients and ensuring the financial health of the hospital. Two individuals make up the Board Co-Chair, Lynda Boone Fetter and Arnold Kleiner. While, twenty members make up CHLA’s Committee Board. The following are part of the Committee Board, advancement, audit, center for global health, compensation, finance, governance, government relations, investment, research, safety and quality, service and access.…

    • 240 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee is the hospital I chose for my Capstone project. The reason I choose this hospital is because the amazing job they do with children with cancer and the support for their families. The St. Jude children’s hospital has an amazing mission to provide advance research to help prevent pediatrics catastrophic diseases and they will never denied treatment to anyone based on race, religion or ability to pay. The idea of this project is to show how the organization works showing the facility physical setting, vision and goals, patient base, researches.…

    • 98 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    Market Analysis for Pocahontas Memorial Hospital Rural Satellite Clinic For health care centers to remain competitive, it is important for them to conduct a comprehensive market analysis to properly understand important issues affecting their health care marketplace (Ginter, Swayne, & Duncan, 2012). An effective market analysis consists of the following elements: industry overview, target customers, market segmentation, competition and market needs, growth, and trends (CSU-Global, 2015). This paper discusses the components of a valuable market analysis and strategic thinking map for Pocahontas Memorial Hospital’s (PMH) that will help them when making strategic decisions and developing strategic alternatives for its’ proposed rural satellite…

    • 1393 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    On 05/07/17, at 7:20pm, I Deputy Warden N. Christian was dispatched to Nationwide Children’s Hospital (700 Children’s Drive) on a injury-possible dangerous or vicious dog, no known owner. I arrived at the hospital and met victim Shanisa Newell. Shanisa mother (Sharese Newell) had yet to arrive at the hospital; I waited until her arrival at approximately 8:20pm. Prior to Shanisa mother arriving I took a picture of her injuries as the medical staffs were addressing her wound.…

    • 270 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Part four video shows the importance of relationships between healthcare providers, patients, and families in order to understand the sophisticated technology and the more complex health care delivery systems in the United States, specifically, in the teaching hospital, the Medical College of Georgia. The mutual communication and cooperation among these population groups provide fundamental changes in transforming the institution into a nationally recognized facility where a partnership is a guiding vision to the care it delivers. Once a month, a special committee meets in the hospital consisting of a Parent Advisory Group and a children 's advisory group and the kids get to offer suggestions on what changes they want to see made in the center. Parents can even accompany their sick children into the operating rooms, intensive care units, and recovery rooms if they want to. I hope, current academic medical centers can make Georgia’s Medical center as a valuable benchmark for transforming the fundamental change in their healthcare delivery system.…

    • 732 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The challenges in developing this health care marketing business plan was researching secondary data sources that would properly represent the industry overview. By narrowing the service area, the search for secondary data sources such as, social changes, and economic reimbursement was much easier. Defining the mix of advertising vehicles and determining the advertising budget for the promotional strategy was challenging. Historically Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center’s advertising campaign uses a variety of media including community publications, billboards, newspaper, magazines, direct marketing and most recently radio ads therefore, adding the diabetes clinic to the established media plan seems logical.…

    • 127 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Rolling out new healthcare programs creates a competitive edge for the hospital because some hospitals lack the niche center their focus. This helps bridge the gap between community-based practices and those provided by NYU Langone thereby creating a seamless experience for patients. Strategies NYU Langone focuses on providing communities with world-class medical services other than offering serving educational purposes. The marketing strategy seeks to create awareness of the new health care programs for a rollout, developing target audience, and working towards building customer loyalty and…

    • 1151 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The patient Navigation will serve as guide to the disadvantaged African Americans and Hispanics in question by identifying the specific healthcare needs of these patients such as inadequate or lack of insurance coverage and subsequently fulfill these patient ’s needs thereby promoting better patient outcomes. In addition to the fulfilling the health insurance needs of these patients, the patient navigation tool can also serve a communication medium with other departments such as financial services, patient transport, and patient/family education, thereby enhancing the health of these patients and promoting well-being. The elimination of certain non-medical day to day stressors which are not intrinsically connected to a patient’s health may promote a faster patient recovery. A Patient/family that do not have to worry about the financial resources to address non-medical burdens such as rent or mortgage while admitted in the hospital for example may have a faster recovery than the one who is preoccupy with financial constraints.…

    • 285 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Texas Children’s Integrated Delivery System (TCH IDS) has penetrated the market by increasing the amount of system based community pediatric provider offices, adding two smaller community based hospitals (West Campus/Woodlands), opening urgent care facilities throughout communities that surround Houston, opening a state of the art women’s health center (Women’s Pavilion), each hospital campus has an ambulatory side that has diverse specialties offered, and offer a CHIP and Medicare insurance specifically geared to children. There are not many strategies that TCH IDS has not put into motion, however an organization can always improve further to enhance productivity, functionality, and quality of services offered. There are some specific actions…

    • 1082 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Many of the children came from large families who were only able to give them limited attention, despite the fact that they desperately needed large amounts of individualized attention. The care that staff gave these children helped level the playing field for some of them. Despite their differences, all patients, first are foremost, are united by the fact that they are people who just want to improve their heath. As someone who is passionate about connecting with and helping others, I am interested in more than just the medical problems that people might have; I am interested in the patients as people. These experiences made me realize how important understanding the whole patient is.…

    • 1542 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Ethics in Marketing – Importance, Scope and Concerns Marketing Ethics is the area of applied ethics which deals with the moral principles behind the operation and regulation of marketing. Marketing ethics has influenced companies and their response is to market their products in a socially responsible way. The increasing trend of fare trade is an example of impact of marketing ethics. As stated by the Statement of Ethics of American Marketing Association, some ethical norms are - • Do not harm • Embrace ethical values such as honesty, responsibility, respect, fairness etc., • Foster trust in the marketing system No company is completely ethical or unethical, they might be ethical in one aspect and unethical in the other.…

    • 777 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays

Related Topics