10 More Trusted Ways to Get More Patients to Hospitals

Introduction

Now a days, everything is digitalized. Patients have more options than ever before. With so much information available online, they no longer feel the need to visit the hospital or practice closest to their location. That’s why it’s so important to have a planned, budgeted healthcare marketing strategy to reach new and returning patients in your area at the right time.

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Planning Your Healthcare Marketing Strategy

Even if current patient volume is good, to keep healthcare brand at the forefront of people’s minds is challenging. Medical marketing strategy can help any hospital to maintain reputation as well as to reach out more and more people. Hospital leaders should think all the reasons someone might decide to switch healthcare providers such as a change in insurance, relocation, dissatisfaction with wait times, or just one negative experience.

Some of the ways are described below on which hospital leaders should focus if they are wishing to increase patients count:

Use consistent branding

Firstly, any hospital needs to figure out what their brand is all about. What’s unique about their hospital or practice? What are the facilities? Is it the way you treat patients? There should be at least one thing that makes any hospital team unique, and that’s what helps patients remember their name.

It may take time to figure out what works for hospital as a brand. Once hospital leaders learn how best to represent their brand with any marketing materials, marketing strategy comes together smoothly. Eventually, any hospital can grab a market if they make use of branding consistently.

2. Evaluate the online patient experience

Now a days, online reviews play an important role. We can say it makes publicity more rapidly more than mouth publicity. A decade ago, simply having a website was enough to impress prospective patients and help them find your brand. But now, a website is healthcare’s new front door. It’s the first thing patients often see, and if it’s not optimized for user experience, it may also be the last time a person considers your hospital or practice. User experience is an important consideration in website design.

3. Build a responsive website

A responsive website is one that automatically adjusts to the size of a screen, so the experience is the same whether the site is accessed on a computer, tablet, or mobile device.

Google cares about the user experience, and it will prioritize competitors who have a site optimized for mobile. In general, responsive sites work best for the mobile experience. Even if hospital website is responsive site, checking of website should be done on a regular basis.

Checking of website should include the content checking and imagery continues to load properly on mobile devices.

4. Test site speeds

Marketers who study user behaviors online have proven that patients today are less willing to put up with slow loading times than ever before. It only takes 5 seconds to lose a prospective patient who decides to navigate elsewhere thanks to your slow site. Site speed should be tested on regular basis. If load times are slow then it is advisable to speak to web developer about ways to speed it up.

5. Test site speeds

In fact, it’s another user experience issue that may cause your medical website to fall in the search engine results. You can test your site speed at Google’s Page Speed Insights here. If load times are slow, speak to your web developer about ways to speed it up.

6. Leverage social media (the right way)

Too many hospitals and practices rely on organic social media for a large part of their digital healthcare marketing strategies. Organic social media means posting photos, updates, events, and more directly to the social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ platform.

However, it shouldn’t be only social strategy. Hospitals can go for paid advertising on social to reach the right people who may be looking for hospital services.

7. Ask for reviews

Typically, patients only leave reviews when they are motivated to do so, or if they had an above average (or extremely poor) experience. Hospitals should ask for review; otherwise they may miss an opportunity to get positive feedback from patients who were satisfied with their visit.

This might be difficult for front office staff of hospital to take each & every patient’s feedback & evaluate it. That’s why it is recommend automated reviews as part of any hospital or practice healthcare marketing strategy.

8. Follow up with patient feedback

When patients have a poor opinion of your practice and leave reviews on outside sites, what hospitals can do is follow up with any patient feedback and show that you are working on the problem. By doing so, patients may be motivated to update their review to let others know the problem was resolved in a timely fashion.

Reputation management should be part of any healthcare marketing strategy, but this doesn’t mean that hospital should get defensive about negative reviews. It means upgrading processes and equipment and ensuring the best possible patient experience moving forward based on prior patient feedback.

9. Look into traditional media options

Many hospitals are afraid to invest in external media opportunities: traditional advertising sources like radio, television, billboards, and newspapers. It’s a major investment, and hospital have to be careful about where you spend your money to see the best results.

10.Become an authority in your field

Prospective patients remember hospital services & facilities when hospital is established as an authority in medical specialty. PR (public relations) of hospital strategy should involve reaching out to the appropriate media outlet when you have something to share. It will work as a free advertising for your brand.

Staying up-to-date with medical industry through LinkedIn groups and other online forums is important. People from hospital marketing strategy team should take advantage interview opportunities to reach out people.

Conclusion

A healthcare marketing strategy is an investment. Hospital may have to hire outside help and plan for a larger budget. But in the end, it’s worth it to see your patient volume grow faster than ever before.

Are you looking for ways to increase footfall of your hospital? We can help you in same, below are the hospital marketing services that we offer:-

Competitor Analysis
Packaging / Repackaging of services
Analysis of patient feedback
Promotional Activities
Brand development
Image and Identity development
Profiles, Brochures/Pamphlets
Patient Information Communication
Web Content
Website development
Digital Marketing
Public Relations
Presentations
Reputation Management

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