AvaSure

Our role

Media Relations

The Challenge

Each year, between 700,000 and 1 million patients in the U.S. fall in the hospital, resulting in fractures, internal bleeding or worse — as well as increased healthcare utilization and costs. AvaSure needed to reach Chief Nursing Officers, Nurse Managers and hospital Directors of Patient Quality with the news that the AvaSys remote patient monitoring technology is the only clinically proven intervention that can significantly reduce patient falls as well hospital staffing costs.

Our Solution

Brand Communications implemented a proactive media relations campaign to connect company executives and customers with leading health care trade publications, as well as local publications in individual hospital markets.

Results

Since the engagement began, AvaSure has secured a number of positive media placements in publications such as Becker’s Hospital Review, Healthcare Risk Management, and Nurse.com, as well as television and print publications in Nebraska and Iowa.
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Links:
AvaSure in the News

AORN Foundation

Our Role

Writer

The Challenge

AORN and the AORN Foundation produce annual reports, weekly news articles, and bylined articles that address the importance of registered perioperative nurses in keeping patients safe.

Our Solution

AORN and the AORN Foundation hired Brand Communications to write annual reports, solicitations for donations, and bylined articles for AORN leadership.

Writing Sample

“Every year, millions of people go into surgery in hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and even physicians’ offices. Whether the event is planned or an emergency, no matter the location of care, a perioperative nurse stands beside the patient, advocating for the best possible outcome.”

Links:
Practical Strategies to Prevent Surgical Sharps Injuries
AORN Annual Reports
AORN Foundation Annual Report 2013
4 Must-Haves to Prevent Medication Errors PDF
Practical Strategies to Prevent Sharps Injuries PDF
AORN Foundation Annual Report PDF
AORN Annual Report 2012 PDF
AORN Annual Report 2011 PDF
5 Steps to Improving OR Turnaround Time PDF
5 Hidden Causes of SSIs PDF

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Our Role

Writer, Charting Nursing’s Future, a publication of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The Challenge

Propensity LLC produces Charting Nursing’s Future, a publication that aims to inform hospital executives, state and national lawmakers, nursing and nursing education leaders, and other policy-makers about a wide range of issues relating to the nursing shortage and the role of nurses in building a culture of health.

Our Solution

The publication’s managing editor and contract manager, Propensity, hired Brand Communications to serve as lead writer on Charting Nursing’s Future, a look at nursing from the policy perspective. Launched in 2005 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the policy briefs were designed to educate and inform the public, including legislators, policymakers, hospital executives, and nursing education leaders.

Writing sample

“The United States spends far more on health care than other developed countries yet lags behind in key indicators of the health of its people. Insufficient access prevents many Americans from receiving care, and social, economic, and environmental factors that engender chronic conditions—a major driver of health care costs—go unaddressed. Employers and their employees suffer the consequences of this imbalance, enduring unsustainable increases in the cost of health care.
This landscape is starting to change. Momentum is building for a wide array of worksite-based care delivery and preventive health experiments that target access, wellness, cost-reduction, and safety. Studies of these initiatives’ financial return on investment (ROI) provide widely varying results, but a consensus is emerging that such programs pay off in many ways.”

Links:
Charting Nursing’s Future #25 PDF
Charting Nursing’s Future #26 PDF

Charting Nursing’s Future #28: When Disaster Strikes

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The Next Disaster: Are You Ready?