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This series features SHSMD member stories and resources in an effort to provide insight into how strategists are helping their organizations manage this unprecedented crisis.

SHSMD members play an integral role in effectively communicating information while providing leadership during a crisis.

Rising Above: How to Survive When Your Community is Rocked by Crisis   When Tragedy Strikes Will You Be Prepared: Insights and Stories from Orlando Health   Ditching the Silos: Developing a Crisis Communication Plan that Works Across a Health Care System   Keep Calm: How to Reposition Alarmist Language to Calm and Reassure Audiences

In this webinar, panelists will share how their organizations have adapted their patient access procedures to ensure a safe environment for delivering care. They’ll address how they’re navigating patients to alternative care settings, like telehealth, and are providing their communities vital, timely information about receiving care.

Renown Health shares their COVID-19 communications plan and key materials put in place by the Marketing & Communications team.

At a time when confidence of patients returning to care is essential, the endorsement of their primary/family physician plays a critical role in re-energizing the elective care flow. Through specific strategic marketing programming, independent hospitals can increase the percentage of referrals sent to their service line offerings. We will focus on the four key pillars in developing a sustainable referral network.

As the COVID-19 outbreak evolves, hospitals and health systems know our patients and communities are increasingly concerned whether and how the virus is spreading in communities.

Learn how hospitals and health systems successfully used telehealth to decrease transfers, time spent in the ICU, average cost of care and patient travel time, greatly improving the value of the care they deliver. This free report also offers expert advice on how to start and sustain a telehealth strategy.

Hospitals and health systems are leading exciting initiatives to encourage healthy behaviors and improve the health of individuals and communities. Health behaviors are individual choices that are affected by socio-economic factors and the physical environment. Investing in promoting positive health behaviors can make a substantial impact in improving patient and community health outcomes and adding value.

The PowerPoint presentation, Futurescan 2020, features highlights from the latest edition of Futurescan, one of the industry's most respected health care trends forecasts. Ready for immediate use at your organization, you can employ this presentation tool for staff, leadership or boards.

Today's marketers are using advanced technology and strategies to improve consumer acquisition, engagement and retention. But, how do we prove marketing effectiveness while becoming strategic business partners focused on growth goals? The answer lies in five marketing metrics.

Forward-thinking healthcare organizations realize that successful digital front door platforms offer a single, mobile access point for multiple touchpoints in the patient’s journey. Learn the three transaction-ready features required for success in this white paper.

Keeping you at the forefront today for the best patient-friendly solution building tomorrow, SHSMD has developed a resource digest on the hot trend of retail health.

This online SHSMD course will present a staged process that will help participants learn how to: Determine your organization’s needs and how various agency models can answer them; Identify and source potential partners; Develop, field and assess RFI's and RFP's, and position your search team for success; Evaluate RFP submissions, manage the finalist evaluation process; and Onboard your new partner and ground your new relationship to foster and promote a successful partnership

By attending this free program, you will learn gender-affirming terms and practices, become familiar with the challenges embedded in the transgender patient experience and develop a vision for shifting your organization’s culture towards more robust inclusion.

Transformation is more than change; it is a change that reshapes entire organizations and sectors. The same forces that transformed retail, movies, books, music and the workplace are exerting their power on hospitals and health systems. Health care executives who have led successful transformation shared their stories and advice.

Futurescan 2020–2025 explores key forces that are transforming the future of health care. The annual publication features the expertise and perspectives of thought leaders in the field on important topics.

Panelists discuss the need to harness the benefits of systemness, balance the interplay between centralized and local decision making, create a common organizational culture and improve the consumer experience.

Join renowned futurist Ian Morrison, Ph.D. on February 5, 2020 for a webinar on the latest edition of SHSMD's annual guide to trends in the field as he summarizes Futurescan articles written by thought leaders on key topics.

Catch what you missed in Nashville by signing up for the 2019 SHSMD Connections Virtual Conference for just $395. Here are three FREE PREVIEWS of the more than 70 session recordings available to you when you sign up.