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Resilient Power in Home Healthcare

Scott Public Relations

The changing climate and resultant increase in natural disaster events is driving home how crucial energy is for healthcare. Hospitals and physicians’ offices face obvious problems when intense heat or storms knock the power out, but there are less obvious victims in those who are switching to home healthcare. At least 2.5

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Resilient Power in Home Healthcare

Scott Public Relations

The changing climate and resultant increase in natural disaster events is driving home how crucial energy is for healthcare. Hospitals and physicians’ offices face obvious problems when intense heat or storms knock the power out, but there are less obvious victims in those who are switching to home healthcare. At least 2.5

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The Challenges for Health Care Communicators as a New Normal Emerges From the COVID-19 Crisis

PRSay

“In April, when the American Heart Association and EMS agencies announced a huge drop in calls and admissions for heart attack and stroke around the country, we informed our patients and the community about the importance of seeking emergency help immediately,” she said. Smith said a key component of the campaign is generating earned media.

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The journey from lockdown

Stephen Waddington

In the UK a three day simulation exercise called Exercise Cygnus took place in 2016 to consider the potential impact of a pandemic influenza outbreak. It’s an area of huge international effort among healthcare providers. Adapting This is an interesting area in which some organisations have shown strong leadership.

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Homebound? Turn Your Kids into Smart Voters

Scott Public Relations

According to a just released study by the Knight Foundation, more than 100 million Americans did not vote in the 2016 election, representing 43% of the eligible voting-age population. Download our e-book, “ The C-Suite Asks, We Answer: The Top 6 Questions About Healthcare PR.”. Why is this important? Thanks for reading.

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How to Use Your Company’s Culture to Get Media Coverage

Cision

Generating brand awareness through earned media doesn’t always have to revolve around your products, services, data or thought leadership. By pitching thought leadership to outlets before publishing on your own channels, you can turn owned media into earned media.

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This Is Our Lane: Why Gun Control is a Health Issue

Scott Public Relations

Or the emotional damage to the healthcare providers who deal with physical damage caused by one human to others. These are human (beings) who are dying, members of our community who are dying in senseless tragedies and we can do something about that.”. 1,637 children were killed by guns in 2016. Absolutely.