As a significant driver of patient acquisition and downstream revenue, emergency services are regularly promoted by hospital systems. It is customary among the hospitals to utilize outdoor billboards as a primary vehicle for ER campaigns. Instead of simply refreshing the billboard creative, we seized the opportunity to generate a division-wide ER campaign that lends itself to increased engagement among potential patients.

99.9% of all people are not in need of an ER when they view ER marketing. Hospitals that build trusting relationships with target audiences by being relevant in their daily lives, will most likely be their first choice in an emergency.

Leveraging the popularity of Life Hacks, we created HealthyERHacks.com – a division-wide ER website that provides tips, tricks and little-known remedies to help with a range of health problems from a paper cut to emergencies. The website provides a full page of content per Hack, the closest HCA North Florida hospital ER with wait time, a Hack search feature and a text and email subscription sign-up option. A robust, converged awareness strategy drives traffic to the website, utilizing earned, owned and paid digital media. Hacks are posted twice per week to hospital social pages and are received by email and text-message subscribers.

During its first 12-month run, the campaign generated 20,331,266 campaign impressions, 79,179 website page views and 58,178 visits to the website. The average website bounce rate was 5.18% (50% is industry average). The continuous, high engagement ensures top-of-mind awareness for the HCA North Florida hospital ERs.