Health Care Communicators' Marketing/Public Relations Efforts Honored in Statewide Competition

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The Kansas Hospital Association looks forward to celebrating National Hospital Week next week, May 11-17. A toolkit of resources is available to assist members in their hospital week celebrations. The assets are online in the Hospital Week Toolkit folder. They include videos, social media posts, frames, a media release and more. AHA also resources hospitals can use.

Critical Marketing: KHSC Introductory Webinar - May 20

Join Kansas Health Service Corporation on Tuesday, May 20 at 10 a.m. featuring Critical Marketing, a KHSC partner dedicated to helping Critical Access Hospitals stretch their marketing budgets, build community trust, and improve health education.

Healthworks Board Meeting - May 22

KHA established a foundation for it's members in 1969 and redesigned it in 1998 as a 501(c)3 organization. Healthworks, previously the Kansas Hospital Education and Research Foundation, is funded through contributions, grants and educational fees.

KHSC Board Meeting - May 27

KHSC is a wholly owned subsidiary of KHA. Therefore, a secondary objective of KHSC is to support KHA in meeting its mission to serve hospitals. Its mission is to provide enhanced value to KHA members through evaluation and endorsement of selected vendors of services needed by the KHA membership. KHSC will be a valuable resource to Kansas health care facilities and KHA as they serve their constituents.

KHA Board Retreat - May 28-May 30

The Kansas Hospital Association has a 21-member board of directors. They meet at least five times a year. Each board member holds three-year terms, with a two-term limit. The board has a composition of members from all geographic areas of Kansas all sizes and types of member hospitals are represented. The board also includes two hospital trustees and two physician members. Other participants include American Hospital Association delegate.

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Health Care Communicators' Marketing/Public Relations Efforts Honored in Statewide Competition

Emerald Award Logo (May 2, 2025) – Kansas hospitals, health systems and health care organizations were recently recognized for excellence in public relations and marketing efforts by the Kansas Association of Health Care Communicators through its Emerald Awards competition.

Emerald Awards are given annually to Kansas hospitals, health systems and health care organizations that excel in communications, special events, advertising and other categories. Three marketing professionals from Oregon, Georgia and Arizona, with extensive experience in health care marketing, evaluated this year's 58 entries for planning and research, implementation, cost effectiveness and results.

The 2025 Emerald Awards were presented at the Kansas Association of Health Care Communicators Spring Conference on April 25 in Newton.

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In addition to the 21 Emerald Awards and 22 Certificates of Merit presented this year, judges selected one entry as Best of Show. This year's Best of Show winner was "Say Yes to Your Health," by the NMC Health marketing team in Newton. This year-long campaign from NMC Health aimed to educate the community about the importance of preventive care, specifically annual wellness checks and immunizations, as key steps toward living longer, healthier lives.

A media release highlighting all the awards in their respective categories was sent to statewide media earlier this week. We encourage KAHCC members to highlight these accomplishments in their newsletters and share them with local media.
--Cindy Samuelson

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