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Healthcare Brand Strategy & Social Media Consulting

Healthcare marketing has real constraints — compliance, consent, institutional review. Most teams respond by playing it safe. I help them perform within those guardrails instead.

The Reality

Constraints Aren’t the Problem

HIPAA. Institutional review boards. Patient consent workflows. Multi-stakeholder approvals that can stretch a single post into a two-week process. Healthcare marketing operates inside real constraints that most agencies and consultants don’t understand.

The response is usually to play it so safe that the content becomes invisible. But compliance and performance aren’t in tension — the tension is a symptom of a program that wasn’t designed for action in the first place.

The Experience

Enterprise Healthcare, Not Agency Theory

I’ve led content and brand strategy inside two of Southern California’s top health systems — Hoag and City of Hope. Not as an outside vendor, but embedded in the teams doing the work every day.

That means I know what it takes to get a physician to approve a patient story. I know how to build pre-approved content templates that maintain compliance without killing creative momentum. And I know how to present social performance to a C-suite that doesn’t speak in impressions.

The Difference

Content Systems, Not Just Content

Most healthcare marketing teams don’t need more content. They need the infrastructure to make the content they produce work harder: editorial governance, audience segmentation, performance measurement tied to business outcomes, and workflows designed for the approval realities of healthcare.

I build the systems that turn a clear strategy into a publishing discipline — one that performs within compliance, scales without adding headcount, and gives leadership the data they need to see social as a strategic channel.

What I Deliver

Services for Healthcare

Social Strategy & Governance

Enterprise social programs with editorial standards, approval workflows, and performance measurement built for healthcare.

Content Systems & Editorial Infrastructure

Frameworks that turn strategy into a publishing discipline your team can actually run without burning out.

Brand Positioning

Narrative architecture that bridges clinical credibility with human storytelling across patient, community, and referral audiences.

Executive Reporting

Dashboards and reporting frameworks that connect content performance to the business outcomes leadership cares about.

Proof

See It in Action

City of Hope →
+41% impressions · +223% link clicks · +58% reach
Hoag →
+169% impressions/post · −70% volume · +154% engagement
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Common Questions

Healthcare Brand Strategy & Content FAQ

How do you handle HIPAA and compliance in healthcare content?+
Compliance is built into the content system from the start — not applied as a filter after the fact. That means pre-approved content templates, consent-ready storytelling frameworks, and workflows designed around institutional review timelines so nothing stalls at the approval stage.
Can healthcare social media actually drive business results?+
Yes, when the program is designed for performance within compliance guardrails. At City of Hope, this approach produced +41% impressions and +223% link clicks. At Hoag, it drove +169% impressions per post while reducing volume by 70%. The key is editorial governance, not volume.
What makes your healthcare experience different from an agency?+
I’ve led content and brand strategy inside two of Southern California’s top health systems — Hoag and City of Hope. Not as an outside vendor, but embedded in the teams doing the work. That means I understand physician approval workflows, patient consent processes, and how to present social performance to a C-suite that doesn’t speak in impressions.

Need a strategist who understands healthcare from the inside?

Let's talk about what a real content program looks like within the constraints you're working with.

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