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Your marketing mandate has grown. Who is accountable for the outcome?

The marketing mandate at regional health systems has grown considerably in five years. Most departments are the size they were a decade ago. This briefing examines why that gap is structural rather than a hiring problem, and what organizations gain by closing it.

12 PAGES · SEPTEMBER 2026

THE BRIEFING

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A 12-page executive briefing on what fragmented marketing ownership costs healthcare organizations, and what changes when accountability is consolidated. The brief is available to you immediately after you complete the form.

The sector data
Published 2026 figures from Chartis, Kaufman Hall, Healthgrades, AMN Healthcare, rater8, and Spencer Stuart, cited throughout.

The four costs of unassigned ownership
Where a vendor roster quietly takes your time, your brand coherence, your measurement, and your institutional knowledge.

The cost of lost continuity
Why average marketing leadership tenure of 4.2 years is the figure most leadership teams have never costed.

A six-condition leadership diagnostic
Assess your own arrangement from inside your organization within a single planning cycle, in a form you can take into a leadership meeting.

Where should we send it?

The download link arrives immediately by email.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND

Research first. Then a framework you can use.

Twelve pages, written for chief executives, chief financial officers, boards, and marketing leadership at regional health systems, community hospitals, and critical access hospitals.

The expanding mandate

What has been added to healthcare marketing in five years, and the sector conditions driving it.

Where ownership goes missing

The same work under two arrangements, and what consolidating accountability returns.

Why continuity compounds

Executive tenure data, and what a leadership transition costs a two-person department.

Six conditions to check

A diagnostic that works equally well on a partnership you are considering and one you already have.

FROM THE FIELD

What changes when one partner owns the outcome

Leanna Swart, Marketing Director at a regional referral health system, describes what changed when her marketing services were consolidated under one accountable relationship, and what a two-person department is able to cover as a result.

WHAT YOU WILL FIND

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Healthcare is a shared endeavor, and so is the work of telling its story well. When your brand advances, your patients, your providers, and your community advance with it.

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