St. Christopher's Hospital Recognized for Excellence in Healthcare Marketing and Advertising

St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children has received national and international recognition in two healthcare marketing and advertising competitions.

St. Christopher’s received a Bronze Award for the hospital’s newly redesigned website (www.stchristophershospital.com) in the annual Aster Awards, a prestigious international medical marketing awards program recognizing excellence in healthcare marketing and advertising.

Entries are judged by a panel of design and healthcare marketing professionals on creativity, layout/design, typography, production, quality and overall effectiveness.

St. Christopher’s also received three awards in the 27th Annual Healthcare Advertising Awards, sponsored by Healthcare Marketing Report. More than 4,000 entries were received in this year’s competition.

St. Christopher’s received Merit Awards for its external quarterly physician newsletter, In the Forefront, co-created by SHM Publishing; redesigned website (www.stchristopershospital.com), developed by Osiris Group; and a TV commercial, produced by Out of the Blue Productions.

A national panel of judges evaluated the entries based on creativity, quality, message effectiveness, consumer appeal, graphic design and overall impact.

The Healthcare Advertising Awards is one of the oldest, largest and most widely respected healthcare advertising awards competition. Healthcare Marketing Report is a leading publication covering all aspects of healthcare marketing, advertising and strategic business development.

Since 1875, St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children has been providing exceptional patient care and advancing new pediatric treatments through research and innovation. Through affiliations with Drexel University College of Medicine and Temple University School of Medicine, St. Christopher’s is a teaching hospital helping to train the next generation of professionals in pediatric medicine.

The 189-bed hospital is committed to delivering high quality family- and patient-centered care to children from throughout the Philadelphia area and around the world. Its highly acclaimed programs include its Level I Pediatric Trauma Center; Level IIIC NICU, which is the highest NICU designation; Heart Center, Oncology/Transplant; as well as its Burn Center, which is the only dedicated pediatric burn center in the area. In 2009, St. Christopher’s achieved Magnet status, which is one of the nation's highest forms of recognition for nursing excellence, and numerous St. Chris physicians were recognized in regional publications as being “Top Docs” in their fields.

To learn more about St. Christopher’s, visit www.stchristophershospital.com. St. Christopher’s can also be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/StChrisHospital or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/stchrishospital.

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