Healthcare · Multi-Location Growth · Marketing Operations · Digital Systems
Building the marketing system while the organization doubled in size.
From 2017 to 2024 I led marketing and events at Orthopaedic Rehab Specialists, a physical therapy organization. The organization grew from six locations to twelve during my seven years leading marketing and events. My responsibility was to make sure marketing, communication and digital systems were capable of supporting that growth.
Growth creates complexity
Every new location multiplies the marketing surface: more communities, more clinicians, more referral relationships, more events, more content, more coordination. I was working inside the organization, not completing a one-time outside project.
The company kept treating patients while the systems supporting its growth had to keep improving. That meant building and rebuilding in place, without interrupting the work of the clinics.
The work
- Multi-location marketing across six, then twelve, communities
- Four or more digital properties built and managed
- Content systems, including approximately 500 videos
- Patient storytelling and public relations
- Recruiting support during sustained growth
- Community events, sponsorships and media relationships
- Coordination across executives, clinicians, administrative teams, vendors, sponsors and community organizations
Communicating through uncertainty
Two of those clinic openings landed in late 2020, which meant communicating clearly at a time when nobody was certain of anything. That period taught me more about clear communication than any campaign before it.
Why this matters for AI work now
“AI did not teach me how businesses work. It gave me new tools for work I already understood.” Seven years inside a growing healthcare organization is where much of that understanding comes from: real operations, real staff, real patients and real constraints.
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