Stories by PRNEWS

When a crisis hits, small-town hospitals are often too overwhelmed and understaffed to tackle the crisis communications mission at hand. In the heat of a crisis, assembling a relief task force is crucial to emerging… Continued

As a benefit to subscribers looking to bring on their next star employee or seeking a career change, Healthcare PR & Marketing News is rolling out a JobTracker classifieds section within the next month. Your… Continued

Baltimore Sun 501 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, Md. 21202 410/332-6000 For this top market newspaper that reaches approximately 826,000 people in the Baltimore area, the reporters that cover healthcare topics prefer a bare-bones PR approach.… Continued

March 12-14 TIPAAA’s Third Annual Meeting: The IPA Entering the Next Milllenium. Orlando, Fla. 510/569-6561. March 15-19 American Association of Health Plans’s 1998 Marketing and Customer Service Conferences and Best Practices in Health Plan Marketing… Continued

Healthcare organizations saddled with unrecoverable debt should take note of a new payment program at Franklin Memorial Hospital, a 70-bed hospital in Farmington, Maine, that instills dignity in resolving hospital debt for low-income patients. Last… Continued

As a benefit to subscribers looking to bring on their next star employee or seeking a career change, PR NEWS is rolling out a JobTracker classifieds section later this month. Your ad will reach between… Continued

NEW CAMPAIGN: Time Warner Launches Campaign The Houston division of Time Warner [TWX] recently launched the company’s first image campaign in an effort to battle increased competition from direct broadcast satellite systems. Campaign channels include… Continued

New Hires Abernathy MacGregor Frank appointed Ian Campbell EVP and director of the firm’s new Los Angeles office; was senior VP, corporate communications at Great Western Financial Corp., Los Angeles. APCO Associates Inc., Washington, D.C.,… Continued

In the name of both PR and branding, every print publisher with any Web know-how stamps its URL throughout its newspaper, magazine or newsletter. But how many run demographically targeted spots on seven local radio… Continued

March 2: "Cocktails & Conversation," New York Women in Communications Inc. (NYWICI), New York, 212/661-4737. March 2: "Update ’98 Pre-Conference Seminars," Promotion Marketing Association of America, Chicago Hilton & Towers, Chicago, 212/420-1100; http://www.pmaalink.org. March 3-4:… Continued