JTWack & Company conducts market research and consulting projects for hospitals, physician practices, and managed care companies throughout the United States. The practice has experience in virtually all customer segments in health care, including patients, members, managers, and professionals. Jeff’s knowledge of the health care sector is suggested by the following highlights:

  • Since 1988, Jeff Wack has held an adjunct faculty position at Yale University where he designed and taught one of the country’s first health care Marketing graduate courses.
  • Served as acting Director of Strategic Marketing at Yale-New Haven Hospital for two years.
  • Lead author on the chapter "Contemporary Marketing in health care" that appears in The Yale Management Guide for Physicians published by John Wiley & Sons.
  • JTWack & Company has received numerous awards for its work in health care, including:
    • The Touchstone (Juried competition)
      Awarded by the American Hospital Association
      For research and planning.
    • An EFFIE
      Awarded by the New York Chapter of the American Marketing Association
      For the use of research in the design and evaluation of a print campaign done by McCann-Erickson for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital.

Health care clients have retained the firm for more than one hundred projects that address the following marketing issues and buyers:

Marketing issues

  • Patient/member satisfaction
  • Image and positioning research
  • Communications effectiveness
  • Advertising development
  • Advertising tracking
  • Service/product line research
  • Site analysis
  • Medical services usage
  • Employee attitudes and work climate
  • Service benchmarking
  • Women’s health
  • Product design
  • Consumer preferences and choice modeling
  • Market segmentation

Buyers

  • Benefits managers
  • Health insurance brokers and consultants
  • Discharge planners
  • Medicare/Medicaid-insured individuals
  • Potential/current/recent patients and members
  • Office practice managers
  • Directors of medical groups
  • Special patient populations

ial List of Health Care Clients

  • Aetna Health Plans (Hartford, CT)
  • Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (North Haven, CT)
  • Bridgeport Hospital (Bridgeport, CT)
  • CentraHealth (Lynchburg VA)
  • Community Health Care Plan (New Haven, CT)
  • ConnectiCare (Farmington, CT)
  • Gaylord Hospital (Wallingford, CT)
  • Greenwich Hospital (Greenwich, CT)
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital (New York, NY)
  • Middlesex Memorial Hospital (Middletown, CT)
  • New Britain General Hospital (New Britain, CT)
  • Physicians Health Services (now HealthNet) (Trumbull, CT)
  • Saint Francis Hospital (Hartford, CT)
  • Saint Vincent’s Medical Center (Bridgeport, CT)
  • University of Kentucky Medical Center (KY)
  • Winthrop-University Hospital (Long Island, NY)
  • Yale Medical Group (New Haven, CT)
  • Yale-New Haven Hospital (New Haven, CT)
  • Yale School of Medicine (New Haven, CT)

 

“Dr. Jeffery Wack is one of the real gurus in independent school marketing.”
Leo Marshall, Director of Admission
The Webb Schools (Claremont, CA)
The Scoop e-Newsletter

 


“The snake oil salesman is a powerful image to overcome as one strives to educate health care managers and physicians about contemporary marketing.”


Please contact us to learn more about how JTWack & Company can help you manage your markets more effectively through market research, consulting, and professional development. Click here to see a partial list of clients.

 

 


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