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Brighten your hospital walls without posters or flyers...

Taking the "institutional" feel out of hospitals isn't easy. Hospitals are not designed to be resorts. They are designed to function. "Decor" is a capital expense, and, as such, it usual consists of old, crappy furniture or framed pictures of the institution itself. Walls are bare, dinged or maybe even covered by flyers and posters.

No more!

Put on your HGTV hats, and check this out: This week, we formally introduced our new Cancer Care campaign, which included a face-lift for the walls in the center itself. It wasn't paint or wallpaper, but rather vinyl clings on a number of the walls that both introduced the branding and brightened up a center whose patients can really benefit from vibrant colors. Think "Fatheads" or wall stickers that your kids may have, only bigger and better.

But now comes the best part--all of the wall graphics (15 in total) were produced and installed for under $10,000. The effect: The first day they were installed, a patient receiving treatment said that the words and images were how she was "going to get through treatment."

Done and done.

Here are a few samples:

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Comments (6)

Are you able to share the name of the vendor who provided this product to you? Thank you!

Jay Shiffler:

Josh, what's the name of the vendor?

Hi Jay:
We had our ad agency, HBG, do the creative, then a company called C2 in Chicago produced & installed the graphics. They were so precise in their installation. I'd imagine that any decent graphics company could produce these near you, though! Let me know if this helps.
Josh

If all hospital walls were like that--- I wouldn't mind staying. These are great!

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Josh McColough is the manager of public affairs at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, Ill. He has been in health care marketing/PR for nearly eight years now. He's done everything from grow social media and web marketing programs to chase tardy hospital parade floats down residential streets while in flip-flops. McColough earned an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and continues to write and teach English Composition at the College of Lake County part-time.

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