PR/Marketing Wins National Award

Honored for advertising excellence in the 2009 Aster Awards, Marion General Hospital and ad agency partner, Designs Group, LLC (Marion, IN) received a Bronze recognition, in this year’s competition, for their Marion Health Top 10% Ortho ad campaign.

The award ranks both organizations in the top 16% nationally for healthcare advertising expertise. The Aster Awards, one of the largest competitions of its kind, is hosted by Marketing Healthcare Today and Creative Images, Inc. This elite national program recognizes outstanding healthcare professionals for excellence in their advertising/marketing efforts.

The 2009 Aster Awards consisted of approximately 3,000 entries from across America. Participant’s entries competed against similar-sized organizations in their category. Judging criteria includes creativity, layout and design, functionality, message effectiveness, production quality and overall appeal.

"It’s always nice for our team to be recognized by our industry and peers,” states Ann Vermilion, administrative director of public relations and marketing. “It validates our efforts and provides proof we produce campaigns of national quality.”

Entries in the Aster Awards were judged by a diverse panel of healthcare marketing experts. All winners are posted on the Aster Awards’ website (www.AsterAwards.com), as well as published in Marketing Healthcare Today, a national healthcare marketing magazine.