Health care system generates support for service expansion

Health care system generates support for service expansion

Photo by COD Newsroom / CC BY Situation: Buffalo, New York-based Catholic Health, formed in 1998, is a non-profit healthcare system that provides care to Western New Yorkers across a network of hospitals, primary care centers, imaging centers and other community...
Health care association maintains funding

Health care association maintains funding

Photo by Bromford / CC BY-SA Situation: Washington, D.C.-based American Health Care Association (AHCA) is non-profit national federation of affiliate state health organizations, together representing more than 11,000 non-profit and for-profit nursing facility,...
Helping Iowans save for higher education

Helping Iowans save for higher education

Situation: College Savings Iowa 529 Plan (CSI) is State of Iowa’s tax-advantaged college savings plan. CSI retained Hanser & Associates in 2002 to build awareness and participation in the program via statewide public relations. Strategy & tactics: The firm...
Bank promotes self-sufficiency for low-income Iowans

Bank promotes self-sufficiency for low-income Iowans

Situation: The Federal Reserve noted that the bottom fifth of American households had a median net worth of just $6,400 in 2013; which means those families are only one (or two) paychecks away from financial ruin. Des Moines-based Bankers Trust Company (BTC) resolved...