Multi-location healthcare operators face a distinct set of operating challenges: local digital visibility, patient acquisition cost, recall lifecycle, and the brand coherence to compete at scale.
Health care practice groups operate like multi-location consumer businesses but are measured like healthcare organizations. Patient acquisition cost, recall rate, and case acceptance are the numbers that matter, not impressions or follower counts.
Most practice groups have grown their marketing alongside their locations: adding tactics as they added chairs. The result is a fragmented stack, inconsistent brand execution across locations, and no attribution that connects spend to seated patients.
Common problems we see:
Full-funnel patient acquisition across local search, paid, and organic. Recall lifecycle built in CRM. CAC tracked to the seated appointment, not the click.
Local search infrastructure for multi-location groups: GBP management, location-specific content, and the technical SEO that determines which location shows up for which patient.
Practice management system connected to marketing and communications stack. Patient data that flows both directions: acquisition into PMS, recall triggers out of PMS.
Attribution modeling that connects marketing spend to the booked, seated, and treated patient. CAC by channel, LTV by acquisition source.
Saberton runs a multi-location denture clinic group. There was no CRM, no attribution from spend to a seated patient, and revenue had been flat for three years. We ran the marketing diagnostic, delivered the rebrand, CRM and full-funnel tracking, then ran a second diagnostic that widened the engagement from marketing into operations.
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It requires integration. We connect the marketing stack to the PMS, typically via Zapier or a direct API, so the patient record includes acquisition source from the first touchpoint. Once it's in place, CAC by channel is a report, not a manual calculation.
Yes. Multi-location local SEO is one of the areas we've systematized. We manage GBP at scale, build location-specific content templates your team can maintain, and run the citation and review infrastructure that affects local pack rankings.
Sometimes the agency is executing well against a brief that isn't tied to the outcomes that matter. Where the agency is strong, we work above them as the operating layer. Where they aren't, we bring the work in.
The Operating Assessment tells you where your patient acquisition funnel is losing money and what closing those gaps is worth.
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