Healthcare · Fractional CMO · Brand Architecture · Multi-Division Platform
Pike Medical Consultants
Most healthcare marketing problems look like marketing problems.
The strategic frame I applied across this engagement was to treat Pike Medical as a platform, not a portfolio. Signal: 45% patient growth over 3 years
45% patient
growth over 3 years
Positive ROI
maintained
Multi-division brand
architecture built from scratch
This build supports Website Strategy & Rebuilds
Where the platform strategy showed up in the field
Division proof inside this healthcare platform
Why this mattered
Most healthcare marketing problems look like marketing problems. This one was actually a structural problem.
Pike Medical Consultants, founded in 2007 by Dr. James D. Pike, had grown into a multi-division organization covering urgent care, primary care, geriatric care, pulmonary care, occupational health, bone health, and life counseling. Each division had its own patient-facing experience — they were experiences, plural, not a system.
Urgentcareindy.com, primarycareindy.com, and pikemedical.com existed as separate digital properties with separate user journeys, separate analytics, and separate brand authority. A patient who came in through urgent care wasn't being carried into primary care. The parent brand was operating as a passive corporate brochure rather than the connective tissue of a healthcare platform.
Meanwhile, the marketing function itself needed building. There was no organized strategy, no campaign infrastructure, no content system, no PR cadence, no business development framework for the employer-facing service lines.
What got rebuilt
Parent Brand Architecture & Corporate Website
Developed and directed the corporate Pike Medical digital presence — the umbrella brand that had to hold five divisions together, communicate mission and values, route users to the right care model, and support business development for employer-facing services.
Multi-Division Digital Ecosystem
Directed the redesign and restructuring of all three primary company websites — pikemedical.com, urgentcareindy.com, and primarycareindy.com — improving visual consistency, traffic performance, and information architecture across the ecosystem.
Brand Identity & Awareness
Developed brand-awareness strategy and materials across the full Pike Medical ecosystem — ensuring that each division's visual identity and messaging felt like part of the same organizational family while serving the distinct needs of their respective patient populations.
Advertising & Paid Patient Acquisition
Managed paid advertising across search and display channels for patient acquisition — Google Ads, geo-targeting, and audience segmentation aligned to the specific demand profiles of urgent care vs. primary care vs. occupational health.
Employer-Facing Business Development
Built out the marketing infrastructure for Pike Medical's occupational health service line — pre-employment physicals, drug and alcohol screening, fit-for-duty exams, workers' comp support, and employer wellness programs.
Budget Planning, Campaign Reporting & Ongoing Optimization
Managed the marketing budget and campaign reporting function — translating spend into measurable outcomes and giving leadership the visibility to make confident growth decisions.
Interface surfaces
Website and platform screens
Supporting evidence
Interface surfaces, campaign creative, and product documentation from the engagement.
Website and platform screens
Campaign creative
Results and operating impact
45% growth in patient visits over three years, achieved while maintaining positive ROI on every marketing initiative. That figure represents the compounding effect of a coherent strategy applied consistently — not a single campaign win.
The deeper outcome was organizational. Pike Medical ended the engagement with a functioning marketing infrastructure, a parent brand that communicated what it actually was, a multi-division digital ecosystem that worked together rather than against itself, and a set of marketing tools and frameworks that could support continued growth beyond the engagement.
If you're running a multi-location practice, a growing healthcare group, or any service business where multiple divisions are operating without a coherent parent-brand strategy, you're leaving patient lifetime value and organizational credibility on the table. I build the infrastructure that holds it together. That's what I build.
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