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Hospital marketing agency

Hospital marketing that turns OPD enquiries into admissions.

From Chennai, for multi-speciality hospitals across India: ads by speciality in NMC-safe copy, every call tracked, a Monday cost-per-admission report.
Where your patients come from

The ads that bring patients to your hospital

As a hospital marketing agency, we run the three ad channels where patients decide: Google Ads for people searching “knee replacement in Chennai” today, Facebook and Instagram for families near you before they need a doctor, and YouTube for patients who want a procedure explained. Every call and WhatsApp is routed to your appointment desk and tracked.

Patients searching for a treatment

Google Ads

  • Search ads
  • Call ads
  • Location assets
  • Performance Max

Ads on searches like “knee replacement hospital in Chennai” and “cardiologist near Velachery”, by speciality and area, with a call button that rings your appointment desk. Copy stays factual: departments, surgeons’ qualifications, cashless insurers, OPD timings, emergency hours.

Reaches
Planned-surgery patientsFamilies nearbyInternational patients
We judge it by
Cost per admission by speciality, from your HIS
How we run Google Ads
knee replacement hospital in chennai AllMapsImagesNews Sponsored YYour hospitalyourhospital.in › orthopaedics Knee Replacement · Orthopaedics Department Orthopaedic surgeons, physiotherapy and cashless insurance. See OPD timings and book a consultation. Our doctorsInsurance & TPALocationBook OPD slotCall

Families nearby, before they need you

Facebook & Instagram ads

  • Lead form ads
  • Click-to-WhatsApp ads
  • Reels ads
  • Location targeting

Health-check and camp ads for families within reach of the hospital, Reels that explain a procedure and its recovery, and Click-to-WhatsApp for an OPD slot. Copy never implies the viewer’s condition: Meta allows “New diabetes treatment available”, not “Do you have diabetes?”.

Reaches
Families nearbyPlanned-surgery patientsInternational patients
We judge it by
Cost per admission by campaign, from your HIS
How we run Facebook & Instagram ads
YYour hospitalSponsored Full-body health check at our multi-speciality hospital in Velachery. Reports reviewed by a physician. Velachery, ChennaiA health check for the whole family Health check · physician reviewBook Now Book a health check NamePhone numberWho is it for?Preferred day Submit

Patients who want it explained

YouTube ads

  • Skippable ads
  • Shorts ads
  • Ads by country

Explainers for planned procedures: what a knee replacement involves, recovery at home, the cashless paperwork. In India by area, abroad by country for international patients. Viewers can skip after 5 seconds (YouTube Help), so the first 5 seconds answer the question.

Reaches
Planned-surgery patientsInternational patients
We judge it by
Cost per admission not views
How we run YouTube ads
Patient guideKnee replacement: what recovery looks like Sponsored0:05 Skip Y Orthopaedics at your hospitalSponsored · yourhospital.in Learn more Knee pain: when is surgery the answer?
Sound familiar?

Why aren’t your beds filling?

OPD full, IPD empty.

Saturday’s OPD was packed and surgery was advised. The families booked it at the chain hospital on OMR; ward B stays half empty.

Calls that ring out.

A patient taps your number on Google Maps. The line is busy, the WhatsApp reply comes the next day, and he books elsewhere.

Your old ads are now risky.

“Best heart hospital, 100% success” worked once. NMC’s October 2026 guidelines bar it, and hiring an agency doesn’t move the responsibility off you.

Targeting strategy

Who we target, and how we reach them

We start from your specialities and your spare beds, not from the ad platform. A knee replacement, a child’s fever and a health check have different patients, who search, scroll and travel differently. So each gets its own targeting and message, and Google’s and Meta’s health-ad rules decide which signals we may use.

Knee, heart, spine and cancer care

Planned-surgery patients

Insured or self-pay families comparing hospitals for a planned procedure, a son or daughter deciding for a parent.

What they seeThe surgeon’s qualifications, the procedure explained, the insurers you accept, and an OPD slot.

How we find them
  • Searches like “knee replacement in Chennai”
  • Searches with “cost” and “cashless”
  • Within travel distance of your hospital
  • Districts your patients already come from
Where

OPD consultations, scans and lab tests

Families nearby

Families within a short drive who need a specialist this week: a child’s fever, a parent’s blood pressure.

What they seeDoctor timings, the department, directions, and a slot booked on WhatsApp.

How we find them
  • Searches like “paediatrician near me”
  • People within a few kilometres
  • Maps searches for your specialities
  • Fever season and monsoon timing
Where

Health checks and corporate tie-ups

Employers and HR

HR and admin heads at offices, factories and IT parks near you, choosing health checks and cashless tie-ups.

What they seeHealth-check packages, camp dates and one direct contact for HR.

How we find them
  • HR and admin job titles
  • Companies in your catchment
  • Industrial estates and IT parks nearby
Where

Planned surgery, cancer and transplant care

International patients

Patients and families in Bangladesh, the Gulf, Iraq and East Africa travelling to India for treatment.

What they seeThe treatment explained in Bengali, Arabic or English, the visa steps, and a WhatsApp coordinator.

How we find them
  • Country targeting where your patients come from
  • Searches like “heart surgery in India”
  • WhatsApp and calls in their hours
Where

Each admission tells us where to spend next. Each Monday, admissions by source show which searches, areas and specialities fill beds. Budget moves there; patient data stays in your HIS.

What we’d run

What we’d run for your hospital

Fill the specialities with spare beds.

We start where beds are empty and procedures are planned: orthopaedics, cardiology, oncology, whatever your occupancy sheet shows. Search ads by procedure and area, YouTube explainers, a page per procedure with its surgeons and insurers, and budget moved weekly toward admissions.

  • Campaigns by speciality and procedure
  • A page per procedure, with surgeons and insurers
  • Procedure explainers on YouTube
  • Weekly cost per admission by speciality
How we fix the appointment desk

How more enquiries become admissions

Speed, then follow-up. Every ad call and WhatsApp is answered at once with doctor timings and an OPD slot, missed calls go on a callback list, and surgery-advised patients get a follow-up. Your desk marks visits and admissions in the HIS against the ad, so budget moves to specialities that fill beds.

Ad, call, reply, OPD visit, admission. Then the budget follows the admissions.
  1. The ad brings a call or a chat

    A call, a WhatsApp or a form, from Google, Facebook, Instagram or YouTube, tagged with the ad it came from.

  2. An answer at once

    WhatsApp sends doctor timings and OPD slots automatically; missed calls go on a callback list for your desk. Across industries, a Harvard Business Review study (2011) found leads contacted within an hour nearly seven times likelier to qualify.

  3. The OPD slot is booked

    The patient picks a slot; a reminder and the location pin go out the day before.

  4. The visit and admission are marked

    Your desk marks the OPD visit, and any admission, in the HIS with its source. Admissions are what we count.

  5. The budget follows admissions

    Each week, budget moves to the searches, areas and specialities whose patients were admitted. Patient lists stay in your HIS: Google’s health-ad rules bar uploading them for targeting anyway.

What we report every Monday

The number we report: cost per admission

Cost per admission is your ad spend divided by the admissions your HIS marks as coming from the ads, by speciality. Every Monday it comes with OPD slots booked, OPD visits and your OPD-to-IPD conversion by speciality. Cost per lead looks good on cheap forms; cost per admission shows what filled beds.

The number

Cost per admission

What your ads cost for each patient admitted.

Ad spendAdmissions in your HIS

Every Monday · from your HIS

Read from

  • Your HIS. Or your appointment system: which enquiries came to the OPD and which were admitted, by source.
  • Google Ads. Spend by campaign, speciality and area.
  • Meta. Spend by campaign, across Facebook and Instagram.
  • GA4. Calls, forms and WhatsApp taps: the early signal before the OPD visit.
Ad spend ÷ admissions, week by week, by speciality.
  • Why not cost per lead?

    A cheap lead that never reaches the OPD fills no bed.

  • Why not pay us per patient?

    The NMC guidelines bar paying an agency per patient. Our fee is fixed.

Let’s fill your OPD slots and beds.

Platforms, referrals or your own ads

Should you rely on Practo and referral doctors?

Use them, don’t depend on them. On doctor platforms and listings, your doctors sit beside other hospitals’ doctors, and the NMC guidelines bar paid ranking of doctors and referral fees. Your own ads bring patients only you get, tracked in your HIS to the admission.

  • Doctor platforms, listings

    Who gets patients
    You, or the hospital listed beside you
    What you pay
    A listing or ad package
  • Referral doctors

    Who gets patients
    You, when the doctor sends them
    What you pay
    No referral fee: the NMC bars it
  • Your own ads, with us

    Who gets patients
    Only you, tracked in your HIS
    What you pay
    Ad spend plus a fixed fee
NMC rules and your ads

What can a hospital advertise under NMC rules?

Only factual, verifiable information: departments, facilities, doctors’ qualifications, accreditation, charges. Under the NMC guidelines of 6 October 2026, superiority claims, promises of cure, inducing discounts, fake reviews and promotional doctor portraits are out, an agency can’t be paid per patient, and the hospital stays responsible for ads it commissions.

What changes for a hospital’s ads, rule by rule, with the source of each
What it means for your adsSource
NMC: what you may sayName, location, contact, departments, facilities, equipment, services, emergency services, accreditation and charges; a doctor directory with qualifications, registration and timings.NMC guidelines of 6 October 2026, reported by Medical Dialogues
NMC: what you may notSolicitation, “best” or “No. 1” claims, promises of cure or outcome, discounts that push consultations, fake reviews or ratings, promotional portraits of a doctor, identifiable patient details.NMC guidelines of 6 October 2026, reported by Medical Dialogues
NMC: your agencyIts pay can’t be linked to procuring or referring individual patients, and the hospital stays responsible for content it commissions or knowingly permits, even through an agency.NMC guidelines of 6 October 2026, reported by Medical Dialogues
Google AdsHealth is a sensitive category: no remarketing (“Your data” segments), Customer Match or lookalikes. In India, no prescription-drug ads.Google Ads policies: personalised advertising; healthcare and medicines (India)
MetaNo copy that asserts or implies a viewer’s health: “New diabetes treatment available” is allowed, “Do you have diabetes?” is not.Meta Advertising Standards: personal attributes
First 90 days

Your first 90 days, week by week.

  1. Weeks 1–2Audit

    We look at your calls, chats and HIS.

    Desk and ads audit0 of 4 checks
    • Ads, search terms and pages
    • How fast calls and chats get a reply
    • Source of each OPD visit in the HIS
    • Every ad checked against NMC rules
  2. Weeks 3–4Build

    We set up the appointment desk.

    Build0 of 4 live
    • A page per speciality and procedure
    • WhatsApp replies and OPD slots
    • A source field in the HIS
    • Call tracking on every ad
  3. Month 2Launch

    We go live, then learn.

    Launch0 of 3 steps
    • Your approval on every creative
    • Google, Meta and YouTube live
    • First admissions marked by source
  4. Month 3Scale

    We scale what fills beds.

    Weekly routine0 of 3 jobs
    • Budget to the ads that admit
    • Creative and page tests
    • Monday report from your HIS
FAQ

Questions about hospital marketing in India

OPD and admissions

A hospital marketing agency brings patients to your OPD and your beds: Google Ads for people searching a treatment, a Google Maps profile per speciality, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube ads, speciality pages, and a WhatsApp desk that sends doctor timings and books OPD slots. It writes within NMC rules and reports what an admission cost, read from your HIS.

For a multi-speciality hospital, digital marketing for hospitals is the ads plus the appointment desk: search ads by procedure and area, a Maps profile with timings, health-check and camp ads on Facebook and Instagram, procedure explainers on YouTube, a page per speciality, WhatsApp replies and call tracking, and a source field in the HIS so admissions can be counted.

Most of the loss comes after the consultation. When surgery is advised, the family goes home to compare cost and cashless cover, and nobody calls. We set up a follow-up from your desk with the package charges, the TPA and cashless pre-authorisation steps, and a second-consult slot, then report OPD-to-IPD conversion by speciality every Monday.

Cost per admission. Cost per lead rewards cheap forms that never reach the OPD; cost per admission is ad spend divided by the admissions your HIS marks as coming from the ads, by speciality. We also show OPD slots booked, OPD visits and OPD-to-IPD conversion each week, because admissions take time after the first consultation.

Yes. Your call centre and front desk speak to every patient and book every slot. We set up call tracking, WhatsApp templates with doctor timings, slot reminders and missed-call callbacks so they reach the right patients faster, and every Monday we show which calls became OPD visits and admissions, so you know where the desk loses patients.

Calls and WhatsApp enquiries usually start in the first week a campaign is live, and OPD visits follow within days when the desk replies fast. Admissions run on their own clock: a planned surgery can follow the first consultation by weeks. We don’t promise a date; we report slots, visits and admissions every Monday.

Strategy, cost and fit

Your spare beds and the specialities that lift ARPOB first. A hospital marketing strategy picks the procedures with capacity (orthopaedics, cardiology or oncology, say), the area patients will travel from, and the corporate tie-ups and international patients worth pursuing, then gives each its own campaign, page and message. Every part is judged on admissions, not clicks or reach.

Two parts, on separate lines. Your media budget goes from your own ad accounts to Google and Meta; our fixed management fee depends on the number of specialities and branches, creative volume and the tracking to build. Most hospitals start with one or two specialities and add more once cost per admission is known.

No, and no agency should offer it. The NMC guidelines of 6 October 2026 bar linking an agency’s payment to procuring or referring individual patients (Medical Dialogues). We charge a fixed management fee and still report cost per admission every Monday, so you can judge our work on it without our pay ever depending on a patient.

Apollo Hospitals is on our client list. We haven’t published that work as a case study, so we don’t describe it or quote hospital results here. What we bring is the system on this page: ads judged on cost per admission, every call and WhatsApp tracked to the admission, and copy checked against NMC rules. The first two weeks audit your current calls and ads.

Ad rules, platforms and international patients

Not with Google’s audience lists. Health is a sensitive category, so remarketing to past visitors, uploaded patient lists and lookalikes can’t be used (Google Ads policy), and Meta bars copy that implies a viewer’s condition (Meta). We reach those patients instead through search terms, area, Google’s own audiences and content about the procedure.

Yes, for being found, so keep your Practo and Justdial profiles factual and current. But a patient on a platform sees other hospitals’ doctors on the same page, and you don’t control the follow-up. Your own ads bring patients only you get, tracked in your HIS to the admission. Judge both on cost per admission, and keep both.

Country by country. Separate campaigns for the countries your patients already come from, such as Bangladesh, the Gulf, Iraq or East Africa; ads and explainers in Bengali, Arabic and English; WhatsApp and calls in their hours; a page on the medical visa, documents and travel; and every enquiry routed to your international desk. Our fee is never per patient.

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