To successfully merge and streamline the branding, marketing materials and internal tools of Mercy Health and Bon Secours Health into a unified system for Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH), ensuring consistent messaging, efficient processes and improved accessibility for internal teams. This effort will consolidate brand standards, create new templates and build a self-service marketing tool to support marketing managers across the organization.
Objectives
Unified Vision: Bon Secours Mercy Health brings together two legacy brands to form a stronger, more cohesive entity.
Review marketing materials from Mercy Health and Bon Secours Health to identify overlapping content and ensure all communications align under one clear, consistent and unified identity and content library for key topics (e.g., services, care options, community outreach).
Develop 400+ customizable templates for printed marketing materials that align with the new brand standards. These templates will be flexible and modular, allowing easy adaptation for specific campaigns, services or locations, while ensuring consistency.
Build a user-friendly, web-based self-service tool that enables marketing managers across the BSMH footprint to easily access and customize pre-designed templates for low-level projects. The tool will feature an intuitive interface, allowing users to select templates, customize content and export materials independently, without approval or involvement from the central marketing team.
Consolidate materials and offer customizable templates to empower marketing teams across the organization to work faster and more independently while ensuring brand consistency.
Target Audience
Internal Marketing Teams: Employees in marketing roles across Mercy Health and Bon Secours Health who will need to adopt the new brand standards and tools.
Marketing Managers: Individuals in charge of executing lower-tiered projects who will use the self-service marketing tool to customize materials.
External Stakeholders: Community members, patients, healthcare professionals and potential donors who will interact with BSMH’s marketing materials.
Senior Print Designer at Mercy Health who took lead on this project during the Bon Secours merger.
Consolidated of Brand Standards
Mercy Health: Review and refine existing Mercy Health brand guidelines, identifying strengths and areas for integration into the new BSMH brand.
Bon Secours Health: Review and refine existing Bon Secours Health brand guidelines to harmonize with Mercy Health’s standards.
Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH): Develop new, consolidated brand guidelines for BSMH, combining elements from both legacy brands while introducing new standards for unified messaging, visual identity, typography, colors and logo usage.
Consolidation of Marketing Content
400+ Templates
Coding efforts to create customizable assets
Self-Service Marketing Tool
Creation of a consistent, cohesive set of messaging templates to be used across all communication channels.
Comprehensive set of templates that allows marketing teams to produce materials quickly without sacrificing brand consistency.
Marketing teams are empowered to customize materials on demand without needing advanced design skills, improving workflow efficiency.
Reduced time and costs associated with low-tier marketing projects, enabling marketing managers to execute quickly and independently and freeing designers to work on strategy-based projects.