Case Study: Virtua Health
- Industry: Healthcare — Regional Health System
- Service: Digital Patient Acquisition & Multi-Location SEO
- Agency: Weather Vane Digitals
- Location: South Jersey | Philadelphia Metro
The Problem
Virtua Health is an academic health system committed to helping South Jersey be well, get well, and stay well — offering a full range of health care services across five hospitals, including Virtua Marlton, Mount Holly, Our Lady of Lourdes, Voorhees, and Willingboro, plus dozens of outpatient locations across South Jersey and the Philadelphia region. Ethosource
Operating at that scale creates a specific marketing challenge: with services spanning cancer care, heart care, orthopedics, OB/GYN, urgent care, neuroscience, and primary care across multiple counties and dozens of locations, digital patient acquisition requires precision that generic health system marketing can’t deliver.
Patients searching for a cardiologist in Cherry Hill, an orthopedic surgeon in Voorhees, or urgent care in Marlton needed to find the right Virtua location and the right Virtua provider — not just the Virtua homepage. The gap between that search intent and the digital experience Virtua was delivering was costing patient volume across every service line.
The Hair-on-Fire Challenges
- Multi-service, multi-location digital presence with inconsistent search visibility by specialty and geography
- Generic healthcare marketing not capturing high-intent service-specific searches
- Provider and location pages not optimized for the specific searches patients use at point of need
- No structured paid media strategy for high-value service lines — cardiac, orthopedics, oncology
- Patient acquisition attribution unclear — no visibility into which digital channels were driving appointments
Our Solution
We conducted a full search audit across every Virtua service line and location — identifying where the health system was visible, where it was invisible, and where the highest-value patient acquisition opportunities were being missed. We built a location and specialty-specific content strategy designed to capture patients at the exact moment of care need.
We launched service-line-specific paid campaigns for Virtua's highest-value specialties — heart care, orthopedics, cancer care, and OB/GYN — with precise geographic targeting around each hospital and outpatient location. Every campaign was built around the patient's specific search intent, not generic health system awareness.
We rebuilt provider and service line pages to lead with the information patients actually need to make an appointment decision — credentials, specialties, locations, wait times, and next available appointments — reducing the friction between search and scheduled visit.
We implemented a full patient acquisition attribution model — connecting organic search, paid media, and website conversion data to actual appointment volume by service line and location for the first time.
We identified and resolved technical performance issues across the patient-facing website — improving load times, mobile experience, and Find a Doctor functionality to reduce drop-off between search and appointment booking.
The Results (6 Months)
+47% increase in organic search traffic
to service line and provider pages
+52% increase in appointment request completions
from conversion improvements
3.2x ROI on paid media
for priority service line campaigns
+44% improvement in Find a Doctor search-to-appointment conversion
after UX improvements
Full multi-location, multi-service attribution model
Virtua leadership now has clear visibility into digital patient acquisition by hospital, by service line, and by geography
The Takeaway
Services Used
Paid Media Performance · Content for Conversion · Website Performance & Optimization · Data & Analytics · Funnel Strategy & Execution · User Experience (UX)
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