FINN Companions and OffScrip Well being Be a part of Forces on Multimedia Marketing campaign “Heartbreak in America’s Heartland

Marketing campaign and Documentary Collection Will Shine a Gentle on Rural People’ Challenges, Together with Entry to Info, Healthcare, Broadband, Tech, Shopper Items, Clear Water and Extra.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — FINN Companions, a number one unbiased, globally built-in advertising and marketing and communications agency, introduced at present that it’s going to be part of forces with OffScrip Well being, one of many main digital well being media platforms targeted on affected person engagement, well being fairness, and entry to care, for the multimedia marketing campaign “Heartbreak in America’s Heartland – Disaster in Rural America.” The marketing campaign goals to lift consciousness of the numerous challenges People face in rural areas and construct advocacy to handle the persistent, underlying causes.

FINN will function the professional bono company of file for the hassle, which is centered on a multi-part documentary sequence produced by OffScrip Well being and offered on OffScrip’s podcast community, which is meant to lift consciousness, spark conversations, promote options and spotlight the work of communities, leaders in enterprise and well being, and policymakers making a distinction. As a part of the marketing campaign, OffScrip and FINN Companions will collaborate to enlist a coalition of corporations, educational establishments, and nonprofits to take part within the initiative. 

“Residing within the heartland has change into more and more troublesome for People, and with this unprecedented narrative podcast documentary, we are going to current famous coverage, group, and trade leaders working to alter this actuality,” mentioned Matthew Zachary, OffScrip Well being co-founder and government producer of the award-winning community. “The FINN collaborative spirit and readiness to work with like-minded companions to make a measurable distinction made it clear with whom we must always accomplice to handle this important American problem, which wants many allies to succeed. We and FINN urge all those that need to make a distinction to affix this much-needed effort.”

Some 46 million People reside in rural communities, however many reside hours away from fundamental care, emergency providers, and specialist suppliers. Individuals in rural areas have larger charges of smoking, hypertension, weight problems, psychological sickness, and poor end-of-life care than residents of city and suburban areas. The challenges confronted by rural People additionally embody the impacts of local weather change on their livelihoods, entry to broadband expertise, and sparse instructional assets.

“These challenges to rural People trigger struggling, which drives despair and feeds discord. Dialogue that elevates consciousness of individuals’s difficulties is a vital step in offering a treatment, and communication is step one in offering viable options,” mentioned Peter Finn, founding accomplice and CEO, FINN Companions. “I’ve been a long-time resident of Hunter, one of many far too many rural communities struggling in Upstate New York. The city was economically depressed and shortly deteriorating, however somewhat than abandon Hunter and shut our eyes to what was occurring, we selected to become involved by elevating consciousness and interesting companions via the Catskill Mountain Basis. As we speak, Hunter’s streets are lined with inns, eating places, vintage outlets, and artwork galleries. Guests come to benefit from the fall foliage, hike, and ski. We all know that elevating consciousness to activate individuals will make a distinction all through the nation.”

Utilizing the instance of Hunter, NY and different dwelling laboratories that show how creativity, communication and caring can shift occasions, FINN and OffScrip Well being will work to ask others to accomplice within the effort, championing a nationwide dialog on the challenges rural People face, particularly their struggles to entry schooling, well being, expertise, shopper items, clear water and extra.  

About OffScrip Well being
Based in 2019 with a mission to speed up empathy into healthcare communications, OffScrip Well being is a number one digital well being media platform targeted on what ought to at all times matter most in healthcare: the affected person.

OffScrip Well being is among the fastest-growing affected person entry, affect, and content material influencers within the U.S. market, partaking and interacting with hundreds of thousands of sufferers throughout oncology, uncommon illness, girls’s well being, and extra. OffScrip companions with purchasers within the pharmaceutical and life sciences sector, offering uncompromised entry to hyper-targeted audiences regarding disease-state consciousness, shared decision-making, well being literacy, navigation providers, media coaching, and franchise communications technique.

OffScrip Well being was co-founded by 27-year most cancers survivor Matthew Zachary — one of the vital revered, influential, and visionary affected person advocate voices in healthcare — and Andrew MacDowell, a digital communications government and caregiver dad to his younger son.

About FINN Companions
Based in 2011 on the core rules of innovation and collaborative partnership, FINN Companions has grown from about $24 million in charges to virtually $200 million in charges in the course of the previous 10 years, changing into one of many fastest-growing unbiased public relations companies on the planet and acknowledged as a PRovoke Media 2022 Company of the 12 months. The total-service advertising and marketing and communications firm’s record-setting tempo outcomes from natural progress and integrating new corporations and new individuals into the FINN world via a typical philosophy. With greater than 1,300 professionals throughout 33 places of work, FINN gives purchasers with world entry and capabilities within the Americas, Europe and Asia. As well as, FINN gives its purchasers with entry to top-tier companies worldwide via its membership within the world community PROI.

Headquartered in New York, FINN has places of work in: Atlanta, Bangalore, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Delhi, Denver, Detroit, Dublin, Fort Lauderdale, Frankfurt, Guam, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Jerusalem, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Manila, Mumbai, Munich, Nashville, Orange County, Paris, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, Singapore, Vancouver and Washington D.C. Discover us at finnpartners.com and observe us on Twitter and Instagram at @finnpartners.

Media Contacts

OffScrip Well being:
Andrew MacDowell, Co-Founder & COO
[email protected]

FINN Companions:
Celia Jones, World Director, Advertising Communications
[email protected] 
+1 773 885 9781

Gil Bashe, Managing Companion, Chair World Well being and Function
[email protected]
+1 732 371 0922

SOURCE FINN Companions