Sunrise Health Communications partners with healthcare companies to create and tell impactful stories that engage and influence their stakeholders, including patients, customers, employees, physicians, partners and investors. Led by former healthcare journalist Vince Galloro, Sunrise Health Communications creates corporate communications strategies for hospitals and health systems, other healthcare provider organizations, companies that provide consulting or professional services to provider organizations and healthcare trade groups and associations. Areas of expertise include media relations (both proactive and defensive), thought leadership, crisis and issue management, transactions, post-merger integration and reputation repair and positioning. Specific engagements include: o Transactions: Led successful campaigns from initial announcement through deal closing for transactions in Illinois, Maine, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. o Post-merger integration: Provided internal communications strategy to support integration of Illinois and Pennsylvania mergers. o Crisis/issue management: Led communications campaigns for clients facing federal and state regulatory scrutiny, contract disputes with insurers, and lawsuits against competitors. o Reputation building: Developed comprehensive content and thought leadership campaigns for a growing health analytics and data company, and a large law firm’s healthcare practice. o Media training: Have conducted media training for groups of up to 20, with one-on-one sessions for leaders in need of additional training.