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S360 Healthcare
Advocacy
Navigating changing policies with sound strategies.
At S360, we work with health systems and hospitals, publicly funded health agencies, trade associations and coalitions, university and academic research hospitals, more to address the critical and far-reaching implications of healthcare policy and legislation, funding gaps, and workforce needs and shortages. We bring sound strategies, a deep network of industry influencers, and an integrated and comprehensive suite of services to help.
Learn more about how S360 can be your partner in healthcare advocacy, funding, and positioning.
How we help
We help you navigate the complex landscape of healthcare through compelling positioning, clearly articulated needs, engaging the right people, and securing the funding and policy changes essential to your success.
Positioning
Define and articulate a resonant story. We can help you define and articulate your story in a way that’s clear, precise, resonant and—importantly—moves people to action. The best outcomes begin with identifying a need, defining an actionable solution, and making a clear, salient, and resonant appeal.
Funding
Obtain the right funding for the change you want to see. We can help you target and obtain funding from a range of private and public sources. Importantly, our experience and network of influential relationships at every level of government—local, state, and federal—allow us to take your case to the right elected officials and obtain funding through earmarks, grants, and tax credits. We also have fluency in the private funding sphere, meaning a variety of options are at our disposal.
Navigation
Your guide through a complex industry landscape. The healthcare landscape is famously complex and often siloed. Working with S360, you’ll have a trusted guide to seamlessly navigate this intricate industry. You’ll also get a full suite of integrated services, so all your needs are met with a single team. And our holistic view of the industry means we can identify opportunities and make connections that might otherwise be overlooked.
Advocacy
Reach and activate the most important audiences. Whether you need the ears of community leaders, legislators, funders, or the public, we have the strategies to break through the noise, capture and hold their attention and move them to action.
Case Studies
Situation: Oregon’s undocumented and low-income communities of color faced systemic barriers to healthcare access, and a coalition fighting for their interests needed a strong advocacy strategy to expand funding for the Healthier Oregon Program.
Strategy: Strategies 360 built and managed a statewide coalition, engaged key legislators and healthcare stakeholders, and developed a comprehensive communications and advocacy plan to amplify community voices.
Success: The coalition gained a stronger seat at the table in Salem, secured endorsements from major healthcare players, and positioned the Coalition to influence policy decisions that will expand coverage for thousands of Oregonians.
Situation: Prescription drug prices were rising rapidly, threatening affordability for Oregon patients and undermining trust in the system. We needed a strategy to protect the state’s Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB) and advance new reforms.
Strategy: Strategies 360 led coalition management, lobbying, and a statewide communications campaign—building public pressure, shaping rulemaking, and coordinating testimony to keep affordability a top legislative priority.
Success: We strengthened bipartisan support for PDAB, expanded its coalition reach to rural and underrepresented communities, and positioned Oregon as a national leader on prescription drug affordability reforms.
Situation: One of our states was having a crisis in children’s mental health. We realized that one of our clients had the skill set to provide some solutions.
Strategy: To begin the dialogue with state officials as to how this client might help we prompted the client to provide examples of what works and what does not work in other states and proposed positioning the client as the state’s partner as provider of agnostic information focused on best practices. The 360 team guided the client across the state to meet with important stakeholders on what was really needed and proven successful.
Success: We put our client in the best position possible and they won a multi-million-dollar request for proposal as a result.
Situation: Courts held that an important provision regarding a declaration of brain death was not clear, and hospitals and physicians needed the law to be unambiguous and beyond reproach.
Strategy: Calling on national experts who have done extensive research on brain death, S360 brought together stakeholders who crafted those findings into clear and concise legislation. It clarified what steps a physician should take to declare an individual brain dead and ensured it not only met the court’s needs, but also medical review. Reaching consensus on language was just the first step to convincing legislators why the clarification of law was needed. It also beat back major misconceptions as to what, in fact, brain death was and how it could be deemed incontrovertible.
Success: The law was passed, and additional states began to look at this groundbreaking legislation as the standard definition that all should adopt.
Situation: A regional hospital’s electronic medical records system was dated and causing problems for staff and patients alike.
Strategy: Securing new funding to upgrade their system would help improve the hospital by making necessary upgrades to ensure safe and easy access to medical records for both patients and staff. With this financial support, the hospital could implement advanced security measures to protect sensitive patient information, modernize its IT infrastructure to support reliable and efficient performance, and develop user-friendly interfaces that simplify navigation and management of medical records. Additionally, integrating EMR systems with other healthcare platforms would facilitate seamless data exchange, improving care coordination and access to specialized services.
Success: The hospital received $2.5 million to enhance its electronic medical records system in the FY24 Labor, Health & Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriation bill.
Situation: One of Hawaii’s leading hospitals had beds and gurneys that were over 17 years old and in need of replacement.
Strategy: Since almost all the beds are no longer able to be serviced or repaired, S360 identified a line item in the FY25 Labor, Health & Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Appropriation bill to request funding for the replacement of 252 beds.
Success: Both Senator Schatz and Hirono in their FY25 CDS FY25 Labor, Health & Human Services, Education and Related Agencies requests included $1.26 million for the hospital to replace its beds and gurneys fleet.
