Senior operator, embedded in your team

Fractional CMO,
for provider groups and PE portfolios.

Your full CMO function, strategy, brand, growth, provider recruitment marketing, referral outreach, review management, agency oversight, and the reporting that ties it all together. A senior healthcare marketing operator embeds with your team on a weekly cadence and runs the whole marketing org. The Vistamar Suite is one of the tools we use, not the point of the engagement.

20+
Yrs avg operator
experience
Weekly
Working session
with your team
Monthly
Board-ready
executive report
30d
Time to first
report
Your Fractional CMO
MK
M. Kaplan
VP Client Delivery · 18 yrs
PriorVP Marketing · multi-region specialty group
FocusMulti-location provider group ops
CadenceWeekly · 60 min · your team
OwnsStrategy · brand · growth · recruitment · vendors
Not an account manager. Not a junior consultant. A senior operator who has run healthcare marketing at your scale.
WEEKLY CADENCE · SEP 2026
Mon 09/07Executive report review
Tue 09/08Working session · 60m
Wed 09/09Referral outreach sync
Thu 09/10Recruitment + brand review
Fri 09/11Agency + vendor check-in
What happens without senior leadership

Junior teams optimize for the wrong things, and nobody notices for two quarters.

The pattern is predictable across every multi-location healthcare marketing account that lacks senior operating leadership. Three specific gaps show up every time.

The wrong things get measured.

Traffic goes up, calls go down, and nobody flags it because the dashboard was built by the vendor who benefits from traffic-up as a headline.

Reports get built for the tool, not the CEO.

Junior teams ship the reporting the SaaS platform makes easy. What leadership actually needs to make decisions goes unbuilt.

Marketing becomes reactive, not strategic.

Without a senior operator setting the quarter's priorities, the team optimizes for tickets and last-week's fires. The 12-month plan doesn't exist.

What we own

The whole marketing function, not just the platform.

A fractional CMO engagement covers the full scope of a healthcare marketing org: brand and positioning, growth channels, provider recruitment marketing, referral network outreach, review and reputation management, agency oversight, and the reporting layer. The Vistamar Suite is one of the tools we use to run it.

Brand & positioning

Message architecture, voice, competitive positioning across the portfolio and per brand. Refreshes as the specialty mix or PE thesis evolves.

Growth strategy

Which channels earn investment this quarter. SEO, paid, content, partnerships, community, and how the mix shifts by market, brand, and service line.

Provider recruitment marketing

Recruitment site pages, campaign creative, LinkedIn presence, employer-brand content, applicant funnel measurement, the marketing side of provider hiring.

Referral network outreach

Physician liaison programs, referring-provider collateral, referral-source tracking, and the outbound cadence that keeps your network sending patients.

Review & reputation management

Review-generation campaigns, 4-hour response SLA across GBP / Yelp / Healthgrades, reputation escalation paths, quarterly sentiment reporting to leadership.

Content & site strategy

Service pages, location pages, provider bios, condition content, and the editorial calendar that keeps the site working for both patients and search.

Agency & vendor leadership

If you already have an agency, media buyer, or content vendors, we manage them, quarterly reviews, deliverable audits, contract renegotiation when the numbers warrant it.

Executive reporting layer

Monthly board-ready executive report and quarterly roadmap, powered by the Vistamar Suite so the data ties out and the format never slips.

Methodology

The 30-day onboarding · then a monthly cadence.

Every engagement starts with the same four-week onboarding. On week five, we're in the monthly operating rhythm and shipping the executive report your CEO reads.

1
Week 1

Discovery + priority-term calibration

Interview leadership, review last 4 quarters of marketing performance, calibrate priority-term list per specialty × location.

2
Week 2

Console IQ deployment

Wire up SERP tracking, GBP integration, analytics ingestion. Establish baseline metrics for every location and priority term.

3
Week 3

First executive report draft

Draft the report format with your leadership team. Iterate to what your CEO actually wants to see. Lock structure for the ongoing cadence.

4
Week 4

Q&A + quarterly roadmap

Deliver first full monthly report. Present the first-quarter priority roadmap, owners, deadlines, expected impact, to leadership.

Ongoing

Monthly operating rhythm

Weekly working sessions · monthly executive report · quarterly roadmap review. Same cadence every month, forever.

Who this is for

Three profiles that fit our fractional CMO model.

Provider group · direct

You want an operator, not a report writer.

10-500 locations. Your internal team is capable but stretched. You want a senior operator setting the direction and holding vendors accountable, running the account with your team, not just reporting on it.

Healthcare-focused PE

You need standardized marketing across your portcos.

5-20 provider-group portfolio companies. Fractional CMO per portco (or one CMO across multiple similar portcos), with cross-portfolio benchmarking baked in. Standardized report at the portfolio level for your board.

Diligence / transition

You need marketing evaluated before you invest.

Acquisition target or portfolio company in transition. Six-week engagement to evaluate the marketing function's real performance, identify structural gaps, and recommend the go-forward operating model.

Fractional CMO client · Balance Health

What a Vistamar fractional CMO shipped in year one.

"We hired Vistamar as a fractional CMO after a bad experience with a traditional agency. Within 90 days we'd consolidated three tools, replaced our monthly deck with an automated executive report, and had a senior operator setting quarterly priorities. Total marketing spend went down. Results went up."

RK
R. Kaplan
COO, Balance Health
Time to first report
30d
baseline established + first exec report shipped
Analyst hours saved
−41%
per monthly reporting cycle
Tools consolidated
4→1
stack simplified in first 90 days
Marketing spend
−22%
while SERP visibility grew across portfolio
Common questions

What operators ask before hiring us.

Do you replace our existing agency?

Not necessarily. Most engagements start with us managing your existing agency, running quarterly reviews, auditing deliverables, holding them accountable to real metrics. Some engagements end with the agency staying in place; others end with the agency being replaced or the work brought in-house. Either way, the decision is grounded in data.

How is the fractional CMO different from your Suite alone?

The Suite is the operating platform. The fractional CMO is a senior operator using the Suite to run your account. You can buy the Suite standalone and run it yourself; you can also add fractional CMO if you want operator-level execution alongside the tooling.

How much time does our internal team need to commit?

One hour per week for the working session, plus asynchronous back-and-forth. Your team owns execution against the priorities we set together; we own the strategy, measurement, and reporting layer.

Can we start with a smaller engagement?

Yes. The 30-day discovery engagement is a legitimate way to try us out, you get the initial baseline report + priority-term calibration + first quarterly roadmap, and can decide whether to continue into the ongoing monthly cadence.

Who's the actual operator on my account?

We match operators to your portfolio and specialty mix. Every Vistamar operator has 15+ years of senior healthcare marketing experience. You interview them before signing, we don't do bait-and-switch handoffs to junior staff post-contract.

Ready for a senior operator?

Book a 30-minute call with a Vistamar operator.

Provider group direct or healthcare-focused PE, book directly with the operator who'd run your account. The 30-day discovery engagement is a good way to test the fit.