Madison, Wis. — SSM Health is delighted to announce that the Wisconsin Region Marketing and Communications team was honored with the Team of the Year award by the Madison and Northeast Wisconsin chapters of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) during the fifth annual WisCOMsin Awards ceremony held virtually on May 6, 2025.
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The WisCOMsin Awards recognized the top communications and public relations achievements in Wisconsin in 2024. The event included project-based awards for organizations and prestigious practitioner honors bestowed on individuals and a team.
SSM Health’s Marketing and Communications team is a multi-disciplinary team which supports all internal-facing and external-facing communications for SSM Health’s 13,000 Wisconsin-based physicians, providers and other staff. This includes employee news, executive communications, patient-facing marketing and health education information, social media, traditional media, and crisis communications.
"The WisCOMsin awards exemplify the core of PRSA: strategic communications," stated Diana Henry, president of PRSA Madison. "We are delighted to honor the SSM Health Marketing and Communications team for their outstanding contributions, which highlight the exceptional strategic communications talent at work in Wisconsin."
“This is a hard earned, well-deserved recognition for our team,” says Heather Sullivan, VP of Marketing and Communications for SSM Health in Wisconsin. “I am so thankful for each member of our team – because the work we do is better because of each person’s skill, talent and passion for telling the SSM Health story.”
SSM Health also received recognition as a 2025 WisCOMsin Award of Distinction winner in the Public Affairs and Community Education category for its Vaccine Education campaign and a 2025 WisCOMsin Award of Distinction winner in the Social Media Campaign category for its work promoting SSM Health Express Virtual Care.
The WisCOMsin Awards is a collaborative effort between the Northeast Wisconsin and Madison Chapters of PRSA. For more information on PRSA, visit www.PRSA.org. To learn more about the sponsoring PRSA chapters for the 2025 WisCOMsin Awards, visit PRSA Madison at www.prsamadison.org and PRSA Northeast Wisconsin at www.prsanewis.org.
