VistaCare 32-Page Patient Handbook

This patient handbook entitled Our Journey – The Hospice Answer Book for VistaCare won a 2009 Aster Award for excellence in healthcare marketing. Lori Pasulka, teamed up with Marketing Director, Mike Fleming, to produce this award-winning piece for VistaCare. She was hired as their interim art director from February – August 2008, while their corporate team prepared to close its Scottsdale office for a planned merger with Dallas-based Odyssey Healthcare.

The purpose of this 32-page booklet was to help caregivers, family members and patients understand the full range of services provided by VistaCare, as well as to address commonly asked questions thus providing a practical “how to” guide on caring for a terminally ill loved one. The previous edition (circa 1980’s) had a very dated look and was without-a-doubt in need of a face lift. By using VistaCare’s corporate color palette as a method of navigating the reader through the handbook, costly die-cut tabs were eliminated from the design plan. The inside back cover was designed to have a generous deep pocket to organize all important documents in this useful handbook.

For a closer look at all 32-pages, see Awards page.