Columbus Community Hospital receives seven Aster Awards for excellence in healthcare advertising
Contact: Amy Blaser
For Immediate Release
(COLUMBUS, Neb.) – Columbus Community Hospital’s marketing department recently won seven awards during the 2025 Aster Awards.
The Aster Awards — one of the most prestigious competitions, recognizing excellence in healthcare marketing and advertising — recently announced its winners for 2025. For more than 24 years, the Aster Awards has honored outstanding professionals whose work demonstrates exceptional creativity, innovation and effectiveness. The healthcare marketing magazine Marketing Healthcare Today organizes the competition, which is one of the largest medical marketing award programs.
A panel of industry experts judges the entries based on their creativity, layout/design, typography, production, quality and effectiveness. The panel evaluated each submission using a rigorous scoring system, with a perfect score set at 100%. Entries competed within groups categorized by organizational size and type to ensure fair comparisons. Only the top 16% of entries nationwide received awards, signifying their achievement.
CCH won two gold awards, four silver awards and one bronze award.
Below is a full list of CCH’s winning campaigns:
| Award | Campaign/Advertisement | Advertisement Category |
| Gold | CCH Christmas ad (with Midwest Marketing Services) | Newspaper Advertising - Single |
| Gold | 2024 CCH Physician Spotlight series (with Midwest Marketing Services) | Top Advertising Campaigns |
| Silver | Columbus Fieldhouse daily event vertical images (with Midwest Marketing Services) | Other/Misc. |
| Silver | 2024 Bump and Beyond Prepared Childbirth classes (with Midwest Marketing Services) |
Brochure Advertising - Series |
| Silver | 2024 Doctors Day (with Midwest Marketing Services) | Special Event |
| Silver | Summer Ag Safety series (with Midwest Marketing Services) | Social Media Campaign |
| Bronze | 2023-24 CCH Foundation Annual Report (with Midwest Marketing Services) | Annual Report |
For more information on these awards, including a full list of winners, visit asterawards.com. For more information on CCH or its programs and services advertised in these winning entries, visit columbushosp.org.