Calvary Hospital

Case study

When families search for answers in the hardest moments, Calvary shows up first.

Hospice and palliative care search is among the most competitive and emotionally charged in healthcare. The people searching these terms are often in crisis — or carefully researching and planning for care during life’s most challenging chapter. Either way, speed to the right information matters.

HML has built and managed Calvary’s organic content strategy across every service line — geographic pages covering every borough and county in the New York metro, informational content that reaches families before they even know what care they need, and clinical pages that rank for the terms physicians and patients search when it counts most.

Organic search isn’t just traffic for Calvary. It’s how the people who need them most find them.

Challenge

Reaching people at every stage of life's most challenging chapter

Hospice and palliative care search is one of healthcare's most competitive categories — and one of its most human. Some searchers are in acute crisis. Others are quietly planning ahead, trying to understand their options before they have to act. Calvary needed to show up for both, across a crowded field dominated by national health systems and well-funded directories.

Solution

A full-coverage organic strategy built to outrank at every level

HML built and managed Calvary's organic strategy end-to-end — geographic pages for every borough and county in the NY metro, awareness-stage content for families still learning what care they need, and clinical pages targeting high-intent terms searched by both patients and physicians. Every layer was engineered to surface above competitors where it matters most.

Results

3x organic growth — with $0 in paid spend

Calvary's organic footprint has grown from 8.5K to 25.4K monthly visits — outranking 5,100+ competitors with zero paid search investment. 98% of their SERP presence is pure organic, and with 222 AI mentions across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI, the strategy is already built for where search is heading next.

Monthly organic visits25.4K
Paid search spend$0
Keywords ranking13.5K
AI search mentions222

1.99M

organic impressions

29K

organic sessions — nearly 2× direct traffic

18K

new users from organic search — the single largest new patient acquisition channel

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Ranking across every borough and county in the New York metro

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Informational content reaching families at the earliest stages of their search

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