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Lakeland Earns Website of the Year Honors

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With a record tally of more than 8,000 votes in spirited competition, Lakeland Health has emerged with the trophy for Website of the Year in the healthcare category from an Internet development company that powers hundreds of websites across the globe. 

Telerik Sitefinity's 2015 Website of the Year honors for healthcare landed recently with Lakeland Health after a multi-stage effort to arrive at the nominees eligible to be voted upon. The hospital system introduced their newly redesigned site 16-months ago in January of 2015, and it's clearly a winner on multiple fronts.

Since its inception in 2011, the Website of the Year awards have been recognizing Telerik Sitefinity-powered websites for creativity, design, user experience, functionality, and overall website presentation.

Lakeland's new site currently houses more than 1,200 pages and 16 micro-sites. While visiting the site, which is responsive for use on multiple devices including smartphones, laptops, desktop computers and the like, users have access to a robust physician search tool, a content library featuring accredited health news and articles, and an events calendar that can easily be searched by date range or specialty and then directly added to a visitor’s personal calendar. The entire site can even be translated to a visitor’s preferred language using a button on the tool bar.

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In 2015, Lakeland Health also became the first hospital in the nation to integrate Healthgrades’ five star ratings within the Find a Doctor directory on their corporate website. When making decisions about their healthcare, patients are now able to see how their peers have rated a physician and immediately share feedback about their own healthcare experience without ever leaving the website.

Megan Yore is Chief Communications Officer & Director of Marketing for Lakeland Health. She says, "Ensuring our patients have easy access to Lakeland Health information was the driving force behind our new design and platform.” She adds, “We are honored by this recognition and thank all of our community members who voted for Lakeland and who chose us for their healthcare needs.”

As in previous years, the 2015 Website of the Year winners were selected in two phases. First, an internal jury selected the three best Telerik Sitefinity websites in the 18 designated categories. After narrowing the field, voting was opened up to the community at large to choose the winners. With a record number of votes – close to 8,000 people participated in the voting process.

Svetozar Georgiev is Senior Vice President of Application Platforms & Progress at Sitefinity. He says, ​“While the Sitefinity platform is trusted and used by thousands of customers worldwide to create and optimize customer experiences across digital channels, these awards honor the progressive companies that are truly setting the pace for others.” 

To view the award-winning website, click this link: www.lakelandhealth.org

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