Behavioral health growth consultants

Fuller census.
Stronger referrals.
Steadier floors.

M&N Marketing Consultants builds the ground game that keeps a treatment program full: outreach teams in the field, referral partners who trust you, and floors that keep the patients they send.

Three disciplines, one growth engine

Census is built in the field, captured at the hand-off and kept on the floor.

Most consultants fix one. We connect all three, so the referrals your outreach team earns turn into admissions, and the patients you admit stay to complete treatment.

Outreach representative presenting to therapists and social workers

    Focus area 01 · Organic lead generation teams

    Build or retrain the outreach team, then prove what every rep is worth.

    Your business development reps are your lowest-cost source of admissions, or your most expensive blind spot. We recruit, retrain and manage them through your CRM so every visit, referral and admit is tracked back to the person who earned it.

    Outreach liaison greeting a clinician in a hospital corridor

      CRM rep scorecard · trailing 90 days

      Organic outreach effectiveness

      Sample data for illustration. Click a column to sort.

      Focus area 02 · Operational diagnosis & KPI restructuring

      Find out why patients leave early, and rebuild how you measure it.

      Length of stay, AMA discharges, retention and alumni engagement are symptoms of operational issues on the floor. We diagnose the root causes, restructure the KPI markers you track and how the data is collected, then set up an ongoing rhythm of measurement and improvement.

      Patients still in treatment, by day of stay

      Before After restructuring

      Where patients leave, and why

      Restructured KPI markers

      From lagging monthly totals to leading indicators your team can act on this week.

      AreaWhat most programs trackWhat we restructure it toCollected
      Length of stayAverage LOS, monthlyLOS vs. authorized days, by payer and level of care; step-down completion rateWeekly, UR
      AMATotal AMA dischargesAMA rate by day of stay, shift and unit; risk flags triggered vs. interventions loggedDaily, per shift
      RetentionDischarge count72-hour and 7-day retention, group attendance, family session completionDaily, EMR
      AlumniAlumni event headcount30/90/180-day contact rate, aftercare attendance, alumni referrals and readmitsMonthly, CRM
      Alumni group gathered in a treatment center courtyard at golden hour

      Ongoing measurement & improvement

      A cycle that keeps running after we leave

      Dramatic, measurable KPI improvement

      Drag through a 12-month engagement.

      A composite of what our clients see month by month. Move the slider to watch the program change, from the baseline we inherit to the steady state we hand back.

      Average daily census vs. licensed capacity

      Before M&N With M&N

      The organic lead generation funnel

      Find the gaps in your referral network. Then close them.

      For every 100 referral sources in your territory, here's how many actually send you patients today, and how many do once your ground team is rebuilt. Tap a stage to see what changes.

      Driving admits

      Outreach representative presenting to therapists and social workers

      Why it works

      "Referral partners send patients to people they trust. That trust is built in person, one visit at a time."

      We ride along with your outreach reps, sit in on referral meetings, walk your floors and read your CRM. Then we build the territories, relationships, routines and reporting your people actually use. No 80-page binder left on a shelf.

      The M&N method

      From diagnosis to self-sustaining in four phases.

        Meet the founder

        He’s sat in every seat in the building.

        Russ Francome has spent more than 17 years in behavioral health as a clinician, program director, outreach leader and executive. That’s why M&N’s work starts on the floor and in the field, not in a slide deck.

        He founded M&N Marketing Consultants in 2026 to help providers build or redefine their organic marketing departments, alumni programming and operations. That means hiring and training, individualized processes built inside the EMR and CRM you already use, and KPI development and oversight, with targets that are not only met but exceeded.

        ROI calculator

        What is an empty bed costing you?

        Enter your program's numbers. We'll estimate the annual revenue an M&N engagement could unlock.

        Scenario

        Estimated added annual revenue

        $0

        Occupancy–
        Added patient days / yr–
        Added admits / month–

        Estimate assumes occupancy closes part of the gap to a 92% ceiling, scaled by scenario. Not a guarantee of results.

        Get a custom assessment
        M&N Marketing Consultants logo: strategy, brand, growth

        Start with a free 30-minute program assessment.

        Tell us about your program. We'll come back with the three KPIs we'd move first and what we'd expect to see in 90 days.

        Where do you want to start?

        Prefer email? Write to russ@mnsolution.net.