7,000 Dentists • Since 1993

About Us
Patient News is the only dental marketing company that truly connects you with your target market and provides ALL the data and support you need for continuous business improvement.
The trusted dental marketing partner of thousands of dentists like you, and known for our top-quality dental patient newsletters, our strategic analytical approach to attracting new dental patients will distinguish your practice from competitors and improve your overall dental marketing results. Not only will you experience better marketing effectiveness, we guarantee your satisfaction with quality and service.
Our Team
We help build and strengthen your practice! Co-owners President Karen Galley and CEO Wayne Lavery work with passion and energy and remain as excited and committed to Patient News and dental marketing today as they were when the company was launched in 1993. Every decision and strategic move is made with the positive outcome for our employees and clients.
Patient NEWS is a great place to work

Our History
Patient News’ CEO and co-owner Wayne Lavery was the Marketing Manager for Health First Doctors Offices, the largest group of corporately run medical facilities in Canada. While there, Wayne introduced a number of marketing solutions – including patient newsletters which satisfied a niche-market opportunity. After an exhaustive competitive review of the dental marketing field, Patient News was established, and...
We produced and mailed our first patient newsletter for Dr. Paul Piccininni (dentist to the Toronto Argonauts) in 1993. That same year, Wayne and Karen Galley, President and co-owner, moved to Haliburton where the Patient News headquarters is located today.
Karen’s background in sales and business management drove the development of our excellent customer servicing guidelines, unique business management strategies, and core cultural decisions earning Patient News an early reputation as a great company to work with. Together they developed a team of dedicated and talented expert marketers with a special and unique corporate culture.

From the start, we had our eye on product development and excellence in innovation and quality. Our patient newsletter core product quickly grew to direct mail, new-patient newsletters, practice brochures, referral cards, and patient surveys, to innovative solutions like our unsurpassed market research and our unparalleled – Practice ZEBRATM. Everything we do at Patient News is driven by our commitment to help our clients build and strengthen their patient relationships. We make sure our clients STAND OUT in their practice communities.
With a dedicated focus on quality, customization, and flexibility, Patient News quickly earned the reputation as the best provider in the industry.
As we approached the millennium year (way back when everyone thought computer systems worldwide would explode), we determined that we had a product that would be extremely competitive in the US. Karen, along with Joanne Bishop (VP), led the launch into the States at the Chicago Midwinter Meeting in February 2000. The tremendous welcome we had from our initial US clients lead to rapid expansion across the country. Subsequently Patient News has become the largest provider of customized dental marketing newsletters in North America.
Our core purpose is to build and strengthen our clients’ patient relationships, and our core values guide our business decisions to this day.
They include innovation and product quality, excellence in customer service, our corporate culture, commitment to the environment, a fun and creative working environment, and support of our local and professional communities.
Our commitment to innovation and quality has driven our product development team to continuously apply best practices and beyond. Detailed research, experience, and market analysis have expanded our dental marketing solution line-up which now includes industry-leading research-based direct mail, digital, and social programs.
Our dental marketing solutions are driven by our commitment to improving our clients’ dental marketing and practice results and growth.
Our Community
Causes Close To Our Hearts
We support various staff-driven initiatives from food drives to cancer walks to heart and stroke benefits. We’ve sponsored several dental missions, contributing thousands of dollars to the well-being of families in Honduras and through Climb for a Cause.
We’re proud of our support of Haliburton County’s Volunteer Dental Outreach. They assist folks who have oral health needs but don’t have the funds to afford regular dentistry.
For many years, Patient News has contributed to the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry’s Give Back a Smile program to help restore smiles of victims of domestic violence.