Medical Brochures
See Medical Brochures in action
Procedure notes, aftercare steps or practice services for a patient to read at home, with an optional perforated reminder card that tears off.
- From $57.11 per set of 50, with the per-piece price dropping across 25 tiers all the way to 25,000.
- 6 sizes, from a compact 5.5" x 8.5" up to a wide 11" x 25.5", plus custom sizing anywhere in that range.
- 4 stocks: 100# Gloss Text, 100# Silk/Matte Text, 70# Uncoated Text, and heavier 14pt Gloss Cover.
- Full color on the front with a blank back, or full color on both sides, finished plain or with a High Gloss UV Coating, with a half fold option.
- 3 business day standard turnaround, with 2-Day, Next-Day and Same-Day rush, rated 4.8 out of 5 across 24 reviews.
Fold Your Care Message Into One Clear Handout
A medical brochure prints flat and folds down the middle, opening to give you room for a procedure explainer, a service overview, or pre-visit and after-care instructions. It closes to a size that racks in a waiting room or fits a patient folder, and a set of 50 starts at $57.11, rated 4.8 out of 5 across 24 reviews. Hand it over at check-in to explain a treatment, mail it as an appointment reminder, or lay out your services panel by panel.
A patient reads a folded brochure in order, cover first, then the inside spread, then the back, so the fold puts what to expect before what to do next. To compare medical brochures with the rest of the lineup, browse every style on brochures printing, or build yours from the choices below.
Fifty brochures for $57.11 let a practice test a new after-care handout with its own patients. A hospital stocking every waiting-room rack climbs the same 25 tiers toward 25,000 and pays far less per piece. Each tier below shows the live set total and what the step up saves.
What Are Medical Brochures
Medical brochures are folded print pieces a healthcare practice uses to explain a service, procedure, condition, or care plan, printed full color in 6 sizes, from a compact 5.5" x 8.5" up to a wide 11" x 25.5", on any of 4 stocks. Practices order them when a single page cannot hold the whole message: patient education handouts, treatment explainers, pre-visit and after-care instructions, practice service overviews, insurance and appointment guides, and waiting-room health awareness pieces. Because the sheet folds into panels, it puts a longer clinical explanation into a natural reading order. Our guide on how to make brochures that inform and convert covers the writing and layout. If you want a general folded piece instead, the Standard Brochures cover that, and Dental Brochures and Veterinary Brochures are the versions for those practices.
Medical brochure templates and layout ideas
Three layouts cover most of what a practice hands out. Each one prints on any of the 6 sizes and is finished flat or with the half fold.
- Service overview: the cover names the practice and the one thing a patient should do next, the inside gives one service per block with a plain-language line under each, and the back carries hours, address, phone and parking. It works because a patient finds the service they came for without reading the whole piece.
- Condition explainer, half fold: the cover asks the patient's own question, the inside spread answers it in two columns, what happens and what it feels like, and the back panel gives the next step and who to call. It works because the fold keeps the explanation and the action apart.
- New patient welcome: the cover sets expectations for a first visit, the inside lists what to bring, which insurance is accepted and how long the visit takes, and the back carries the appointment block and a map. It works because it answers the questions that otherwise arrive by phone.
Map the half fold panel by panel
A half fold gives you four panels, and each one has a single job. The front cover carries the question or the condition in the patient's own words and nothing else. The two inside panels carry the explanation, left to right: what it is, then what happens next. The back panel carries the call to action, the phone number, the appointment line and the address. Nothing that asks for a decision belongs on the cover, and nothing a patient has to act on should be buried inside the fold.
What Size Should a Medical Brochure Be
Pick the size by the length of the explanation and how the piece reaches the patient. A 5.5" x 8.5" folds to a slim handout for a front-desk rack or a patient folder. The classic 8.5" x 11" and 8.5" x 14" fold into a familiar bi-fold or tri-fold with room for a full symptom list or a step-by-step care plan. Step up to 9" x 12", 11" x 17", or the wide 11" x 25.5" when a procedure guide needs diagrams and several panels. The specs panel below lists all 6 sizes, both finishes, the fold option and the full stock list. If none of the presets fits, set a custom size anywhere from 5.5 to 11 inch wide and 8.5 to 25.5 inch tall. For a piece that ships pre-folded, the Folded Brochures are another option.
Content, stock and fold decide how a patient uses a medical brochure.
What to include in a patient brochure
- Plain language: short sentences, no abbreviations only staff use, and the clinical term in brackets after the everyday one rather than in place of it.
- One clear next action: book, call, scan the code, or ask at the desk. A brochure with three competing actions gets none of them done.
- The appointment and phone block: the number to call, the hours it is answered, and the address, set large enough to read from across a waiting room.
- An insurance note: which plans are accepted and what a patient should bring to a first visit.
- A second language line: at minimum one line in the second language of your patient population telling a reader how to get the same information, or print a second version of the file for that audience.
Pick a stock that fits the job
The default 100# Gloss Text prints clinical photos and anatomy diagrams bright on a coated sheet at a low price. The 100# Silk/Matte Text has less glare, which suits the dense pages of a care plan or a consent overview read under exam-room lights. The 70# Uncoated Text takes a pen, so patients can note a dose or a next appointment right on the handout. And the heavier 14pt Gloss Cover gives a brochure a stiffer weight that stands up in a rack. A High Gloss UV Coating makes a cover photo or logo snap even more.
Use the fold to organize the story
Order the half fold and the flat sheet arrives as a two-panel handout: a cover for the condition, an inside spread for the explanation, and a back for the next step. Larger sizes give you room to fold into standard bi-fold and tri-fold formats, so a treatment plan or a service list breaks into clean sections a patient can follow in order. Folding pricing is subject to change upon file review, and you can add perforation if your design needs a tear-off appointment card or reply slip.
Design it without a designer
Start from a free, professionally built layout in our brochure design templates, part of the 10,000+ design templates on 4OVER4.COM, then change the colors, copy and logo in the online editor in minutes. Bi-fold, tri-fold, z-fold and gate fold layouts are already built at the right panel proportions.
If your practice's designer already built the brochure, download a blank brochure template instead. It is drawn at the real trim size with the 1/8" bleed, the safe margin and the fold line marked, so a dosage table or a phone number never lands in the crease. Pick the size that matches your order below, drop your art in, and upload.
Press-Ready Blank Templates
How Much Do Medical Brochures Cost
Fifty medical brochures cost $57.11, and doubling a 500-piece run of $155.97 to 1,000 adds only $24.16, since 1,000 run $180.13. A 6,000-piece run for a hospital system is $399.82, and runs go to 25,000. Count the new patients you see in a quarter, add a stack for each waiting room, and set that number on the slider below to read the set total and the per-piece cost.
Wally folds your whole care message into one sheet
Why a stack of medical brochures explains more than a flyer ever could.
Fifty medical brochures start at $57.11, and the fold gives you panels for a procedure explainer, a service overview, or after-care instructions. Pick a size up to 11 by 25.5 inch, choose your stock, add a half fold, and Wally gets them printed fast, as quick as same-day out of NYC.
Can Your Medical Brochure Be Folded
Yes. Choose the half fold in the configurator and the sheet arrives as a two-panel handout with a cover, an inside and a back. The larger sizes give you room to fold down into standard bi-fold and tri-fold formats, so a full care plan or a service overview breaks into sections that read in order. Add perforation when you want a tear-off appointment card or reply slip, and print full color on both sides so every panel carries content. Folding pricing is subject to change upon file review.
How Do Medical Brochures Compare to the Rest of the Range
If you are weighing medical brochures against another healthcare version or a pre-folded option, the chart below lines up the closest siblings with the starting price of each.
See How a Finished Medical Brochure Lands
The gallery below collects brochures our own customers printed in-house, across different sizes, stocks and folds, so you can see how a diagram and a care plan read when the sheet opens and borrow ideas. Tap any print to see it larger.
Real Brochures Our Customers Printed
How Fast Can You Get Medical Brochures
Medical brochures print on a 3 business day standard turnaround, and when a date sneaks up you can move that to 2-Day, Next-Day or even Same-Day production. Each step buys back time for a set percentage on top of the base price, so you only pay for speed when you actually need it. Same Day orders must be approved by NOON EST to ship that day. Compare every turnaround tier below and see exactly what the rush adds before you pick.
See the Rest of Our Products
Medical brochures are one stop in a much larger lineup, and you can scan the full print product range any time. If another brochure version, a pre-folded piece or a heavier stock suits the practice better, each option shows its own starting price and links to its product page.
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Medical Brochures: Frequently Asked Questions
What can one medical brochure cover?
Printed flat and folded down the middle, it opens to hold a procedure explainer, a service overview, or pre visit and after care instructions. Closed, it is sized to rack in a waiting room or sit in a patient folder.
How many do I have to order?
The minimum is a set of 50 at $57.11. Pricing steps across 25 tiers up to 25,000, so a single clinic and a hospital system can both order a sensible quantity.
Which size fits a patient folder?
Six sizes are available, from a compact 5.5 inch by 8.5 inch up to a wide 11 inch by 25.5 inch, plus custom sizing anywhere in that range. The compact size drops into a folder or a waiting room rack without any further folding.
Which stock works for instructions a patient writes on?
The 70# Uncoated Text takes pen ink, which matters when a nurse fills in a dose, a date, or a follow up. The 100# Gloss Text and 100# Silk/Matte Text hold clinical photography and diagrams better, and the 14pt Gloss Cover is the heaviest of the four.
Should I add a UV coating to a waiting room brochure?
A High Gloss UV Coating gives the sheet a hard surface for a piece handled by many people through the day. Leave it plain when staff or patients need to write on it, since ink does not sit well on a coated surface.
How fast can patient materials be printed?
Standard production is 3 business days, with 2 Day, Next Day, and Same Day rush. That covers a clinic that needs a corrected instruction sheet in hand before the next round of appointments.
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