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Why Patients Still Want a Real Person on the Phone and What It Means for Medical Offices
Automation is a large part of everyday life, including how businesses handle phone calls. However, just because something can be automated doesn’t always mean that’s what people want. This is especially the case for medical offices. A patient calling may be sick,...
What Happens When a Patient Calls After Hours? A Practice Manager’s Guide
It’s 8:45 on Tuesday night. A mother is holding her feverish toddler while calling your office. Another patient has just realized they’re out of medication they take everyday. An elderly man is trying to remember if his appointment is Wednesday or Thursday and doesn’t...
What Is a HIPAA-Compliant Answering Service? 7 Questions Medical Offices Should Ask Before Signing
Picture the following scenario. It’s 9 p.m., and a patient calls your office about a new symptom. The patient gives the office their name, date of birth, and a callback number. A message is taken. Now, where does the message go next, and who else is able to view...
Maximizing Small Business Growth with 24/7 Answering Services
Ask most property managers what an answering service does and you will probably hear some version of “It takes messages after hours.” While that is true, that is only a small part of what a trained answering service does. The property management teams that get the...
Winter Is Coming for Your Properties: An After-Hours Emergency Checklist for Property Managers
A single cold snap can pack a month's worth of emergency maintenance calls in a single night. Heaters that sit idle all summer often fail on their first real test when tenants need them most. Pipes in exterior walls and crawl spaces freeze and it almost always seems...
The 2 A.M. Test: How Property Managers Should Handle After-Hours Maintenance Calls
It’s 2:13 a.m. and a resident on the third floor wakes up to the sound of dripping water. By the time they find the source, water is running down the kitchen wall and pooling under the cabinets. They grab their phone and call the number on the fridge magnet. What...
Bilingual After Hours Calls in Medical and Legal Practices: What’s at Stake
Consider the following scenario: It’s 9:40 on a Tuesday night. A patient calls their doctor’s office on the after hours line, attempting to describe an alarming symptom they are experiencing. However, English isn't the patient’s primary language. Due to the language...
“Press 2 for Español” Is Not True Bilingual Support
Consider a caller’s experience: they call your business, select the prompt for Español and then are immediately placed in a slower holding queue to speak to a bilingual agent. By the time an agent picks up, the damage to your business's reputation has already been...
The $2.75 Trillion Reason to Answer Every Call
Somewhere in your call log this month, there is a customer you never knew you lost. They called your business, heard an English only greeting and hung up before anyone could help. No complaint, no voicemail, no missed call alert to tell you what happened. It shows up...
24/7 Doesn’t Mean Automated—Why Live Human Receptionists Still Win Customer Trust
Imagine the following real life scenarios: A pipe bursts in a rental unit at 11 p.m. A new client, still shaken from a stressful event, finally works up the nerve to call a law office after hours. A homeowner’s HVAC dies on the hottest weekend of the summer. In each...
