Multi-Location Routing

One Podiatrist, Three Offices, and a Phone That Rings Anyway

Patients call the nearest office whether or not anyone is there. Route by your day grid, by what each site can actually do, and by which provider operates.

Handles the structural shape of podiatry practice, where one provider splits a week across satellite offices and spends part of it in an operating room, a surgery centre or a facility, leaving each site dark for days at a time
Routes against your published day grid, so a caller is offered the days their provider is actually at the site they want rather than the next open slot anywhere in the group
Recognises that podiatry sites are not interchangeable. Radiography at one office, casting and the orthotic lab courier at another, a treatment room set up for nail procedures at a third, so the visit type constrains the location
Directs surgical consultations to the provider who operates and conservative care to the associate who does not, per the scope rules your practice writes, without characterising any clinical need
Answers each site's real details accurately, hours, address, parking, lift and step-free access, which matters disproportionately to a patient population with limited mobility
Tags every message and booking with the site and provider it belongs to, so the team that opens each office in the morning sees its own work rather than a shared pile

How it pays back

The Dark Office Problem

A satellite office with nobody in it still receives calls all day, and forwarding them to the busy site makes that site's queue worse. Answering every line at once, with the day grid loaded, means a caller reaching the closed office is booked correctly instead of being told to ring back tomorrow.

Equipment and Room Setup Decide the Site

Booking a casting appointment at the office without the lab courier, or a fracture recheck where there is no imaging, produces a wasted trip for a patient who may not drive. Encoding site capability in the booking rules is unglamorous and it removes a category of error that frustrates patients more than anything else.

Provider Scope, Not Provider Guesswork

Groups that mix surgical and conservative podiatrists lose time to consultations booked with the wrong provider. Your scope rules decide who sees what, applied identically on every call. The system never infers from symptoms that a patient needs surgery, it applies the routing category your practice defined.

One Rule Set Across Every Site

Multi-site practices drift. Each office develops its own booking habits, its own phrasing, its own exceptions. A single configuration applied to every inbound call gives you consistency you could not previously enforce, and a single place to change it when the rotation changes.

Unlimited concurrent calls

Every site's line is answered at once, including offices with nobody in the building

24/7 coverage

Callers reaching a closed satellite still book instead of being told to ring the main office

Dozens of languages

Site-specific access and parking detail explained in the caller's own language

Frequently asked questions

What happens when the rotation changes?

The day grid, provider assignments and site rules are configuration your practice updates. A change applies from the next call onward, which matters in podiatry where a surgical day or a facility rounding afternoon can move week to week.

Can a patient insist on a particular office?

Yes, and that preference is honoured within your rules. If the visit type cannot be delivered at their preferred site, the call explains that plainly and offers the alternatives you configured rather than silently booking somewhere the patient did not expect.

Do we need a separate number for each location?

No. One number can route by site, and multiple numbers can share a single rule set. Practices commonly keep existing local numbers for continuity while consolidating the underlying logic in one place.

How do messages reach the right office?

Each captured call carries the site and provider it belongs to and is delivered to that destination, whether that is an EMR task, a shared inbox or a structured summary. Nothing lands in a single undifferentiated queue for someone to sort.

What about the provider's operating and rounding days?

Those blocks are represented in the configuration, so those days are not offered as clinic availability. Calls arriving on them are handled by your rules for that day, which usually means capture and route rather than same-day booking.

Does it handle sites in different time zones?

Yes. Hours, closures and callback expectations are configured per site, which matters for groups spanning a time-zone boundary and for practices operating across more than one country.

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