Multi-Site Operations

Send Callers to the Site That Can Actually See Them

Hours, imaging cover and queue length differ by site. Route each caller by the rules your operations team wrote, not by the number they happened to dial.

How it pays back

The Nearest Site Is Not Always the Right Site

A caller five minutes from your smallest clinic may need imaging that only two of your locations staff after five o'clock. Routing on capability and hours rather than proximity alone prevents the second drive, which is the version of the visit that ends in a bad review.

Load Balancing Is an Operations Decision, Not a Guess

Whether to push volume away from a swamped site, and at what threshold, belongs to the people who own the schedule. Those thresholds become explicit rules the phone applies every time, including on the Saturday when the person who normally decides is not working.

One Phone Behaviour Across the Whole Group

Groups accumulate inconsistency: one site transfers, another takes a message, a third tells patients to just come. A single authored routing model gives every caller the same experience regardless of which number is on the sign they drove past.

Site Detail Changes Weekly and the Phone Has to Keep Up

Holiday hours, a tech out sick, a site closing early for staffing. These are the details that make routing wrong. Because the rules and site data are configuration rather than staff memory, a change made once is live on every line immediately.

Unlimited concurrent calls

Every site's line answered at once, so a surge at one location never blocks another

24/7 coverage

Which site is still open, and until when, answered on evenings, weekends and holidays

HIPAA BAA included

Caller detail passed between sites over TLS and stored with AES-256 encryption at rest

Frequently asked questions

How many locations can this handle?

There is no practical ceiling on the number of sites, each with its own hours, capabilities, age policy, cutoff and script. The constraint is that someone at your group has to keep the site data accurate, which is exactly the work the routing rules make visible.

Who decides how load is balanced?

You do. The system executes criteria your operations team writes, such as pushing overflow only when a queue passes a threshold you set, or never moving employer-account patients away from their contracted site.

Can it quote a different wait for each location?

Yes, where each site publishes a figure the system can read. Live queue values are available through API or FHIR for platforms that expose them, and available through secure workflow automation for those that do not.

What if a site closes unexpectedly?

The site is marked closed in configuration and every line reflects it immediately, including the group number and that site's own direct line. Callers are given the alternative you nominated rather than a voicemail box nobody is checking.

Does the receiving site know a patient is on the way?

A structured summary is delivered to the destination you choose, an EMR task, a shared inbox, or a site-specific queue, carrying the caller's details and exactly what they were told. Writeback is available through API or FHIR for supported systems.

Can it route occupational health accounts differently from the public?

Yes. Employer accounts frequently have a contracted site, a specific service list and a named contact, and those callers can be held to that arrangement rather than balanced like walk-in traffic.

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