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Communication Solutions for Mental Health Care

Whether looking to make an appointment or in the midst of a severe mental health crisis, your patients look to you for support. A mental health answering service ensures patients reach a live person, not a recorded message suggesting they call back. At notifyMD®, we’ve assisted psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, and other behavioral health professionals for over 30 years.

We support you so that you can support your patients, and we do it in the diverse therapeutic settings your profession works in, from private practices to medical centers and hospitals. Our HIPAA-compliant phone service for therapists ensures a level of confidentiality you and your patients can trust.

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Our 24/7 virtual receptionist for psychologists and other mental health care providers is specifically trained in your field and understands the compassion it demands. Your patients are greeted by a caring professional who provides information, schedules appointments, takes messages, connects them with an on-call provider, or routes urgent calls per your directives.

Trained in your unique protocols, callers feel like they’ve reached one of your staff members, not a third-party answering service. It’s this attention to detail that makes our team an extension of yours.

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    Customizable Solutions for Mental Health Professionals

    At notifyMD®, we’ve developed solutions that enable us to customize your service based on your current needs. As your practice grows, our service grows with you, enhancing the patient-therapist bond while providing you with the uninterrupted time you need for a healthy work-life balance. Thanks to our reliable, virtual mental health answering service, you can rest easy knowing your patients will reach a live person when they call.

    Some of the customizable solutions we offer include:

      • Medical Answering Service: As an answering service for mental health professionals, our highly-trained virtual receptionists are available 24/7.
      • Healthcare Appointment Scheduling: We integrate with your scheduling software to provide up-to-date scheduling, ensuring no missed appointments or double bookings.
      • Secure Messaging: HIPAA-compliant messages remind patients of upcoming appointments, answer questions, and share vital information.
      • Patient Outreach: This proactive service is tailored to your and your patient’s specific needs.
      • Switchboard Services: Hospital switchboard services ensure calls are answered and routed to the appropriate department.
      • Automated Solutions: Automated IVR solutions streamline the caller experience.
      • Triage ServicesNurse triage services provide dedicated registered nurses who guide your patients to the most appropriate level of care.

    Why Therapists Trust Our Mental Health Answering Service

    Therapists know our HIPAA-compliant mental health answering service ensures confidentiality, compassion, and customized directives based on your practice.

    As the first answering service to be HITRUST Certified, our clients trust that we uphold the highest levels of security and privacy regarding patient data and confidential information.

    Our customized approach ensures seamless integration with your practice, including daily reporting that passes on any exchanges and messages to your staff for follow-up.

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    Behavioral Health Clinic Receptionist Scheduling Appointments

    Our Other Specialties

    In addition to our mental health answering service, we also provide virtual assistance to the following medical specialties:

    • Ambulatory Surgery Centers
    • Cardiology
    • Dental
    • Dermatology
    • Gastroenterology
    • Ophthalmology
    • Orthopedic Surgeons
    • Urology

    Whether you work with a virtual receptionist for psychologists or incorporate our answering services for a cardiology-based practice, you can be confident that those representing your practice are well-trained in your specific specialty.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    • Puts your patients’ minds at ease. notifyMD®’s 24/7 live receptionist answering service improves patient access when it matters most.
    • Ensures every urgent patient matter is addressed timely and with the utmost care.
    • Improves patient satisfaction. Every call is answered, and all messages are communicated to the practice.

    • Provides relief to your staff so they can focus on patient care and practice at the top of their license.
    • Offers full transparency of all patient communication with our team in one client-facing portal.
    • Allows practice staff to review and update on-call schedules with a click of a button, ensuring we reach the correct provider with urgent messages.

    • Gives providers a much-needed work/life balance. notifyMD® receptionists follow specific instructions and only send to the provider what is deemed urgent, per provider protocol.
    • Eases communication in the most compliant manner. The notifyMD® app allows providers to view, manage, and address patient needs when and how they prefer to communicate in a HIPAA-compliant, HITRUST-certified method.
    • Saves time to care. The notifyMD® app allows providers to send a patient message to another provider, saving precious time in addressing an urgent clinical need.