MedAccess Urgent Care

Overview

Number of Locations: 3
Customer Since: 2016

MedAccess Urgent Care is a locally owned, locally operated urgent care with three locations in North Carolina: Roxboro, Youngsville, and Chapel Hill.

The Challenge

Registration, Performance, and Insight

In February and April of 2016, MedAccess implemented Experity Patient Engagement in their Youngsville and Roxboro locations with the following goals:

Improve wait and registration times
Gain insight into individual clinic performance
Address the disparity between new and current patient registration processes

After implementing Experity Patient Engagement, MedAccess gained immediate access to wait time and throughput data, allowing them to identify additional areas for improvement that weren’t originally on their radar.

Experity Patient Engagement has revolutionized the way we conduct business in our clinics.

It is simple, efficient, and easy to use. It has increased our efficiency and taken our customer service to a new level.

Nate Haines

Vice President of Marketing and Business DevelopmentMedAccess

The Solution

Projecting Wait Times with 95% Accuracy

As MedAccess began implementing their new online scheduling system, they used feedback from their teams to customize Experity Patient Engagement to fit their needs.

This included integrating Experity Patient Engagement with their EMR for maximum visibility into the patient experience.

As patients register online or in the clinic, they are sorted into separate provider queues based on the provider they are seeing. This is useful for provider staff to see which patients are in the room. It also helps provide accurate wait time projections for each individual patient, helping to smooth out the process of transitioning patients from registration to clinical care.

95 percent of patients are seen either on time or early at both clinics, and average wait times are less than 15 minutes.

Solutions Used

Patient Engagement

The Results

Reporting On Patient Throughput and Satisfaction

For the MedAccess team, one of the most valuable aspects of Experity Patient Engagement has been reporting. With detailed insight into their patient throughput, as well as candid feedback on each provider gathered via Experity Patient Engagement patient surveys, they have been able to see where bottlenecks are occurring, identify staff members who need additional training, and more.

Using this data, MedAccess has begun to make changes that have greatly impacted the patient experience, such as:

Improving the waiting experience with patient-centric upgrades to the lobby spaces
Hiring additional staff to cover heavy traffic periods, based on heat maps generated by Experity Patient Engagement
Doubling staff coverage at specific bottleneck times

Final Thoughts

When asked how likely they were to recommend MedAccess to others, patients responded with an average score of 4.8 out of 5.
At both clinics using Experity Patient Engagement, 95 percent of patients are called back on time or early.
The average wait for patients with online reservations is between -2 and 0 minutes, meaning most patients were seen before their actual appointment time.
Each MedAccess clinic averages between 12 and 15 minutes for patient throughput from check-in to registration to room.
In the few months since MedAccess implemented Experity Patient Engagement, they have increased online patient volume by two to three times at each of their clinics.