Carson-Tahoe Hospital Joins with The Beryl Companies To Offer Physician Referral Services to the Community.Business/Medical Editors DALLAS--(BW HealthWire)--March 29, 2000 The Beryl Companies, one of the nation's leading call center organizations, has entered into an agreement to provide outsourced physician referral physician referral A physician's recommendation to a Pt to consult another physician for a 2nd opinion. Cf Self-referral. services on behalf of Carson-Tahoe Hospital in Nevada. Located in the State capital of Carson City Carson City, city (1990 pop. 40,443), state capital, W Nev., in the Eagle valley; inc. 1875. The city is a trade center for a mining and agricultural area. State government is the major employer, and tourism is economically important. , Carson-Tahoe Hospital is a not-for-profit, city- and county-owned facility serving a community of approximately 90,000. Among the many programs it offers residents of Carson City and Reno are a Cancer Resource Center and a Women's and Children's Center opened in 1997. Two years ago the hospital also opened Minden Medical Center, an emergency/urgent care center in neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. Gardnerville. Under the terms of this new agreement, Beryl will provide sophisticated physician referral services, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for the 200-bed hospital. This includes providing callers with specific information on more than 150 physicians in their area; matching callers preferences concerning insurance coverage, areas of specialty and geographic location; and even directly linking the caller to the physician's office so as to facilitate an initial appointment. Since its founding it 1984, The Beryl Companies has provided outbound and inbound telemarketing telemarketing, the practice of selling goods or services to customers by means of the telephone or of surveying consumer preferences in telephone conversations. services to more than 500 healthcare-related organizations nationwide. From its 50,000 square-foot, multi-million dollar call center in Dallas, Beryl provides hospitals, managed care organizations, community agencies, medical groups and government entities across the country an expanding portfolio of information support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services including outsourced call center services, telephone nurse triage triage Division of patients for priority of care, usually into three categories: those who will not survive even with treatment; those who will survive without treatment; and those whose survival depends on treatment. and Web site development/hosting. |
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