Built for Urgent Care clinics
Turn urgent care phone calls into booked visits
Stop losing patients to voicemail and hold music. FrontDesk handles emergency triage 24/7, so every caller gets triaged in seconds.
The Problem
Why urgent care centers need emergency triage
These challenges cost clinics thousands in lost revenue every month.
Callers can’t self-assess urgency
Patients call asking whether their injury or symptom is "bad enough" for urgent care or needs the ER. Without guidance they guess — often wrong.
True emergencies walk into urgent care
Someone with cardiac symptoms shows up at urgent care because no one told them to call 911 — costing critical minutes.
Surges make phone triage impossible
During cold-and-flu season the front desk simply can’t answer and triage every call while managing a full waiting room.
The Solution
How FrontDesk handles emergency triage
AI-powered emergency triage built specifically for urgent care clinics.
patient calls your center
Whether during business hours or at midnight, the AI answers instantly and begins the emergency triage process.
AI handles the process
Through natural conversation, the AI manages every step of emergency triage specific to your center's protocols.
visit booked or action taken
The process completes with a booked visit, captured information, or appropriate routing - all in under 2 minutes.
Your team is notified
Staff gets instant notifications with full context, so they can follow up on anything that needs personal attention.
In their words
What urgent care patients ask during emergency triage calls
Urgent care lives in the gap between routine and emergency, and the phone is where that sorting starts. AI triage tells callers when to come in, when to wait, and when to call 911 — while capturing pre-registration so the ones who should be seen are in your queue before they arrive.
Is my injury something urgent care can treat, or do I need the ER?
I cut myself badly — should I come in for stitches?
How long is the wait right now?
Can I pre-register so I’m seen faster?
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Before vs After
What changes when you add FrontDesk
See the difference AI-powered emergency triage makes for your clinic.
Run the numbers
How many after-hours pages AI can prevent
Estimate the routine calls handled without waking your on-call team.
Routine after-hours calls handled per month — without paging you
Assumes about 88% of after-hours calls are routine, not true emergencies.
Illustrative estimate based on typical urgent care benchmarks. Your numbers will vary.
Key Features
Emergency Triage features for urgent care clinics
Purpose-built capabilities for your clinic's specific needs.
24/7 Emergency Triage
AI handles emergency triage around the clock - no gaps, no voicemail, no delays.
Urgent Care-Specific
Configured with urgent care centers-specific terminology, protocols, and best practices.
Instant Notifications
Your team gets real-time alerts for every completed emergency triage action.
Is this you?
Is FrontDesk right for your urgent care clinic?
If any of these sound familiar, emergency triage with FrontDesk is built for you.
FAQ
Emergency Triage for Urgent Care - Common Questions
Everything you need to know about AI-powered emergency triage for your clinic.
FrontDesk's AI is trained to recognize emergency indicators through natural conversation - symptoms, urgency language, and clinical red flags specific to your practice type. It uses configurable triage protocols to determine the appropriate response.
Based on your configured protocols, the AI can: route to your on-call provider via call transfer, provide emergency instructions, direct to the nearest ER or emergency line, or provide crisis resources - all in real-time.
Absolutely. You define what constitutes an emergency for your practice, set up routing rules for different urgency levels, and configure after-hours escalation paths. The AI follows your protocols precisely.
Yes. The AI handles routine after-hours calls (scheduling, refills, general questions) independently, only escalating true emergencies to your on-call team. Most practices see a 70-80% reduction in unnecessary pages.
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