Callnovo

home health

Caregivers are in the field. Someone still needs to answer the phone.

AI confirms visit times and caregiver ETAs and takes scheduling requests; a person takes every report of a change in condition and pages your on-call clinician under your protocol.

A nurse uses a stethoscope for a home check-up on a senior adult in a cozy living room.

how it plays out

Real contacts, minute by minute.

Phone Spanish

“My nurse hasn’t arrived yet”

Missed visit inquiries create anxiety and require immediate resolution

  1. AI identified the scheduled caregiver and visit window
  2. Checked caregiver status and found they were running late from prior visit
  3. Provided patient with updated ETA of 20 minutes
  4. Notified scheduling coordinator to adjust remaining route
ETA provided patient reassured, schedule adjusted
Web Chat Mandarin

“I need to add a second weekly visit for wound care”

Care-plan changes need a physician order the agency obtains.

  1. AI documented the request and the reason given
  2. Checked caregiver availability for a second weekly slot
  3. Routed the request to the care coordinator for the physician order
  4. Told the family who will confirm and when
Request routed order stays with the agency
SMS Haitian Creole

“What time is my physical therapy visit tomorrow?”

Schedule confirmation is the most frequent patient inquiry

  1. AI matched patient to tomorrow’s visit schedule
  2. Confirmed PT visit at 10am with therapist Maria
  3. Included therapist contact number for day-of changes
  4. Reminded patient to have insurance card available
Schedule confirmed no staff time used
Phone English

“I’m a caregiver and my patient’s condition changed”

Any change in condition goes to a person and then to your on-call clinician.

  1. A live agent takes the call — condition changes are never routed to AI
  2. Records what changed, in the caller’s words, and when it started
  3. Pages the on-call clinician under the agency’s escalation protocol, or directs the caller to 911 where the protocol says so
  4. Logs who was paged and when
On-call clinician paged escalation documented

the team behind it

Faces, not a queue.

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Home Health Care Coordinators

  • Caregiver scheduling and visit-time confirmation
  • Care-plan change requests routed to your coordinators for physician orders
  • Changes in condition escalated to your on-call clinician under your protocol

65+ Languages

  • Human agents providing support in 65+ languages
  • Real-time AI translation for rare language pairs
  • Cultural context training for every market we serve

Follow-the-Sun Coverage

  • Operation centres in Canada, Bolivia, Nicaragua, the Philippines and China
  • Smooth handoff between time zones with shared context
  • Holiday and weekend coverage without overtime costs

the part nobody prices in

Keep visit requests connected to the care coordinator

When a family calls about a missed visit, the next step depends on the scheduled visit and the agency contact who can confirm a change. Agree which schedule agents may consult and what they should do when it has no current update. Keep the visit reference, requested change and coordinator’s response together, so the next shift can explain what has been confirmed.

Set up HeroDash custom fields for the visit reference, request category and coordinator handling the case. Cascading categories can separate scheduling questions from referral intake. For a routine case awaiting a reply, a configured trigger can add a follow-up tag and email the assigned agent when the ticket status changes. The conversation timeline records that rule execution. Reports of a change in condition follow your immediate live-agent and on-call escalation protocol.

A referral handoff should contain the information your intake team has approved for collection, the referring contact and the question still unanswered. Agree access permissions and the channel for sending patient information before service starts. Your care team confirms care-plan changes and clinical decisions; support records the agreed next contact without treating a scheduling request as an approved visit.

what comes off the call

A usable visit or referral handoff

Agree the required information and access permissions during setup.

  • Visit or referral reference permitted in the support record
  • Caller’s relationship to the patient and approved callback channel
  • Scheduled visit window and the source of any confirmed update
  • Scheduling change, referral question or other administrative request
  • Care coordinator or on-call contact and handoff acknowledgment
  • Confirmed next step and the person responsible for the callback

questions

What buyers ask before they sign.

How much does it cost?

AI voice is US$0.15 per minute and web chat is US$0.15 per session. Live agents start at US$650 per month including 1,500 minutes — about US$0.43 per minute — or from US$5.80 per hour for a dedicated agent working only your account. The minimum engagement is half a seat, not a five-seat block.

How fast can you start answering our phones?

Five days is our normal window to staff a live account — that is five days to find and place an agent who fits your business, not five days of software setup. AI voice can go live sooner because there is no hiring step.

Do you answer in Spanish?

Yes, on the same number, with agents in our Bolivia and Nicaragua operation centres — native Spanish, not machine translation. English and Spanish share one queue, and we cover 60+ more languages if you need them.

Can I mix AI and live agents on one number?

That is the normal setup. You decide which call types go to AI and which reach a person, and you can change the split as your volume changes. Nothing about that decision is locked in at signup.

How does an answering service handle a missed home health visit?

Agents follow the agency’s schedule-access and escalation rules, capture the visit reference and contact the designated coordinator when the available record does not explain the delay. The coordinator confirms revised arrangements. Any reported change in condition follows the immediate live-agent and on-call protocol.

What information should a referral handoff include?

Use the intake team’s approved checklist and collection channel. Record the referring contact, permitted patient reference, requested service and outstanding question. The agency decides whether to accept the referral and how care will be arranged.

compliance

HIPAA & Home Health Compliance

  • Business Associate Agreement (BAA)
  • Encrypted patient communication and visit documentation
  • Role-based access with a per-agent audit trail

start

Walk through a visit or referral handoff

Bring your call-handling instructions, approved intake fields and on-call contact process to plan coverage.