AI by industry · Veterinary clinics
AI receptionist for veterinary clinics
An AI receptionist for a vet clinic answers when your team is hands-on with animals. It books wellness visits and vaccines, takes refill requests for staff to approve, and answers questions about hours or what to bring. If an owner describes an emergency, it directs them to emergency care and alerts your team.
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Calls that can be handled
Most calls are routine: book a vaccine, ask about boarding, check whether a refill is ready, find out hours. An assistant that handles these frees your techs for the animals in front of them.
After hours, the same assistant can say that the clinic is closed, offer to book a visit in the morning and give the number for the emergency hospital you work with.
Calls that need a human
Owners can be frightened or upset, especially about a sick pet or end-of-life decisions. These calls need a person with a calm voice.
The assistant should recognize urgent wording, such as trouble breathing, a possible poisoning or a hit by car, and send those calls to a person or emergency care right away.
Picture this
Examples of what it can look like in a veterinary clinic. Illustrations, not clients.
An owner calls to ask if the clinic is open Saturday. The assistant answers and offers a visit time.
A client asks for a refill on a pet’s regular medication. The assistant takes the request, and a technician checks with the veterinarian.
A caller says their dog may have eaten something toxic. The assistant tells them where to get urgent help and alerts your team.
Map your clinic in Westward’s Brain
Enter your website. The Brain reads it and shows every step of your veterinary clinic that could run on its own, and what we would build first. Free, about 20 seconds, no sign-up.
Not ready? See an example map
Questions
Can it approve prescriptions?
No. A veterinarian decides. It only collects the request.
Will owners mind talking to AI?
Many do not mind for simple tasks. We suggest telling callers and always offering a way to reach a person.
What if someone is grieving?
It should hand the call to a person. Those moments are not for AI.
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