Medical Answering Service in Ottawa, Ontario.
Every missed medical call in Ottawa is a customer your competitor just booked.
Ottawa, Ontario
National Capital Region
Keep your number
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24/7 answering
Eastern Time
90+ languages
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BotsDontSleep is a 24/7 answering service for Ottawa medical practices. It answers calls in English and French, applies your triage protocol, books and reschedules patients, and routes urgent calls to the on-call physician — $0.60 per minute.
Why do Ottawa medical practices lose calls?
Ottawa medical practices straddle a provincial border, which means bilingual triage is a practical requirement rather than a preference — patients from Gatineau routinely use Ottawa clinics and specialists. Appointment demand also concentrates at opening and after the public-service workday ends. A missed after-hours symptom call in this environment usually ends in an emergency room visit that a triage conversation could have avoided.
Which calls does it answer for you in Ottawa?
- Bilingual after-hours symptom calls needing protocol-based triage
- Opening-time booking surges when the main line is engaged
- Prescription renewals and results enquiries that do not need a clinician
- Referral and specialist-coordination calls from other practices
- Late-afternoon booking calls from patients finishing a public-service day
The receptionist runs your approved triage protocol in the caller's language, escalates anything meeting your urgency criteria to the on-call physician immediately, books routine appointments into live availability, and files renewals and results requests as structured tasks with full transcripts.
What does it cost in Ottawa?
$0 setup and $0.60 per answered minute, with no monthly minimum and no contract. A single-location medical business in Ottawa typically spends $150 to $500 a month. A live answering service charges $1.50 to $3.00 a minute plus setup, and a full-time front-desk hire covers about 40 of the 168 hours in a week. Full numbers are on the answering service cost page.
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See the general Ottawa answering service page, the national medical practices page, or a Ottawa virtual receptionist if you are comparing against hiring.
Ottawa medical answering service FAQs
- What's the real monthly cost for a family practice?
- No setup charge and no minimum commitment — just $0.60 CAD per answered minute. A practice with 400 minutes of patient calls a month typically pays under $240, compared with $1.50-$3.00 a minute for a live medical answering line.
- How soon could our clinic switch this on?
- Around one week, including loading your approved triage protocol, connecting your booking system, and reviewing sample call transcripts with your clinical lead before launch.
- Does it stay open on statutory holidays when the office is closed?
- Yes. Coverage runs 24/7/365, including federal holidays when Ottawa's public-service patient base still gets sick and still calls, and urgent cases are escalated to your on-call physician the same way as any other night.
- Can it triage a French-speaking Gatineau patient's symptoms after hours?
- Yes. Your approved protocol runs identically in French, detected automatically from the caller's first sentence, so a symptom call at 9pm gets the same triage questions regardless of language.
- How does it decide something is urgent versus routine?
- It follows the exact triage protocol your clinicians sign off on — no independent clinical judgment is made. Anything meeting your defined urgency threshold is escalated by call and SMS to the on-call physician immediately.
- Can patients book directly instead of leaving a callback request?
- Yes, for routine appointments it books directly into your live schedule. Only calls matching your escalation rules skip booking and go straight to the on-call physician.
- What happens to the practice's phone number?
- Nothing changes for patients. You forward your existing office line, and there's no contract if you decide to stop.
- Is a nurse-staffed telephone triage line a better option?
- For clinical judgment calls, that's a separate decision for your team. For simple call volume — the noon rush, the after-4pm rush, weekend symptom calls — this answers every call at $0.60 a minute instead of $1.50-$3.00, at unlimited capacity.
- Does it help with the prescription renewal backlog at reception?
- Yes. Renewal requests are logged as structured tasks with patient, medication, and pharmacy details, so your desk staff clear a list once instead of fielding the same call repeatedly through the day.
- Does it triage in both English and French?
- Yes. The same protocol runs in either language, detected from the caller's first sentence, which matters for Ottawa practices seeing patients from both sides of the river.
- Who decides what counts as urgent?
- You do. We implement the triage protocol your clinicians approve, and the receptionist follows it exactly, escalating to your on-call physician by call and SMS when the criteria are met.
- Can it handle prescription renewal requests?
- Yes. It captures the patient, medication, pharmacy, and last-issued details as a structured task for your team, so those calls stop consuming front-desk time without any clinical decision being made.
Last reviewed: August 2026. Pricing and capability details verified against our current service.
Stop losing Ottawa medical calls
Forward your existing Ottawa number and every caller is answered on the first ring, in their language, at any hour — for $0 setup and $0.60 per minute.