Shady Grove Adventist Hospital And Washington Adventist Hospital Select The Beryl Companies To Manage Physician Referral Calls, Online Requests

ROCKVILLE, Md., June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Shady Grove Adventist Hospital and Washington Adventist Hospital have chosen The Beryl Companies to be their outsourced partner to handle telephone and online physician referral services.

“The mission of our hospitals is to deliver excellent health care through a ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing,” Teresa Murphy, director of Marketing, said. “To better meet the needs of the communities we serve we are partnering with The Beryl Companies to assist callers and Internet users with physician referral services. We look forward to enhancing the link between physicians on our medical staffs and the residents of our service area.”

“We are pleased to be partnering with Shady Grove Adventist Hospital and Washington Adventist Hospital to strengthen their ties to their communities,” Paul Spiegelman, CEO of Beryl, said. “Our call advisors will be serving the organizations’ customers via live telephone interaction as well as via the Internet. This integrated approach to serving their customers will help position the hospitals as the providers of choice for Rockville, Takoma Park and the surrounding area.”

Shady Grove Adventist Hospital and Washington Adventist Hospital are part of Adventist HealthCare, an integrated health care delivery system that is one of the largest employers in the state of Maryland. Adventist Healthcare also includes Potomac Ridge Behavioral Health System, Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland, Adventist Senior Living, Adventist Health Careers Training Center, Hackettstown Regional Medical Center, and Adventist Home Health. More information about Adventist HealthCare is available at http://www.adventisthealthcare.com .

Since 1985, more than 500 hospitals, hospital systems and other healthcare organizations have trusted their customers to The Beryl Companies. In that time, Beryl’s call advisors have provided physician/service referrals, health information, telephone nurse triage and class/seminar registration to more than 15 million callers. A million more have interacted with Beryl via email and the Internet. The Dallas Business Journal has named Beryl one of the “Best Places to Work” in the Dallas/Fort Worth area for three consecutive years. More information on Beryl may be obtained at http://www.beryl.net .

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CONTACT: Tom Peck of The Beryl Companies, +1-214-528-9577