Heartland Dental Care Selects Smile Reminder to Streamline Patient Engagement Efforts

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, January 08, 2011 (Press-News.org) Heartland Dental Care, a leading national dental group, has chosen Smile Reminder as its official patient engagement system. With over 280 dental offices nationwide, Heartland Dental Care will be implementing Smile Reminder's state-of-the-art patient engagement service to streamline their practice management communications.

The Enterprise Edition of Smile Reminder is specifically designed to provide group practices, like Heartland Dental Care, assistance in message control within their group. Heartland will support control of content, appearance, and scheduling via the Enterprise dashboard. They'll also receive aggregated feedback and reports regarding each individual practices efforts to retain, reactivate and acquire patients.

"Heartland offices are all about giving their patients choices," says Patrick C. Bauer, President and Chief Operations Officer of Heartland Dental Care Inc. "Partnering with Smile Reminder will allow us to communicate with patients how they want to be communicated with. By the end of March all of our offices will be able to offer interested patients the additional convenience of receiving text and or email communications regarding their appointments and in-office promotions."

The longstanding commitment to patient's needs and professional excellence, shared by both companies, creates a beneficial and synergistic relationship between Heartland Dental Care and Smile Reminder.

"We're thrilled to have one of the nation's leading dental group practices select Smile Reminder," said Jim Higgins, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Smile Reminder. "After a lengthy evaluation process of all patient messaging services, Heartland saw that Smile Reminder's enterprise solution was the best fit for their group."

With this new partnership, Heartland will demonstrate how large group practices can enhance their patient engagement communications at the enterprise level.

"Always at the forefront of practice management innovation, Smile Reminder now caters to group practices by providing enhanced control, execution, and personalization," Higgins continues. "Having streamlined patient engagement services for over ten years, Smile Reminder continues to focus on developing valuable tools to help practices and patients stay in touch."

About Smile Reminder

Smile Reminder, the pioneer in text and email messaging to patients, is the clear leader in providing patient engagement and interaction solutions for healthcare providers. Utilizing the latest automated text/email messaging technologies and social media tools, Smile Reminder equips practices with a "high-tech" solution that does not sacrifice the "high-touch" personalization when reaching out to patients. The Smile Reminder solution includes every type of personalized patient e-communication including appointment reminders, confirmations, recare/recall, new patient referrals, birthday wishes, holiday wishes, surveys, newsletters, customized promotions and more.

For more information, please visit http://www.smilereminder.com.

About Heartland Dental Care

Heartland Dental Care, Inc. is one of the leading dental practice management groups in the United States with more than 280 dental practices located within 17 states. Based in Effingham, Ill., Heartland provides its dentists and team members with continuing professional education and leadership training along with a variety of management services which include staffing, human relations, purchasing, administration, financial, marketing and information technology support.

For more information, visit http://www.HeartlandDentalCare.com.

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