When it comes to customer care, Texas Children’s Hospital doesn’t stop at the nurses’ midnight rounds. We heard about the excellent social customer service they were providing and wanted the full story.
Cara Lovan, the senior social media specialist at Texas Children’s Hospital, spoke with us about how they’re making deeper personal connections and improving customer experiences with social media.
“I think a lot of organizations are beginning to rethink the traditional customer experience,” says Lovan. “As we notice more interactions on social media, we (as an organization) have to grow with them and adapt our strategies. Social media has fundamentally changed the way in which we work with customers. The insights we take from Hootsuite have the power to influence a new wave of thinking for us.”
Customer care and Texas Children’s Hospital: A social story
Texas Children’s Hospital, located in Houston, is one of the top children’s hospitals in the U.S. The hospital system has two community hospitals, a women’s hospital, over 50 pediatric practices, and five urgent care locations.
When it comes to social media, leadership’s top concern is brand and reputation management. They want to avoid a social media PR crisis and aim to resolve customer service issues as quickly and thoroughly as possible.
“We always want to present ourselves as the leading experts in children’s health and information,” says Lovan.
Image via Texas Children’s Hospital.
Lovan uses social customer service to meet leadership’s objectives while working to improve the patient experience.
“We’re in an age where people are turning to social media,” says Lovan. “We want to be where our patients are and meet their expectations. When it comes to social, it’s important for us to respond to everything, both the positive and negative. We want people to know that we’re on social, listening, and ready to have an open dialogue.”
A social media management team of one
Lovan is the only person dedicated to managing social media at Texas Children’s. She manages 13 channels, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Pinterest. She is responsible for driving campaigns, answering questions, resolving issues, and listening to and engaging with customers. To put it lightly, she’s busy.
Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women is celebrating 4 years of miracles today. #pavilionforwomen
Before Hootsuite, it would typically take her three hours every morning to manage her social channels and answer comments, complaints, and general questions.
“I never got to everything before needing to move on to other tasks for the day,” she says. “With Hootsuite, it takes me half the time to do so much more. With that extra hour and a half, I have time to strengthen relationships and engage our audience with a depth that I couldn’t before.”
Handling sensitive customer experiences with humility
Using data pulled from Hootsuite Analytics, Lovan can understand the feedback coming from patients. The majority of comments are positive, but she still needs to work with compliance and family advocacy teams to properly address feedback and understand the root of the problem.
For example, if someone sends a message about how their child is currently in surgery, “we need to pay attention to those comments and their sentiment, and respond with the utmost thoughtfulness,” she says. “This parent is probably having the worst day of his or her life. We have to be efficient in our responses, but also sensitive and human.”
Using Hootsuite keyword search streams, she sees time-sensitive messages right away. She engages with the patient and points them to a service phone number that keeps sensitive information offline and allows them to remain HIPAA compliant. She then alerts the person who manages the line of the incoming patient inquiry.
She can also ask patients to provide their phone number so that a practice manager who deals with specific cases can assist. Because Lovan works with more than 50 practice managers, she has to work quickly, collaboratively, effectively, and with a keen sense of the problem and solution—all with a bit of humility.
Great customer service can lead to lifelong advocates
“Today I had a positive comment come in that I responded to right away,” Lovan shares. “We started a conversation and now the patient’s family is writing a blog for us. We’re taking social to a deeper level of engagement, which is an exciting opportunity that I didn’t always have the time and resources to do before Hootsuite. By having this extra time, we are strengthening relationships, but most importantly, providing a better patient experience.”
Lovan uses Hootsuite to quickly see everything social media-related, all together. This allows her to strike up conversations about positive or negative experiences and dig deeper into stories.
“Our patients often become our biggest advocates and bloggers,” she tells us. “They’ll say something like, ‘Texas Children’s saved my daughter’s life,’ and we’ll reach out to hear more. This is happening more now that we can see what people are saying. Now repeat people come back with more questions because they know we answer their inquiries.”
Creating social campaigns to celebrate advocates
Most of what Texas Children’s shares focuses on babies and children, but for their Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women campaign, they wanted to show some love to the moms. The #ShareYourMoment campaign encourages moms to share an image, story, or experience of the first moment with their newborn babies. This campaign speaks specifically to the hospital’s Pavilion for Women Facebook Page, but is great visual user-generated content for Instagram. “We wanted to focus on the people who are following us and show moms that we’re listening,” Lovan explains.
Lovan monitors the #ShareYourMoment hashtag in a Hootsuite search stream to find new submissions on Facebook and Instagram. Using the Instagram integration in Hootsuite, she can schedule future content and receive reminders before publishing.
A photo posted by Texas Children’s Hospital (@texaschildrens) on Mar 25, 2016 at 11:59am PDT
“I love scheduling on Instagram,” she tells us. “I’m usually on-the-go and busy, and unless it’s right in front of me, I’ll forget to post. This way, my phone notifies me, I press send, and can continue on with my day.”
A photo posted by Texas Children’s Hospital (@texaschildrens) on Mar 18, 2016 at 11:28am PDT
“Since Hootsuite, we’re more engaged, getting better stories out there, and generally more aware of what our followers want to hear from us,” Lovan shares. “We used to respond within 12 to 24 hours of an inquiry. Today, if I can’t respond right away, it’s typically within two hours across any of our profiles. I can finally see what’s going on, everywhere.”
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