Online reputation management in Perinthalmanna

• A review request routine by WhatsApp or SMS after discharge or consultation, sent only to patients who agreed to be contacted
• Reply drafts for every new review in English or Malayalam, approved by you and posted within an agreed time
• A negative review protocol: a privacy-safe public reply, internal escalation and an offline route to resolve the complaint
• Separate monitoring of individual doctors' ratings on Google and Practo
• Alerts for new reviews and for mentions of your institution or doctors in news and social media
• A monthly insight note for management on what patients praise and complain about, such as billing clarity, waiting time or parking

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   Baseline. We record ratings, review volume, reply rate and recent complaint themes on every platform, and compare them with nearby competitors in Perinthalmanna. In Perinthalmanna, the benchmark is the three nearest hospitals and clinics on Google Maps.
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   Set up. We claim and correct listings, agree when and how patients are asked for reviews, and build consent capture into the request.
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   Train. We run short sessions for front-desk and billing staff on asking every patient for a review the same neutral way, with no targets or pressure, and on logging complaints properly.
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   Reply and report. We draft replies to every review for quick approval, flag serious ones to you as a priority, and report rating trends and recurring issues every month. By day 90 you can see which searches around Perinthalmanna bring calls, and the budget follows them.

Perinthalmanna is a small town with many hospitals: EMS Memorial Co-operative Hospital, Moulana Hospital on Ooty Road, KIMS Al Shifa and the government District Hospital, with MES Medical College close by at Palachode. Around them are many clinics, labs, scan centres and pharmacies, and the town draws patients from across eastern Malappuram and the neighbouring parts of Palakkad district. Patients travel in from Mannarkkad, Pattambi, Malappuram and the Nilambur side, often with a relative and a referral letter, and Gulf earnings pay for private care in many families; they compare hospitals by consultant name and word of mouth, then check Google and WhatsApp for timings.

We run online reputation management by specialty, because multispecialty hospitals and dental clinics in Perinthalmanna are searched for in different ways:

• Multispecialty hospital marketing in PerinthalmannaSeveral hospitals and a private medical college sit within a few kilometres of Jubilee Junction, so a Perinthalmanna hospital competes department by department, and named consultants, OP days and facilities are what families compare.
• Dental clinic marketing in PerinthalmannaPatients around Perinthalmanna can also use the clinics of the private dental college at Palachode, so a dental practice in town needs to show what it adds, such as appointment times, a named dentist and clear explanations of treatment plans.
• Physiotherapy clinic marketing in PerinthalmannaMany patients treated in Perinthalmanna's hospitals live an hour or more away in Mannarkkad, Pattambi or towards Nilambur, so physiotherapy clinics here are often used for a short block of sessions before the patient goes home, or to plan home exercises and follow-up.
• Diagnostic centre marketing in PerinthalmannaMany patients reach Perinthalmanna with a referral letter and a list of tests from a doctor elsewhere and want everything done in one trip, so a lab or scan centre that publishes its test list, fasting instructions and report times saves them a return journey.

A working request routine and reply process is usually running within the first month, and review volume often rises once staff start asking consistently. The average rating moves slowly, over several months, because it reflects patient experience, which we can help you hear and act on but cannot manufacture. Reputation management is usually a monthly retainer, often combined with Google Business Profile management. Scope depends on the number of locations and doctors monitored, the platforms covered, expected review volume and whether staff training is included. Extra support during a review attack or a media issue can be added on agreed terms. See how our pricing works.

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From Perinthalmanna, our office opposite Aster Medcity is about 145 km, roughly three and a half to four hours by road. Patients here often search by landmark, such as Jubilee Junction, Ooty Road and Angadipuram, so local pages and your Google Business Profile have to use those names.

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Can you write reviews for us, or get our staff and their families to post them?

No. Reviews written by the business or its staff, bought, or rewarded with a discount break Google's policies, can be removed by the platform and can be treated as misleading under consumer-protection law. What we do is make it easy for every patient who agreed to be contacted to leave their own review, asked the same neutral way, and reply to every review that comes in. The NMC's October 2026 advertising guidelines also bar doctors and hospitals from soliciting fake, paid or misleading reviews, and say a doctor should not request reviews for professional promotion on social media, so we agree with you, and your legal adviser where needed, who sends review requests and how.

A review accuses one of our doctors of negligence. What should we do?

Do not reply in anger or discuss the treatment, even if the reviewer has shared details publicly. Escalate it to management and your legal adviser first, then post a short, privacy-safe reply inviting the person to contact a named senior person directly. We draft that reply and the internal escalation note, and treat such reviews ahead of routine replies.

How long before the Google rating of our hospital or clinic improves?

Review volume can rise within weeks once staff ask consistently, but the average rating changes slowly, especially if you already have many reviews. It improves fastest when the complaints patients repeat, such as waiting time or billing, are actually fixed, which is why we report those themes to management every month.