Ambulatory Clinic Panic Buttons & Mass Notification Systems
Ambulatory clinics face distinct security challenges stemming from their open, accessible environments and steady flow of diverse patients. To ensure a safe care setting, clinic staff need reliable methods to request assistance and activate emergency response plans at a moment’s notice, without disrupting patient care.
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Key Security Challenges for Ambulatory Clinics
Lynx offers scalable panic button and notification solutions adapted to the specific needs of urgent care, outpatient practices, community health centers and other ambulatory facilities.
Open access floor plans with multiple entry/exit points
Diverse patient populations with varying health needs and mental states
Protection of sensitive areas like medication rooms and pediatric zones
Reduced staffing during early morning and late evening shifts
Coordination of alerts across waiting areas, exam rooms, and staff spaces
Rapid notification of threats to on-site and off-site personnel
Emergency communications to staff outside the facility
Multidisciplinary team
communication needs
How Does Lynx Improve Safety in Ambulatory Care Settings?
The bustling, high-traffic nature of ambulatory clinics creates various safety risks for staff and patients alike. Open layouts allow free movement around waiting areas, exam rooms, and treatment spaces. Staff work in close physical proximity to patients and family members, sometimes lacking key background information. This increases the potential for tense situations to quickly escalate. Maintaining 24/7 security across parking lots, entryways, reception desks, and clinical areas requires a flexible yet powerful emergency communication system.
Lynx enables ambulatory clinic staff to instantly alert others to emergency events using discreet wireless panic button devices. These can be placed under front desks or worn on lanyards by nurses and providers constantly moving between rooms. When activated, the system immediately notifies designated response teams, on or off-site, with the alert type and origin location through multiple channels including desktop alerts, mobile texts, and overhead announcements. This multi-pronged approach ensures emergency messages quickly reach all necessary personnel.
- Instant alerts from check-in desks, exam rooms, labs, and staff stations
- Discreet fixed or mobile panic buttons for frontline staff
- Silent alarms and emergency door locks for sensitive areas
- Zone-specific notifications to mobilize precise responses
- Automated emergency notifications to on-call providers
- Facility-wide audio notifications and emergency instructions
- Lockdown capabilities for individual rooms or entire clinic
What Ambulatory Care Emergency Scenarios Does Lynx Address?
From single-practitioner clinics to multi-specialty centers, Lynx empowers ambulatory facilities to quickly respond to security, safety, and medical emergency events. The system can be tailored to each clinic’s specific set of risks, protocols and response scenarios.
Personnel & Patient Safety Emergencies:
Integrating Lynx with Current Clinic Security Systems
Rather than a separate, isolated system, Lynx readily integrates with existing clinic security and communication frameworks. The platform acts as a force multiplier for access control, video monitoring, phone systems, and staff devices already in place. By unifying these tools under one emergency management umbrella, Lynx eliminates confusion and enhances readiness with little added complexity. Existing procedures remain intact but become more robust.
Leverage Your Clinic’s Existing Emergency Assets
Ambulatory clinics rely on numerous safety and communication tools in their daily operations. Lynx offers integration capabilities to make all of these systems work together seamlessly in an emergency, with no need to replace current technology investments. By serving as the central coordination hub, Lynx reduces the chance of fragmented, ineffective emergency responses.
The system’s flexibility allows it to adapt to each clinic’s specific devices and procedures, while still providing a framework for quickly disseminating critical information to staff, patients, and visitors. This creates a force multiplier effect, where the clinic gains major emergency response upgrades without the complexity of patchworked systems.
Meeting Regulatory Compliance & Safety Best Practices
Like any healthcare setting, ambulatory clinics face strict emergency preparedness requirements from OSHA, accreditation organizations, and state agencies. Lynx makes compliance simpler through built-in testing, monitoring, and reporting capabilities. The system actively supervises itself to ensure all components remain functional and sends automated alerts for any offline devices.
Implementation, Training & Ongoing System Support
Our implementation team works hand-in-hand with clinic administrators, providers, and staff to assess needs, design the right solution, and seamlessly roll out this added protection without impacting clinic operations.
We provide full training for each staff role, giving your entire team the knowledge to leverage the system’s capabilities during critical events. With 24/7 support and remote diagnostics, Lynx acts as a constant partner in your clinic’s emergency readiness and response.
Testimonials From Healthcare Clients Using Lynx
“We use Lynx at all of our locations several different ways. Our primary use is for duress to call for outside help. We use to send messages to designated locations inside some of our larger buildings. Example is a missing child or a medical emergency. We also integrate with Ccure and use Lynx to unlock doors on the building.”
John Bolin
Nemours Children’s Health System
“For the past 12 years, we have installed the Lynx Duress System into 10 of our hospitals, 5 freestanding community clinics and 2 outpatient behavioral health centers. The flexibility and expandability of the Lynx System, coupled with outstanding tech support from our local integrator, has made the Lynx system a valuable asset within our Network.”
Alan Lynch, CHPA, CHSP, HEM
Network Director-Safety & Security
St. Luke’s University Health Network
“Lynx has created a safer environment for our staff and patients due to their easy to use, scalable, integrative panic button and alerting ecosystem. Our utilization and deployment will continue to expand and grow for years to come.”
Kevin McGinty
Middlesex Hospital
“Lynx is by far the best and most economical facility-wide alert System. We have been using Lynx in our Health System for over 15 years. Customer support is second to none.”
Marvin White
Yale NewHaven Health
