Industry Leading Customer Service

At Daniels Health, we pride ourselves on providing industry- leading customer service for disposal of any medical waste. Even throughout the pandemic we delivered 98.75% of our pickups in full and on time, meaning you can always count on us to reliably handle your needs.

Circle Shauna Sharpsmart 1Founded out of a passion for Healthcare Safety, Daniels Health is committed to service that amplifies quality of care.

Even with a 98.75% service success rate, our commitment to customer service means our partners always know exactly how to get in touch with a human being as soon as needs arise. Through your dedicated account manager every customer request is captured within our shared organizational database, thereby ensuring correct assignment, transparency across the organization, and issue escalation.

Every Daniels Department (Sales, Operations, Customer Excellence, AR, Billing, Contracts, Field Service) has Case Management integrated into their workflows, supporting seamless action of customer needs accross the business and accountability for follow-through.

WE DRIVE CUSTOMER-RESOLUTION ACCOUNTABILITY VIA:

  • Business Unit ownership and daily follow-up of all cases that affect customers in their region (irrespective of issue)
  • Inbuilt escalation process up to the C-Suite for all case closures that fall outside of acceptable response parameters
  • Internal root cause analysis of all complaints, with outcomes and corrective actions communicated back to the customer
  • Email sent to customer as soon as a case is opened, and closed, with opportunity to complete a short feedback survey
  • Weekly operational calls with all operations leaders to review performance dashboards, exception reporting, and cases
  • Weekly customer service call with all customer service leads across the business to review outstanding cases and time to close metrics
  • Weekly Senior Leadership Team review of all outstanding cases, customer complaints, and issue escalation

Service reliability and excellence

As a business, we are passionate about redefining clinical and service excellence in healthcare waste management. Daniels completes regular NPS surveys with our customer base to get an overall view of the satisfaction of our service as well as continual customer touchpoints to ensure all service aspects are being met and no issues remain outstanding. These wellness checks touch every aspect of our customer relationship including staff support, service, quality, billing and stock availability. Daniels Health utilizes Salesforce.com across our business to log all customer issues, installations and orders, track and resolve, and escalate if required to ensure resolution and satisfaction for all issues.

Cohesive Customer Ownership

98.75% Successful Deliveries

Industry-Best NPS Scores

We Put Our Customers First.

With our owner and visionary founder Dan Daniels still leading our team at Daniels Health, we are as passionate about Healthcare Safety and Service Excellence as the day the business was established in Dan’s home garage. We understand the critical role we play in ensuring patient excellence and clinician safety, to this end, across our organization, we drive the highest standards of proactive communication, service reliability and customer responsiveness.

Unparalleled Service

Daniels Health prides itself on its Customer Excellence with commitment and accomplishment that achieves:

  1. 98.75% DIFOT score, for every 100 Services, we achieve 98.75 complete + on time
  2. 60.3% NPS score attesting to quality, consistency + reliability of service
  3. 100% service accountability from every role right up to our Senior Leadership
  4. 100% issue resolution with tracked escalation to ensure no matter is unresolved

Daniels Health delivers all services with a direct understanding of our impact on healthcare quality and patient care

  • CHANGING WASTE NEEDS

    If a customer has more waste volume than usual, we adjust our route capacity to compensate; each business unit reviews routes daily and root-causes missed stops within 24 hours.

  • MISSED PICKUPS

    If we do miss a stop, routes are corrected within 24 hours and that particular customer/facility is prioritized early on the next day route, guaranteeing service

  • CUSTOMER SURVEYS

    NPS surveys are conducted every 4 months. If any rating below 6 is received, a salesforce case is created and assigned to relevant members of the organization for corrective action

  • ISSUE ESCALATION

    All customer resolution cases undergo a ‘root-cause’ analysis and anything unactioned with reasonable resolution is escalated up to our Senior Leadership Team

Daniels Contingency Planning

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Our Service Commitment

Daniels Health prides itself on the highest level of customer service, support services and quality assurance. Across our national footprint we have an extensive agile network of local and centralized talent driving business continuity, with national service contingencies in place for increased fluctuations in waste volumes and service scheduling. Across all of our business units we maintain a surplus of bins, staff and fleet capacity to accommodate surge demands.

2

Waste Processing Contingencies

Daniels operates a network of processing plants and transfer stations across the USA. This network provides contingency options in the event a plant becomes inoperable ensuring continuity of service. These contingencies were successfully implemented in 2012 after Hurricane Sandy, and through the implementation of the Disaster Recovery Plan, Daniels was able to manage and maintain service to all customers in the affected areas.

3

Container Stock + Distribution

In addition to containers installed onsite at your facility (including spares held in onsite stores) Daniels holds buffer stock at processing plants around the country, and further quantities in our National Warehouse. This provides for increased waste volumes that arise from flu season each year as well as contingency planning for unforeseen events. Our supply chain is managed in the US with local manufacturing able to support volume surges. All our clean facilities have processing capacity, logistical infrastructure and staff resources manage associated volume fluctuations.

4

Transport + Service Reliability

If a transportation vehicle breaks down in route to our customers’ facility, the problem can usually be rectified while on scene. In the rare cases vehicles have to be towed to a repair facility, if available, an additional truck will be dispatched to complete the customer service. If there is no truck available, supplies will be couriered to the customer at the cost of Daniels, and service will resume on the next planned service day. Customer inventory and par levels are set so that customers will have up to 48 hours of contingency stock on hand.

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Quality Control

We take quality complaints extremely seriously. In the extremely rare event that a container is delivered to you, and you believe it does not meet the quality guarantee that Daniels offers, a full internal investigation into the incident is opened. This investigation entails follow up from customer service management, transportation management, operations management and quality management departments as applicable. Full review and findings of the concerns are logged and a comprehensive report is provided to you.

6

Labour Shortages

Daniels employees are not unionized. A strike situation is not a concern. In the case of unforeseen health pandemics such as COVID-19, Daniels proactively employs surplus labor to account for any shortages. In the event additional labor is required, Daniels inhouse recruitment team have contingency planning for temporary labor replacement that can be deployed within 24 hours. Across all of our national facilities we have a network of management support and cross-trained labor that can be redeployed to areas most affected, and Daniels internal training processes, SOPs and standardized operational procedures across all of our business units enable fast effective onboarding, cross-functional support and workforce continuity effectiveness.

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Manufacturing + Supply Chain

Manufacturing dependency is mitigated by Daniels owning their own set of tools required for the manufacture of sharps and other healthcare waste containers. Outsourcing supply to a number of local manufacturing facilities in Michigan further mitigates reliance on any single manufacturing arrangement.

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