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Sam Wass Tree Surgeons
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Residential care
Queenswood Care Home: built around how families actually choose
A care home website designed for the person researching at eleven at night, not for the brochure.
The situation
Choosing a care home is not a normal purchase. It is usually made under time pressure, often by an adult child rather than the resident, frequently late at night, and almost always while the person doing the research feels underqualified to be making the decision at all.
Most care home websites are written for the wrong reader. They describe facilities in the language of the sector rather than answering the questions a worried family actually has: what it costs, what happens next, whether there is a room, and what it is like to be there.
What we built
A website organised around those questions, with the enquiry route reachable from every page and photography that shows the home as it is rather than as a stock library imagines it.
The enquiry system captures enough detail for the home to respond usefully first time, which matters, because a family making this decision is contacting several homes in one evening — and the one that replies with a real answer rather than a brochure request tends to be the one they visit.
What we handle underneath
We host the site, keep it patched and backed up, and handle the domain, SSL and DNS. For a care provider that continuity matters more than usual: enquiries are the pipeline, and a site that is down on a Sunday evening is a family calling somewhere else.
It is also why we answer the phone at the weekend. Our support hours run 9am to 9pm, seven days a week, because the problems that cost a care home money do not confine themselves to Monday to Friday.
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