Appointment Slots
Constantly booking appointments can be time consuming and it takes some coordinating to get your clients booked. You can cut time and allow your clients the ability to set up their own appointments by using Google appointment slots.
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The appointment slots feature lets you set one period of time on your calendar, divided into available time slots for people to reserve. For instance, professors can have their students reserve. Setup Reoccurring Bookable Appointment Slots. Deselect all calendars and select only your new calendar. In our case it’s “Conference Appointment” Click on any date or time and a popup will open. Select “Appointment Slots” tab and click “More Options” button. On a new tab that’ll open up enter name of your slot. Appointment slots are useful when you don't know who needs to meet with you, but you want to make yourself available. You can offer people a block of time on your calendar that they can book time. The Self-service page has the ability to display all the appointment times in the end-user's time zone, which can be turned off if desired. If Always show time slots in business time zone remains unchecked on the Bookings page tab, then people visiting the page will see time slots in their own local time zones.
Here’s some examples on how to use Google appointment slots:
- If you are holding meetings for potential clients, you can create a new appointment slot, send the link to your clients, and they can directly book a time themselves.
- Say you run a Yoga studio you can create an appointment slot on your calendar for clients to reserve private Yoga sessions. Just email the appointment slot link to your clients and let them pick a time.
- If you are a teacher and you want to make available time slots for you students to book with you for one-on-one tuition, just create your “Tuition Booking” appointment slot and let them reserve a time.
To learn how to get started sharing an Google appointment slots see below:
* You will need to have a Google Apps account to create Appointment Slots. You can create a Google Apps account for as low as $5/month here.
Setting Up Appointment Slots
1.Go to Google Calendar and click on the date you want to set for the appointment slots.
2.In the event box, click “Appointment slots”
3.Enter the details of the appointment
4.Once you are done hit “Create”
Invite Others to Book Appointments
Now you can begin to send out invites for users to book their appointments inside the newly created appointment slot.
1.Go to back Google Calendar and click the appointment slot event on the calendar, then click on “Edit Details”
2.Copy the calendar’s appointment page link found at the top of the event
Email this link to people looking to book an appointment.
And you’re done. After receiving the link, clients would need to click on a time slot to book it and once a time is booked, the time is filled in and un-bookable by others.
You can now set up Google appointment slots on your calendar and have them filled out by those you invite with the appointment slot’s link.
This feature will make setting up appointments andscheduling meetings a breeze. Plus it only take a few minutes to set up.
You can learn more about cool Gmail features here.
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Houston Health Department
Houston Health Department opening new COVID-19 vaccination appointment slots
January 22, 2021
UPDATE 2 - People who registered for one of the new appointments slots and received a QR code confirmation without a date and time will be contacted starting Saturday to schedule a date and time for vaccination.
UPDATE - The Houston Health Department's 1,600 new COVID-19 vaccination appointment slots filled in approximately five minutes of opening at 4 p.m.
More appointment opportunities will be announced as supply increases.
People who fall under Phase 1A or 1B of the state’s criteria can visit HoustonEmergency.org/covid19 (or http://bit.ly/HHDvaccine) starting at 4 p.m. on January 22 to register. The appointment portal will close when the slots are full.
Appointments are only confirmed upon receipt of an email or text message and confirmation numbers will be verified on site.
The new appointments are for the department’s new drive-thru vaccination site at Delmar Stadium, operated by United Memorial Medical Center, opening Monday.
People who show up without confirmed appointments will be turned away.
The health department received an additional 9,000 doses of vaccine on Friday. In addition to the 1,600 new appointment slots, the department will transfer 800 doses to other providers, vaccinate approximately 900 people turned away from Minute Maid Park last Saturday, and fulfill existing appointments at Bayou City Event Center, its health centers and multi-service centers.
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“We are pleased to operate two mass vaccination sites next week, one the city’s north and another on the south side. These two locations make the vaccine more accessible to all, complementing the health department’s health centers and multi-service centers,” said Mayor Sylvester Turner. “As we receive more vaccine, we will expand partnerships with pharmacies and federally qualified health centers to ensure the vaccine is available in the most vulnerable communities and deploy mobile strike teams as needed.”
The department plans to announce new appointment opportunities weekly, based on supply.
People can learnabout new appointment opportunities through email, text message, voice call, or mobile app push notification by registering for the HoustonRecovers subscription of AlertHouston at AlertHouston.org.
Appointments are based on vaccine availability and may be adjusted based on the department’s supply.
As of January 21, the department administered a total of 29,751 doses of vaccine at locations including Minute Maid Park, Bayou City Event Center, its Northside, La Nueva Casa de Amigos, Sharpstown and Sunnyside health centers, the JW Peavy Senior Center, and its Acres Homes, Hiram Clarke and Magnolia multi-service centers.
People who received their first dose of vaccine through the health department will be contacted about scheduling their second dose before the recommended due date. Please check voicemails, text messages and emails frequently for information.
The department currently provides the Moderna vaccine. Moderna’s second dose is recommended 28 days after the first dose. Updated guidance from CDC says 'the second dose should be administered as close to the recommended interval as possible. However, if it is not feasible to adhere to the recommended interval, the second does of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines may be scheduled for administration up to 6 weeks (42 days) after the first dose. If the second dose is administered beyond these intervals, there is no need to restart the series.”
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If contact information has changed since a person received their first dose from the health department, please alert the COVID-19 call center at 832-393-4220.
“We understand the anxiety about the second dose and appreciate everyone’s patience as we continue working together to achieve the largest mass vaccination effort ever,” said Stephen L. Williams, director of the health department. “Please be assured that if you were vaccinated by the Houston Health Department, we will reach out to you within the appropriate timeframe to schedule your second dose.”
Even when vaccinated, everyone still needs to take precautions like masking up, practicing social distancing, washing hands and getting tested to help stop the spread of COVID-19 as people get vaccinated and we learn more about the immunity produced by the vaccines.
“Please encourage your family and community to ‘Take Your Best Shot’ as vaccine becomes more widely available,” Williams said.
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Visit the vaccine page of HoustonEmergency.org/covid19 for the latest information about COVID-19 vaccinations through the Houston Health Department.