Maintaining Your Profile After Relocation

By MedXL Editorial Team · Updated 2026-08-26 · 6 min read

Moving your practice to a new city, state, or province is disruptive enough without discovering months later that patients are still calling your old clinic and directories still list a license you no longer hold. Your public profile is often the last thing updated during a relocation and the first thing patients and recruiters see. This guide walks through what to update, in what order, and how the process differs between the United States and Canada.

An out-of-date profile is not just untidy. It creates concrete problems:

Patients book at the wrong location or call disconnected numbers, which produces frustrated reviews you then have to live with.

In this guide

Why stale profiles cause real harm
Update the primary sources first
In the United States
In Canada
Then update your public directory profiles
Handle the transition period deliberately
Relocation and your license footprint
A one-week relocation profile checklist
Frequently asked questions
Key takeaways