A Squarespace Template for Medical + Dental Websites
If you’re building a website for a doctor’s office, private practice, or dental clinic, you know how crucial it is to have a site that looks clean, functions smoothly, and keeps patient privacy front and center. After 15 years of designing websites for medical professionals, I’ve poured everything I’ve learned into a new Squarespace template called Practitioner.
It’s purpose-built for healthcare providers and comes packed with smart design features that keep your site professional, accessible, and patient-friendly—while staying mindful of HIPAA compliance concerns.
Rather watch than read? This blog post is also a video:
Let me walk you through what’s inside.
Pages & Content
Homepage: Clarity First
The homepage offers a high-level overview of your practice:
Quick service highlights
Patient testimonials
Clear, clickable contact info
Instead of a contact form (which can create HIPAA issues), Practitioner features New Patient and Patient Portal buttons front and center. This encourages patients to use secure channels for communication, protecting both their privacy and your liability.
About Page + Team Grid
Introduce your practice and team with a clean “About” page featuring a visual staff directory. Visitors can quickly connect names to faces and read more about their provider with individual profile links.
HIPAA & Privacy Policy Pages
Every medical site should have these. Practitioner includes:
A HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices written in plain language
Website privacy policy, disclaimer, and terms of use pages
These pages build trust and can be configured to meet your legal requirements.
Visit Us Page
All the essentials for new and returning patients:
Click-to-call phone numbers
Google map embed
Directions link
Office hours
It’s everything patients need to get to you, with no friction.
Leave a Review Page
Encourage satisfied patients to share their experience. This review page can link to whatever review platforms are important to you - often Google, Facebook, Healthgrades, and Vitals. And if someone isn’t happy? There’s a gentle prompt inviting them to reach out directly.
Resources Page
If you’re always recommending the same articles or tools to patients, this page is your friend.
It uses a summary block to pull in resource blog posts. Each one is a link to an external site—opening in a new tab—so patients can easily access recommended third-party info.
Design Features
HIPAA-Conscious Design
Many platforms, including Squarespace, are not HIPAA compliant. That’s why this template avoids data collection methods like forms that could end up with Squarespace holding patient data. Instead, it prioritizes clear phone call options and outbound links to your secure patient portal.
No contact forms. No liability headaches.
Custom Blog Layout
This isn’t your typical Squarespace blog. Practitioner features a custom layout with a large featured image on the left and your post content on the right. It’s clean, readable, and stands out.
Blog pages are used on this template for:
Practice news & announcements
Patient resources & education
Staff profiles
Policies Page with Sidebar Navigation
Say goodbye to messy PDFs. This long-scroll policies page includes a dynamic sidebar for easy access to:
• Cancellation policies
• Insurance information
• Payment procedures
• Office hours
Make life easier for your staff and patients by sending them to one place.
Accessible, Readable Design
Practitioner uses a clean, professional color palette with subtle gradients—eschewing the tired royal blue found on many medical sites. The typeface is Lexend, designed specifically for maximum readability, especially for people with reading challenges.
You can also take accessibility even further by integrating the UserWay Accessibility Widget, a free tool that lets users:
• Increase text size
• Adjust contrast
• Use a screen reader
• And more
Bonus Touch: Dot Cursor
A subtle custom dot cursor adds polish without distraction. It gently changes color when hovering over links—enhancing user experience without being gimmicky.
Ready to Build?
If you’re building a medical or dental website, Practitioner is our medical and dental website template and it’s ready for you. You’ll get a beautifully designed, easy-to-edit site that helps patients find you, trust you, and take action.
Reach out if you’d like to work with us to build something bespoke!
