Avera Hospice Fax Number — Send Patient Records Securely
A chart headed to Avera Hospice is protected health information, so the service you fax it with matters as much as the number. Avera Hospice, a faith-based hospice in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is part of Avera Health and receives clinical documents by fax every day. This guide covers the compliant way to send PHI plus how to reach the correct office at the hospice.
Avera Hospice Fax Number
Ask Avera Hospice's admissions or medical records office for the current fax number
Hours: Administrative offices are open weekdays; urgent symptom-management orders reach the on-call team evenings and weekends.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Avera Hospice
- Durable medical equipment (DME) orders — a hospital bed, oxygen, or a wheelchair
- Interdisciplinary group (IDG) plan-of-care updates, including chaplaincy and spiritual-care notes
- DNR, POLST, and advance-directive documents
- The certification of terminal illness (CTI)
- Medical records and release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
Keeping records to Avera Hospice HIPAA-compliant
Anything with a patient's history headed to Avera Hospice is protected data under HIPAA. Encryption in transit and a compliant provider are what keep the transmission within the rules. On Send FAX Mail, HIPAA coverage is included from the $39.99/month Professional tier up, and every page to Avera Hospice is encrypted in transit with a delivery confirmation.
Enrolling a family in bereavement support at Avera Hospice
Bereavement and grief-support enrollment at Avera Hospice is processed by a team separate from admissions intake. Grief support is part of the hospice benefit, so the enrollment simply connects the family to the team. Confirm the correct fax with Avera Hospice so a sensitive family form is not misrouted.
Getting the working fax line for Avera Hospice
Because Avera Hospice routes faxes by office, the number you need is the one the receiving team publishes. Check Avera Hospice's referral or medical-records page, then verify the line by phone. A quick verification beats faxing sensitive pages to a number that has moved.
Faxing to Avera Hospice — FAQ
It is, provided your fax service is HIPAA-compliant. A consumer app is not enough; the channel has to be encrypted and compliant, which rules out shared office machines. Send FAX Mail includes HIPAA and encryption from $39.99/month for faxes to Avera Hospice. A secure send protects both you and the patient whose chart it is.
The right number depends on which office should receive the document. Check Avera Hospice's referral or medical-records page, then verify the line by phone. Verifying the office and the line up front is the honest shortcut. That confirmation is the difference between a delivered record and a lost one.
Release of information begins with a signed ROI request to the records office. Ask Avera Hospice where the signed release should go. Put the patient identifiers and the requested dates on the authorization. Turnaround depends on the request; routine copies are handled in the order received.
No, and that trips up a lot of senders. The line for medical records is separate from the one for admission intake. Identify the destination before sending so nothing is misrouted. When in doubt, ask Avera Hospice for the office by name.
Send the election statement and CTI to the hospice admissions team. Get the working admissions fax from Avera Hospice directly. Include the attending physician's information and the signed certification of terminal illness. Keep the transmission confirmation in case you need to show it went through. The result is a clean hand-off to the right team at Avera Hospice for the patient and family.
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