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Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital Fax Number — Send a Rehab Referral and Pre-Admission Screening

A referral for inpatient rehabilitation at Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital starts with pre-admission screening, faxed from a hospital case manager — this guide covers sending it cleanly. Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital is an acute inpatient rehabilitation facility serving patients transferring from an acute-care hospital and their case managers in the Gulf Coast. Because a referral carries protected health information, this guide covers both where to send it and how to keep the transmission compliant.

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Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital Fax Number

Call Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital and ask whether admissions, the nursing units, or records should receive your document

Hours: An inpatient rehabilitation hospital runs around the clock, so a fax machine can receive a document at any hour, though the admissions, authorization, and health-information staff who act on it work standard business hours.

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What You Can Fax to Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital

  • A functional assessment and the admitting physiatrist's evaluation
  • A discharge summary and continuing-care orders to the next provider
  • A progress update back to the referring physician or specialist
  • The patient's history and physical (H&P) and recent progress notes for the admission decision
  • A home-health or durable-medical-equipment order at discharge
Tip: Every page should carry the patient's name and the referring case manager so nothing is orphaned at Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital. Address the cover sheet to the exact staff you are reaching at Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital, and include a number where they can reach you. Send everything in one PDF rather than several faxes, and keep the confirmation for your records.

Referrals and pre-admission screening to Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital

A referral to Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital starts with pre-admission screening: the acute-care hospital's case manager faxes the patient's history, the recent progress notes, and the reason for the rehab referral so the physiatrist can decide whether the patient is an appropriate admission. Name the patient, the referring hospital and case manager, and the diagnosis on every page so the pre-admission team can match it to the screening. Confirm the pre-admission fax with Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital before you send the screening packet.

The functional assessment and rehab goals at Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital

The physician and therapy plan of care is central at Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital: it names the rehabilitation goals, the therapy disciplines, and the intensity, and it is faxed to the payer to support the inpatient stay. Send the plan of care and the functional assessment together so the record is complete. Put the patient's identifiers and the diagnosis on every page.

Faxing PHI to Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital the compliant way

A referral, a plan of care, and a functional assessment are protected health information, so how you fax them to Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital matters as much as the number. A consumer fax app is not enough; the channel needs to be encrypted and HIPAA-compliant. With Send FAX Mail you send from a phone or computer over a HIPAA-compliant, encrypted connection — Professional is $39.99/month and Business $79.99/month — appropriate for records sent to Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital.

Faxing to Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital — FAQ

Put the patient's full name, date of birth, and the referring hospital or case manager on every page. State the specific staff the fax is for — a referral, an authorization, or records — on the cover sheet. A delivery confirmation then tells you the fax reached Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital. A missing referring case manager is the usual reason a fax sits in a queue at Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital.

Faxes reach Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital whenever you send them because the clinical units are staffed continuously, though authorization and records work follows a business-day schedule. A rehabilitation hospital keeps its units staffed at all times. Time-sensitive referrals reach the pre-admission team while the office is open; routine paperwork waits for office hours. A brief follow-up call confirms an urgent fax to Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital was seen.

It is, provided your fax service is HIPAA-compliant. HIPAA turns on using a compliant, encrypted service rather than a public one. Send FAX Mail encrypts pages in transit and includes HIPAA starting at $39.99/month — safer for PHI headed to Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital than a shared machine. Choose the secure channel first, then confirm the number for Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital.

The right number depends on which staff should receive the document. Reach Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital by phone and confirm the fax it uses today. A quick check beats faxing PHI to a number that has moved. The hospital that receives the fax is the authority on its own number.

From a pre-admission screening to a discharge summary, Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital routes the document to the referring case manager, the payer, or the receiving provider. Get the current fax from Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital directly. Include the patient's identifiers and the referring case manager on every document. Put the patient identifiers on every page so it is matched cleanly. The result is a clean hand-off to the right staff at Baton Rouge Rehabilitation Hospital.

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