Birth Cottage Midwives Fax Number — Newborn Records and Screens
Getting a newborn established with a pediatrician means Birth Cottage Midwives faxes the birth record and the state screens — this guide covers sending them. As a midwifery practice in Milford, New Hampshire, Birth Cottage Midwives coordinates midwife-led prenatal, birth, and postpartum care — often including home birth and birth-center birth for low-risk pregnancies for clients under midwifery care across northern New England. Because a newborn's records are protected health information, this guide covers both where to send them and how to keep the transmission compliant.
Birth Cottage Midwives Fax Number
Call Birth Cottage Midwives and ask whether records or the clinical staff should receive your document
Hours: Because a birth center schedules daytime prenatal appointments and attends births whenever labor begins, someone is usually at the front desk during posted hours to take an incoming fax, though records and insurance paperwork moves during regular office hours.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Birth Cottage Midwives
- A signed release of information for a copy of the midwifery record
- Prenatal lab and GBS culture results returned from the lab into the chart
- A dating or anatomy ultrasound report from the imaging center
- Insurance verification and a single-case agreement request for a midwifery-attended birth
- A collaborating-physician consult note when a pregnancy needs an obstetric opinion
Metabolic and hearing screens to the pediatrician from Birth Cottage Midwives
The newborn hand-off from Birth Cottage Midwives closes the loop after a birth: the birth record, the newborn screen, and the follow-up plan reach the pediatrician. A screen result that needs follow-up should be flagged so the pediatrician acts on it promptly. Keep the confirmation so the record shows the screen results were returned.
Establishing care and moving records to Birth Cottage Midwives
When a client establishes care at Birth Cottage Midwives, the prenatal chart from a prior OB or provider is faxed over — that inbound records transfer is the everyday document a birth center receives. Flag anything the prior provider was following — a positive screen, say — so the midwife picks it up. Confirm Birth Cottage Midwives's current records fax before the prior office sends the chart.
Faxing PHI to Birth Cottage Midwives the compliant way
Because these documents hold health information about a mother and baby, the transport to Birth Cottage Midwives has to be compliant. The rules turn on using a secure, compliant service rather than a public or ad-supported one. Send FAX Mail encrypts pages in transit and includes HIPAA from the $39.99/month Professional plan, a safer route for patient records going to Birth Cottage Midwives than a public machine.
Faxing to Birth Cottage Midwives — FAQ
Submit a signed release-of-information authorization to the records staff at Birth Cottage Midwives. The records staff confirm the fax destination for the authorization. Name the records and the dates of care so staff can pull them without a follow-up. Turnaround depends on the request; routine copies are handled in the order received.
Often just one office line, though a busier center may split records and the billing desk onto separate lines. Which staff member should receive it still depends on your document. A quick call to Birth Cottage Midwives settles the number and the desk. When in doubt, ask Birth Cottage Midwives for the fax by the name of the desk.
Ask your previous office to fax the prenatal record, and Birth Cottage Midwives takes it from there. The more complete the transfer, the sooner Birth Cottage Midwives can pick up care. Anything the prior provider was following should be flagged on the transfer. That one step keeps care continuous at Birth Cottage Midwives.
That is a planned part of birth-center care; Birth Cottage Midwives faxes the transfer packet so the receiving team has the full history. Confirm the receiving physician's current fax so the record lands correctly. Anything urgent is flagged so the receiving office prioritizes it. That one step keeps the hand-off clean at Birth Cottage Midwives.
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