Birthwise Midwifery Fax Number — Newborn Records and Screens
Getting a newborn established with a pediatrician means Birthwise Midwifery faxes the birth record and the state screens — this guide covers sending them. As a midwifery practice in Baltimore, Maryland, Birthwise Midwifery 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 the Chesapeake region. Because a newborn's records are protected health information, this guide covers both where to send them and how to keep the transmission compliant.
Birthwise Midwifery Fax Number
Use Birthwise Midwifery's client or referring-provider instructions to find where documents go
Hours: A birth center holds prenatal visits during weekday clinic hours while a midwife is on call around the clock for labor, so the front desk receives a fax during business hours and the records staff who process release requests work a narrower window.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Birthwise Midwifery
- Prior op reports and birth records reviewed for a VBAC client considering a trial of labor
- Prenatal lab and GBS culture results returned from the lab into the chart
- A signed release of information for a copy of the midwifery record
- A collaborating-physician consult note when a pregnancy needs an obstetric opinion
- Insurance verification and a single-case agreement request for a midwifery-attended birth
Metabolic and hearing screens to the pediatrician from Birthwise Midwifery
After a birth at Birthwise Midwifery, the newborn record and the state newborn metabolic screen result are faxed to the baby's pediatrician — that newborn hand-off is a steady birth-center workflow. Send the birth record and the screening results together so the pediatrician is not waiting on a second fax. Keep the confirmation so the record shows the screen results were returned.
Getting a prenatal record to Birthwise Midwifery
Most clients reach Birthwise Midwifery already partway through pregnancy, so the prior provider faxes the prenatal record, the dating information, and the lab history to start care without a gap. Send the full prenatal chart, the dating information, and the labs to date together so care continues without a gap. A quick call helps Birthwise Midwifery watch for a transferring client's record.
Sending patient records to Birthwise Midwifery without cutting corners
A fax to Birthwise Midwifery that carries a prenatal record, a lab result, or a birth record is PHI and belongs on a secure channel. A consumer fax app is not enough; the channel needs to be encrypted and HIPAA-compliant. On Send FAX Mail, HIPAA coverage is included from the $39.99/month Professional tier up, and every page to Birthwise Midwifery is encrypted in transit with a delivery confirmation.
Faxing to Birthwise Midwifery — FAQ
Ask Birthwise Midwifery's front desk for its working fax before you send. Reach Birthwise Midwifery by phone and confirm the fax it uses today. Verifying the office and the line up front is the honest shortcut. A confirmed line beats a guessed one on documents this sensitive.
Submit a signed release-of-information authorization to the records staff at Birthwise Midwifery. Birthwise Midwifery will tell you where to fax or upload the completed form. Put the client identifiers and the requested dates of care on the authorization. The records move once staff verify the authorization and your identity.
Typically a single front-desk fax, occasionally a separate records or billing line. Which staff member should receive it still depends on your document. Check with Birthwise Midwifery so the fax reaches the right person. Which line is right depends on the request, not the office as a whole.
A birth center like Birthwise Midwifery routinely receives a faxed prenatal record when a client establishes care partway through pregnancy. Providing the exact fax speeds the record to the right desk at Birthwise Midwifery. Nothing about the pregnancy is lost between offices when the record is complete. Send the chart and its attachments as one PDF so nothing is separated.
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