CHI St. Alexius Hospice Fax Number — Send Physician and Comfort-Care Orders
Need to fax physician orders, a comfort-kit order, or a DME request to CHI St. Alexius Hospice? Those go to the hospice care team that manages the patient's comfort, not a general fax line. CHI St. Alexius Hospice, a faith-based hospice in Bismarck, North Dakota, is part of CommonSpirit Health and receives clinical documents by fax every day. Because these documents carry patient health information, this guide covers both where to send them and how to keep the transmission compliant.
CHI St. Alexius Hospice Fax Number
Ask CHI St. Alexius Hospice's admissions or medical records office for the current fax number
Hours: Admissions and records keep weekday hours; the hospice on-call line receives time-sensitive orders after hours.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to CHI St. Alexius Hospice
- Comfort-kit and medication orders coordinated with the pharmacy
- The certification of terminal illness (CTI)
- Durable medical equipment (DME) orders — a hospital bed, oxygen, or a wheelchair
- Physician orders and verbal-order signatures
- The signed hospice election statement
Physician orders and pharmacy coordination at CHI St. Alexius Hospice
Faxing comfort-kit and symptom-management orders to CHI St. Alexius Hospice means reaching the clinical office that coordinates them with the pharmacy. The hospice care team matches the order to the patient's plan of care before it is carried out. Address the cover sheet to the hospice care team so the order reaches the nurse.
DME and the hospice care team at CHI St. Alexius Hospice
A DME order for CHI St. Alexius Hospice routes to the hospice care team, which arranges delivery with the equipment vendor. The hospice covers equipment related to the terminal diagnosis as part of the plan of care, so the order names the item and the clinical need. Address the cover sheet to the hospice care team so the equipment order is not treated as routine paperwork.
HIPAA and your fax to CHI St. Alexius Hospice
Anything with a patient's history headed to CHI St. Alexius Hospice is protected data under HIPAA. A walk-in machine in a shared space cannot promise the confidentiality the rules expect. Send FAX Mail includes HIPAA and encryption starting at $39.99/month, so PHI headed to CHI St. Alexius Hospice travels over a compliant channel instead of a fax machine in a shared office.
Faxing to CHI St. Alexius Hospice — FAQ
At minimum, the patient's name, date of birth, and medical record number belong on each page. Direct the cover sheet to the correct CHI St. Alexius Hospice office and include a number staff can call. A delivery confirmation then tells you the fax reached CHI St. Alexius Hospice. Check the details once before you send so nothing bounces back.
You can send to CHI St. Alexius Hospice any time, though routine paperwork is worked during business hours. The offices that handle referrals and records keep standard weekday hours. Send routine requests early in the day for same-day handling; urgent symptom-management orders are actioned immediately. A brief follow-up call confirms an urgent fax to CHI St. Alexius Hospice was seen.
Yes, when the transport is compliant. A consumer app is not enough; the channel has to be encrypted and compliant, which rules out shared office machines. Send FAX Mail encrypts pages in transit and includes HIPAA starting at $39.99/month — safer for PHI headed to CHI St. Alexius Hospice than a public machine. Handled that way, the records stay within the rules end to end.
A number copied from a search result may be stale; CHI St. Alexius Hospice has the current one. Check CHI St. Alexius Hospice's referral or medical-records page, then verify the line by phone. A quick check beats faxing PHI to a number that has moved. Note the number the first time so the next fax to CHI St. Alexius Hospice is quicker.
Hospice referrals route to the admissions office, apart from a records request. Confirm the admissions fax with CHI St. Alexius Hospice before sending the referral. Send the election statement, the CTI, and the current comfort-care orders. Put the patient identifiers on every page so it is matched cleanly. Doing it that way avoids the most common cause of a delay.
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