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Close to Home Birth Center Fax Number — Consults and Transfers of Care

Faxing a consult or a transfer of care to or from Close to Home Birth Center? A birth center collaborates with an obstetrician and transfers care when a pregnancy risks out — this page shows how that works. As a freestanding birth center in Bangor, Maine, Close to Home Birth Center coordinates midwife-led prenatal care, labor, and birth for low-risk pregnancies, with newborn care and postpartum follow-up for families planning an out-of-hospital birth across northern New England. Because a transfer packet carries protected health information, this guide covers both where to send it and how to keep the transmission compliant.

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Close to Home Birth Center Fax Number

Use Close to Home Birth Center's client or referring-provider instructions to find where to send documents

Hours: A birth center runs prenatal clinics on weekdays and keeps a midwife on call for labor, so the machine receives faxes across business hours; the records and billing staff who answer authorizations still keep standard weekday hours.

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What You Can Fax to Close to Home Birth Center

  • A signed release of information for a copy of the prenatal or birth record
  • Insurance verification and prior-authorization paperwork for a birth-center delivery
  • Prior birth records and operative reports reviewed for a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) candidate
  • Prenatal records transferred in when a client establishes care from a prior OB or provider
  • The newborn record and state newborn metabolic screen results sent to the baby's pediatrician
Tip: Put the client's name and date of birth on each page so Close to Home Birth Center can match it cleanly. Direct the cover sheet to records, the front desk, or a provider at Close to Home Birth Center, with a callback number for questions. Group the pages into a single fax and hold onto the confirmation in case you need to prove it arrived.

When care moves from Close to Home Birth Center to a physician or hospital

Collaboration is a defining birth-center workflow: Close to Home Birth Center faxes a consult request to an obstetrician, and a risk-out or an intrapartum transfer sends the record to the receiving hospital. Name the client and the collaborating physician on the cover sheet so the consult is matched to the record. Send the record and the transfer note as one PDF so nothing arrives split.

Getting a prenatal record to Close to Home Birth Center

Most clients reach Close to Home Birth Center 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. Flag anything the prior provider was following — a positive screen, say — so the midwife picks it up. A quick call helps Close to Home Birth Center watch for a transferring client's record.

Sending patient records to Close to Home Birth Center without cutting corners

Faxing PHI to Close to Home Birth Center is allowed, but the service you use has to protect it. HIPAA permits faxing PHI over a compliant, encrypted service — not a shared machine at the library or a free app. 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 Close to Home Birth Center than a public machine.

Faxing to Close to Home Birth Center — FAQ

Submit a signed release-of-information authorization to the records staff at Close to Home Birth Center. Close to Home Birth Center verifies your identity before releasing the record. Put the client identifiers and the requested dates of care on the authorization. Once processed, Close to Home Birth Center releases the records to you or the party you named.

Typically a single front-desk fax, occasionally a separate records or billing line. A prenatal transfer and a records request can land with different staff at Close to Home Birth Center. Check with Close to Home Birth Center so the fax reaches the right person. Keep the confirmed number with the client's file so you are not searching next time.

A birth center like Close to Home Birth Center routinely receives a faxed prenatal record when a client establishes care partway through pregnancy. Name the client and the due date so the record is matched on arrival. Nothing about the pregnancy is lost between offices when the record is complete. A quick call confirms Close to Home Birth Center received the record if a visit is coming up.

Close to Home Birth Center works with a collaborating physician and faxes the consult or transfer note when a pregnancy needs it. Give Close to Home Birth Center the correct fax for the collaborating physician or hospital so the packet reaches the right service. A clean hand-off keeps care safe when it moves to a higher level. A quick call confirms the receiving office got the transfer if it is time-sensitive.

From a prenatal transfer in to a hospital transfer out to the newborn hand-off, Close to Home Birth Center moves the record by fax to the office that needs it. Ask Close to Home Birth Center to note the destination on the cover sheet. A follow-up call confirms an urgent transfer was received. A brief call ahead helps staff watch for a time-sensitive fax. Doing it that way avoids the most common cause of a delay.

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