CNS Cares Hospice Fax Number — Send Patient Records Securely
A chart headed to CNS Cares Hospice is protected health information, so the service you fax it with matters as much as the number. Based in Boise, Idaho, CNS Cares Hospice is a community-based nonprofit hospice and a community hospice and palliative care organization serving patients and families throughout the Intermountain West. This guide covers the compliant way to send PHI plus how to reach the correct office at the hospice.
CNS Cares Hospice Fax Number
Call CNS Cares Hospice and ask for the hospice referral team or the office you need to reach by fax
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 CNS Cares Hospice
- The signed hospice election statement
- A hospice referral from a hospital, SNF, or physician
- Medical records and release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
- The certification of terminal illness (CTI)
- Physician orders and verbal-order signatures
Sending patient charts to CNS Cares Hospice without cutting corners
Because these documents hold health information, the transport to CNS Cares Hospice has to be compliant. The rules turn on using a secure, compliant service rather than a public or ad-supported one. Send FAX Mail includes HIPAA and encryption starting at $39.99/month, so PHI headed to CNS Cares Hospice travels over a compliant channel instead of a fax machine in a shared office.
How family support paperwork reaches CNS Cares Hospice
Enrolling a family in bereavement support with CNS Cares Hospice means the enrollment form reaches the team that coordinates it, not the clinical line. The form records who in the family is enrolling and how they prefer to be contacted for support. Send the form on its own so it is not lost inside a clinical packet.
Tracking down the correct CNS Cares Hospice fax
A fax number copied from a search result may be stale; CNS Cares Hospice has the current one. Ask the discharging hospital's case manager or discharge planner, who often already has the correct CNS Cares Hospice fax on file. A quick verification beats faxing sensitive pages to a number that has moved.
Faxing to CNS Cares Hospice — FAQ
Get it from the office that will receive the document rather than an old listing. Check CNS Cares Hospice's referral or medical-records page, then verify the line by phone. Verifying the office and the line up front is the honest shortcut. The office that receives the fax is the authority on its own number.
Release of information begins with a signed ROI request to the records office. Ask CNS Cares Hospice where the signed release should go. Put the patient identifiers and the requested dates on the authorization. After review, the records go to you or whoever the family designated.
Not one central number. The line for medical records is separate from the one for admission intake. Identify the destination before sending so nothing is misrouted. A quick call to CNS Cares Hospice settles which line your document should use.
At minimum, the patient's name, date of birth, and medical record number belong on each page. Note the target office — medical records, admission intake, or the hospice care team — on the cover sheet. With identifiers and destination clear, nothing gets misrouted. A missing identifier is the usual reason a fax sits in a queue at CNS Cares Hospice.
Hospice referrals route to the admissions office, apart from a records request. Get the working admissions fax from CNS Cares Hospice directly. Send the election statement, the CTI, and the current comfort-care orders. Keep the transmission confirmation in case you need to show it went through. That keeps the referral moving without a second round trip.
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