Delaware Hospice Fax Number — Send Patient Records Securely
Before you fax records to Delaware Hospice, it helps to know what HIPAA expects of the transport — this page walks through it. Delaware Hospice, a nonprofit community hospice in Milford, Delaware, is a community-based nonprofit hospice and receives clinical documents by fax every day. This guide covers the compliant way to send PHI plus how to reach the correct office at the hospice.
Delaware Hospice Fax Number
Check with Delaware Hospice's admissions desk, which can route you to the correct office line
Hours: Referral and records staff work weekday business hours, while the on-call hospice nurse fields urgent comfort-care orders any time.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Delaware Hospice
- Physician orders and verbal-order signatures
- Bereavement and continuing-care enrollment forms
- A hospice referral from a hospital, SNF, or physician
- Medical records and release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
- Comfort-kit and medication orders coordinated with the pharmacy
HIPAA and your fax to Delaware Hospice
Faxing PHI to Delaware Hospice is allowed, but the service you use has to protect it. The rules turn on using a secure, compliant service rather than a public or ad-supported one. Send FAX Mail's Professional plan ($39.99/month) and Business plan ($79.99/month) both include HIPAA coverage and encryption for documents bound for Delaware Hospice.
Enrolling a family in bereavement support at Delaware Hospice
Bereavement and grief-support enrollment at Delaware Hospice is processed by a team separate from admissions intake. Grief support is part of the hospice benefit, so the enrollment simply connects the family to the team. Confirm the correct fax with Delaware Hospice so a sensitive family form is not misrouted.
The honest way to get Delaware Hospice's fax number
Because Delaware Hospice routes faxes by office, the number you need is the one the receiving team publishes. Many hospices now take referrals through a referral portal or a shared EHR, so confirm the office still accepts fax. A quick verification beats faxing sensitive pages to a number that has moved.
Faxing to Delaware Hospice — FAQ
The current line comes from Delaware Hospice directly, since office numbers change. The discharging hospital's case manager often already has the correct Delaware Hospice fax on file. Confirming the line first is a two-minute step that prevents a misrouted record. A confirmed line beats a guessed one on documents this sensitive.
Send a signed release form to the records staff who manage the patient's file. The office names the current fax once your request is on file. List the patient identifiers, the dates, and the exact records you want so nothing is missed. The records move once the office verifies the authorization.
Not one central number. The line for medical records is separate from the one for admission intake. Confirm the correct line for the office you are reaching before you send. Which line is right depends on the office, not the organization as a whole.
Put the patient's full name, date of birth, and medical record number on every page. Note the target office — medical records, admission intake, or the hospice care team — on the cover sheet. Attach the signed ROI authorization when the fax is a records request. The identifiers matter as much as the records themselves.
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