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Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield Fax Number — Plan of Care and Functional Assessment

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield faxes the physician plan of care and functional assessment — the therapy disciplines, the intensity, and the goals — to support the inpatient stay; here is how, securely. Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield is a neurorehabilitation hospital in Bakersfield, California, providing intensive inpatient rehabilitation after a stroke, brain injury, or spinal-cord injury in California. Because a plan of care is protected health information, this guide covers both where to send it and how to keep the transmission compliant.

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Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield Fax Number

Ask Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield's admissions or pre-admission liaison for the current fax number

Hours: A fax to a rehab hospital lands whenever you send it because the units are staffed overnight, but an authorization packet or a records release sent after hours is picked up the next business day.

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What You Can Fax to Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield

  • A home-health, outpatient-therapy, or durable-medical-equipment order at discharge
  • A progress update back to the referring neurologist or trauma team
  • The operative or acute discharge summary from the transferring hospital
  • A prior-authorization request with the plan of care documenting the intensive-therapy requirement
  • The physician and therapy plan of care with the cognitive and mobility goals
Tip: Label each page with the patient's full name, date of birth, and the referring hospital or case manager — those are what staff use to match an admission at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield. Name the receiving staff — the health-information staff, the admissions desk, or the pre-admission liaison — on the cover sheet, and add your callback number. Combine the documents into one job so they stay in order, and save the transmission receipt.

The plan of care and functional assessment at Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield

A functional assessment and the plan of care from Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield document where the patient starts and the intensive-therapy goals, and they are faxed to the payer and shared with the referring team. Confirm whether the plan goes to the payer's authorization team or the referring case manager before sending. Keep the confirmation so the chart shows the plan of care was transmitted.

How a rehab referral reaches Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield

The first document into Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield is usually a pre-admission screening packet from a hospital case manager, faxed with the acute record so the rehabilitation physician can assess whether the patient can tolerate intensive therapy. Name the patient, the referring hospital and case manager, and the diagnosis on every page so the pre-admission team can match it to the screening. Flag an anticipated discharge date so the screening is worked in time.

HIPAA and your fax to Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield

A referral, a plan of care, and a functional assessment are protected health information, so how you fax them to Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield matters as much as the number. The rules turn on using a secure, compliant service rather than a public or ad-supported one. With Send FAX Mail you send from a phone or computer over a HIPAA-compliant, encrypted connection — Professional is $39.99/month and Business $79.99/month — appropriate for records sent to Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield.

Faxing to Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield — FAQ

As a rehabilitation hospital, Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield usually keeps a working admissions or pre-admission line and a separate health-information line, with authorization sometimes on its own. Even so, a referral, an authorization packet, and a records request go to different staff on those lines. Ask Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield which line fits your document to be sure. Sending to the wrong desk only delays the document.

Referral is the usual way in, so Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield receives the history and notes by fax to open the screening. Providing a complete screening packet speeds the admission decision. Pre-admission needs the H&P and the acute course, and the faxed packet provides them. Put the patient's identifiers and the referring case manager on every page.

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield faxes the physician and therapy plan of care — the disciplines, the intensity, and the functional goals — to support the inpatient stay. Give Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield the payer's authorization fax so the plan is not sent to a stale line. The plan of care and the assessment belong together so the payer is not chasing documents. Put the patient's identifiers and the diagnosis on every page.

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield faxes the discharge summary and the continuing-care orders to the provider you name. Name the patient and the receiving provider so the summary is matched on arrival. The summary keeps the receiving provider and the hospital aligned on the plan. Put the patient's identifiers on every page.

Because Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield treats neurologic patients, the screening packet and the plan of care with cognitive goals are faxed to support the intensive stay. Get the current fax from Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Bakersfield directly. Keep the confirmation for the chart. Send the whole packet as one job so nothing arrives split. It is a small step that saves a follow-up call later.

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