Fair Acres Geriatric Center Fax Number — Hospital Transfers and Admissions
A transfer to Fair Acres Geriatric Center goes to the intake team that screens new residents, so the destination line depends on the admission. Located in Lima, Pennsylvania, Fair Acres Geriatric Center is a county-run public nursing home and a public nursing facility serving residents throughout the Mid-Atlantic. Send the discharge summary with the medication list, orders, and PASRR screening so intake can review without waiting on a second fax.
Fair Acres Geriatric Center Fax Number
Call the Fair Acres Geriatric Center main line and ask for the office you need to reach by fax
Hours: County administrative offices are open weekdays; physician orders reach the nursing station overnight and on weekends.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Fair Acres Geriatric Center
- Medication administration records (MAR)
- Release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
- Hospital discharge summaries for a new admission
- Physician orders and telephone-order signatures
- Therapy and treatment orders
Sending a hospital transfer to Fair Acres Geriatric Center
A hospital sending a discharge packet to Fair Acres Geriatric Center reaches the admissions office that screens new residents. Send the discharge summary with the current medication list, orders, and history and physical together. Ask Fair Acres Geriatric Center which office should receive PASRR and eligibility forms, since they can differ from clinical records.
Finding the right office to fax at Fair Acres Geriatric Center
Like most nursing facilities, Fair Acres Geriatric Center splits incoming faxes across separate offices. Clinical orders go to the nursing floor; billing and eligibility go to the Medicaid eligibility office. Pin down the right office before sending so nothing sits in the wrong queue.
The secure way to fax Fair Acres Geriatric Center
Anything with a resident's history headed to Fair Acres Geriatric Center is protected data under HIPAA. 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 Fair Acres Geriatric Center.
Faxing to Fair Acres Geriatric Center — FAQ
Faxing records to Fair Acres Geriatric Center is fine under HIPAA as long as the service is compliant. HIPAA turns on using a compliant, encrypted service rather than a public one. Send FAX Mail encrypts pages in transit and includes HIPAA starting at $39.99/month — safer for PHI headed to Fair Acres Geriatric Center than a public machine. Compliance is about how the pages travel, not only where they land at Fair Acres Geriatric Center.
Get it from the office that will receive the document rather than an old listing. Reach the specific Fair Acres Geriatric Center office by phone and confirm the fax it uses today. Verifying the office and the line up front is the honest shortcut. A confirmed line beats a guessed one on documents this sensitive.
Release of information begins with a signed ROI request to the records office. Fair Acres Geriatric Center will tell you where to fax or upload the completed form. Put the resident identifiers and the requested dates on the authorization. The records move once the office verifies the authorization.
Not one central number. Each office — records, admissions, the nursing station — answers a different fax. Identify the destination before sending so nothing is misrouted. Which line is right depends on the office, not the facility as a whole.
Send eligibility forms to the office that handles Medicaid at Fair Acres Geriatric Center. Confirm the eligibility-office fax with Fair Acres Geriatric Center before sending. Send the signed forms with the resident's name and date of birth on each page. Confirm the current fax with Fair Acres Geriatric Center before you send. That keeps the request moving without a second round trip.
Need to fax Fair Acres Geriatric Center?
Upload your document and send in under a minute. No fax machine needed.
7-day free trial · No credit card required