Gilchrist Fax Number — Send Patient Records Securely
Faxing patient records to Gilchrist is allowed under HIPAA — but only over a secure, compliant channel, which is where most people slip. As a hospice and palliative care provider, Gilchrist in Hunt Valley, Maryland receives faxed orders, records, and referral packets for patients across the Baltimore-Washington corridor. This guide covers the compliant way to send PHI plus how to reach the correct office at the agency.
Gilchrist Fax Number
Use Gilchrist's referral or records-request instructions to find where to send documents
Hours: Administrative offices are open weekdays; urgent comfort-care orders reach the on-call team evenings and weekends.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Gilchrist
- Interdisciplinary group (IDG) plan-of-care updates
- Updated medication and comfort-care orders
- Medical records and release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
- A hospital or SNF discharge summary for a referral
- Attending-physician and referral paperwork
Sending patient charts to Gilchrist without cutting corners
Anything with a patient's history headed to Gilchrist is protected data under HIPAA. The rules turn on using a secure, compliant service rather than a public or ad-supported one. With Send FAX Mail you send from your phone or computer over a HIPAA-compliant, encrypted connection — Professional is $39.99/month and Business $79.99/month — appropriate for charts sent to Gilchrist.
What to put on a fax to Gilchrist
Good labeling is the difference between a same-day match and a stalled record at Gilchrist. Name the receiving office — medical records or the clinical team — at the top of the cover sheet. Keeping the pages in one job avoids a half-received record at Gilchrist.
Confirming the right fax at Gilchrist
A fax number copied from a search result may be stale; Gilchrist has the current one. Check Gilchrist's referral or medical-records page, then verify the line by phone. That one confirmation call is what keeps the documents out of the wrong queue.
Faxing to Gilchrist — FAQ
Get it from the office that will receive the document rather than an old listing. Many agencies take referrals through a portal or a shared EHR now, so confirm Gilchrist still accepts fax. Keep the working number with the patient's file for next time. 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. Gilchrist routes the request to the records staff who pull the chart. Name the records and dates so the office can pull them without a follow-up. After review, the records go to you or whoever you designated.
No. Gilchrist routes faxes to separate office lines, so medical records and the admissions and referral office do not share a number. Records, referral intake, and clinical orders each keep their own line. Match the office to your document, then send to that specific line. A quick call to Gilchrist settles which line your document should use.
At minimum, the patient's name, date of birth, and medical record number belong on each page. Add a cover sheet addressed to the admissions and referral office at Gilchrist with your callback number. Send it as one combined PDF so the pages stay in order. A missing identifier is the usual reason a fax sits in a queue at Gilchrist.
Send the election statement and CTI to the hospice admissions team. Get the working admissions fax from Gilchrist directly. Send the election statement, the CTI, and the current medication and comfort-care orders. 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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