Henry Ford Hospice Fax Number — Send a Hospice Referral
Sending a hospice referral to Henry Ford Hospice for a hospital or SNF discharge? Those route to the admissions and referral office, which keeps its own fax line. As part of Henry Ford Health, Henry Ford Hospice in Detroit, Michigan receives faxed orders, records, and referral packets for hospice patients across the Great Lakes region. Send the discharge summary with the medication list, physician orders, and prognosis documentation so intake can review without waiting on a second fax.
Henry Ford Hospice Fax Number
Call Henry Ford Hospice and ask for the hospice referral team or the office you need to reach by fax
Hours: Routine records processing runs Monday to Friday; urgent hospice orders reach the on-call clinician around the clock.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Henry Ford Hospice
- Face-to-face (F2F) recertification encounter documentation
- The certification of terminal illness (CTI)
- Interdisciplinary group (IDG) plan-of-care updates
- Durable medical equipment (DME) orders — a hospital bed, oxygen, or a wheelchair
- Medical records and release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
Getting a patient onto hospice service at Henry Ford Hospice
A discharge planner sending a patient to Henry Ford Hospice reaches the admissions office that opens the hospice case. Include the face-to-face (F2F) encounter note and the attending physician's contact information. A brief call to Henry Ford Hospice ahead of a same-day discharge helps staff watch for the fax so the family is not left waiting.
Faxing the hospice election and CTI to Henry Ford Hospice
Admitting a patient to Henry Ford Hospice means the hospice election statement and the physician's certification of terminal illness reach the admissions and referral office. Both the hospice medical director and, initially, the attending physician sign the certification for the first benefit period. Confirm the current admissions fax with Henry Ford Hospice before sending time-sensitive election paperwork.
Sending patient charts to Henry Ford Hospice without cutting corners
Anything with a patient's history headed to Henry Ford Hospice is protected data under HIPAA. A consumer fax app is not enough; the channel needs to be encrypted and HIPAA-compliant. On Send FAX Mail, HIPAA coverage is included from the $39.99/month Professional tier up, and every page to Henry Ford Hospice is encrypted in transit with a delivery confirmation.
Faxing to Henry Ford Hospice — FAQ
Start with a signed ROI form to Henry Ford Hospice's records office. Henry Ford Hospice will tell you where to fax or upload the completed form. 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.
No, and that trips up a lot of senders. Each office — records, admissions, the hospice care team — answers a different fax. Ask for the office you actually need to get the right number. Which line is right depends on the office, not the organization as a whole.
At minimum, the patient's name, date of birth, and medical record number belong on each page. State the specific Henry Ford Hospice office the fax is for on the cover sheet. That routing detail is what lets Henry Ford Hospice reconnect the documents if they separate. The identifiers matter as much as the records themselves.
Henry Ford Hospice receives faxes at any hour, but the offices that process them keep set schedules. Routine records and intake are staffed on weekdays. Time-critical orders are picked up at any hour by the on-call hospice clinician. Routine copies follow the office's normal queue rather than jumping ahead.
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