Hospice of Acadiana Fax Number — Send a Hospice Referral
Starting hospice care with Hospice of Acadiana begins with the admissions office that reviews the discharge packet — here is how to reach it. Hospice of Acadiana is a community-based nonprofit hospice, a nonprofit community hospice in Lafayette, Louisiana, caring for patients and families across the Gulf Coast. Send the discharge summary with the medication list, physician orders, and prognosis documentation so intake can review without waiting on a second fax.
Hospice of Acadiana Fax Number
Confirm the right fax with the Hospice of Acadiana office handling your referral or election paperwork
Hours: The admissions and records offices generally run Monday-Friday during business hours; hospice care is on call around the clock for urgent orders.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Hospice of Acadiana
- Physician orders and verbal-order signatures
- The certification of terminal illness (CTI)
- Face-to-face (F2F) recertification encounter documentation
- A hospice referral from a hospital, SNF, or physician
- Durable medical equipment (DME) orders — a hospital bed, oxygen, or a wheelchair
The hospital-to-hospice referral path at Hospice of Acadiana
A hospice referral to Hospice of Acadiana — from a hospital, a skilled nursing facility, a physician, or a discharge planner — goes to the admissions and referral office. The admissions team reviews the referral — the terminal prognosis, the goals of care, and the payer — before the hospice team visits. Ask Hospice of Acadiana whether the referral should go to a central intake line or the local office.
Election statement and face-to-face recert at Hospice of Acadiana
Admitting a patient to Hospice of Acadiana means the hospice election statement and the physician's certification of terminal illness reach the admissions and referral office. The attending physician the patient designates is recorded so orders and the plan of care are coordinated. Include the patient's name and date of birth so staff match the election to the right chart.
HIPAA and your fax to Hospice of Acadiana
Because these documents hold health information, the transport to Hospice of Acadiana has to be compliant. A consumer fax app is not enough; the channel needs to be encrypted and HIPAA-compliant. Send FAX Mail includes HIPAA and encryption starting at $39.99/month, so PHI headed to Hospice of Acadiana travels over a compliant channel instead of a fax machine in a shared office.
Faxing to Hospice of Acadiana — FAQ
No. Hospice of Acadiana routes faxes to separate office lines, so medical records and the admissions and referral office do not share a number. As a nonprofit community hospice, it splits incoming faxes across medical records, intake, and the hospice care team. Ask for the office you actually need to get the right number. Sending to the wrong line only delays the paperwork for a patient and family who need it.
Put the patient's full name, date of birth, and medical record number on every page. State the specific Hospice of Acadiana office the fax is for on the cover sheet. That routing detail is what lets Hospice of Acadiana reconnect the documents if they separate. Check the details once before you send so nothing bounces back.
Faxes reach Hospice of Acadiana whenever you send, but when they are handled varies by office. Routine records and intake are staffed on weekdays. Time-critical orders are picked up at any hour by the on-call hospice clinician. A brief follow-up call confirms an urgent fax to Hospice of Acadiana was seen.
It is, provided your fax service is HIPAA-compliant. An unsecured machine in a shared space cannot promise the confidentiality the rules expect. Send FAX Mail's Business plan at $79.99/month is HIPAA-compliant and suited to charts sent to Hospice of Acadiana. Handled that way, the records stay within the rules end to end.
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