Hospice of the Fisher Home Fax Number — Send Patient Records Securely
Faxing patient records to Hospice of the Fisher Home is allowed under HIPAA — but only over a secure, compliant channel, which is where most people slip. Hospice of the Fisher Home, a nonprofit community hospice in Amherst, Massachusetts, is a community-based nonprofit hospice and receives clinical documents by fax every day. This guide covers the compliant way to send PHI plus how to reach the correct office at the hospice.
Hospice of the Fisher Home Fax Number
Check with Hospice of the Fisher Home's admissions desk, which can route you to the correct office line
Hours: Administrative offices are open weekdays; urgent symptom-management orders reach the on-call team evenings and weekends.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Hospice of the Fisher Home
- Interdisciplinary group (IDG) plan-of-care updates
- A hospice referral from a hospital, SNF, or physician
- Comfort-kit and medication orders coordinated with the pharmacy
- Bereavement and continuing-care enrollment forms
- Durable medical equipment (DME) orders — a hospital bed, oxygen, or a wheelchair
Protected health information and Hospice of the Fisher Home
Faxing PHI to Hospice of the Fisher Home is allowed, but the service you use has to protect it. Encryption in transit and a compliant provider are what keep the transmission within the rules. Send FAX Mail encrypts pages in transit and includes HIPAA from the Professional plan at $39.99/month, with the Business plan at $79.99/month for higher volume — a safer route for records going to Hospice of the Fisher Home than a public machine.
Enrolling a family in bereavement support at Hospice of the Fisher Home
Bereavement and grief-support enrollment at Hospice of the Fisher Home is processed by a team separate from admissions intake. Grief support is part of the hospice benefit, so the enrollment simply connects the family to the team. Confirm the correct fax with Hospice of the Fisher Home so a sensitive family form is not misrouted.
Getting the working fax line for Hospice of the Fisher Home
A fax number copied from a search result may be stale; Hospice of the Fisher Home has the current one. Call Hospice of the Fisher Home and ask for the admissions and referral office or the office you are trying to reach. Once you have the working number from Hospice of the Fisher Home, keep it with the patient's file for next time.
Faxing to Hospice of the Fisher Home — FAQ
Get it from the office that will receive the document rather than an old listing. Check Hospice of the Fisher Home's referral or medical-records page, then verify the line by phone. That one verification keeps sensitive pages out of the wrong queue. Skip the stale listing and confirm the line at the source.
Release of information begins with a signed ROI request to the records office. Ask Hospice of the Fisher Home where the signed release should go. Include the patient's name, date of birth, and the record types and date range. Once processed, Hospice of the Fisher Home releases the records to you or the party you named.
No. Documents go to different fax lines at Hospice of the Fisher Home depending on the office. 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. Keep the confirmed number with the patient's file so you are not searching next time.
At minimum, the patient's name, date of birth, and medical record number belong on each page. Direct the cover sheet to the correct Hospice of the Fisher Home office and include a number staff can call. That routing detail is what lets Hospice of the Fisher Home reconnect the documents if they separate. Complete, legible identifiers are what move the request fastest.
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