Notre Dame Hospice Fax Number — Send Patient Records Securely
A chart headed to Notre Dame Hospice is protected health information, so the service you fax it with matters as much as the number. Notre Dame Hospice, a faith-based hospice in Lafayette, Louisiana, is a faith-based hospice ministry 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.
Notre Dame Hospice Fax Number
Confirm the right fax with the Notre Dame Hospice 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 Notre Dame Hospice
- Interdisciplinary group (IDG) plan-of-care updates, including chaplaincy and spiritual-care notes
- Face-to-face (F2F) recertification encounter documentation
- Physician orders and verbal-order signatures
- A hospice referral from a hospital, SNF, or physician
- DNR, POLST, and advance-directive documents
Protected health information and Notre Dame Hospice
Faxing PHI to Notre Dame Hospice is allowed, but the service you use has to protect it. HIPAA permits faxing PHI over a compliant, encrypted service — not a shared office machine or a free app. Send FAX Mail includes HIPAA and encryption starting at $39.99/month, so PHI headed to Notre Dame Hospice travels over a compliant channel instead of a fax machine in a shared office.
Grief-support enrollment at Notre Dame Hospice
Bereavement and grief-support enrollment at Notre Dame Hospice 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 Notre Dame Hospice so a sensitive family form is not misrouted.
The honest way to get Notre Dame Hospice's fax number
Because Notre Dame Hospice routes faxes by office, the number you need is the one the receiving team publishes. Many hospices now take referrals through a referral portal or a shared EHR, so confirm the office still accepts fax. Once you have the working number from Notre Dame Hospice, keep it with the patient's file for next time.
Faxing to Notre Dame Hospice — FAQ
Ask the specific Notre Dame Hospice office for its working fax before you send. Check Notre Dame Hospice's referral or medical-records page, then verify the line by phone. Confirming the line first is a two-minute step that prevents a misrouted record. Skip the stale listing and confirm the line at the source.
Submit a signed release-of-information authorization to medical records at Notre Dame Hospice. Ask Notre Dame Hospice where the signed release should go. List the patient identifiers, the dates, and the exact records you want so nothing is missed. Once processed, Notre Dame Hospice releases the records to you or the party you named.
No. Notre Dame Hospice routes faxes to separate office lines, so medical records and the admissions and referral office do not share a number. The line for medical records is separate from the one for admission intake. Confirm the correct line for the office you are reaching before you send. Keep the confirmed number with the patient's file so you are not searching next time.
Every page should carry the patient's full name, date of birth, and record number. Direct the cover sheet to the correct Notre Dame Hospice office and include a number staff can call. Attach the signed ROI authorization when the fax is a records request. Complete, legible identifiers are what move the request fastest.
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