Presbyterian Hospice Fax Number — Send a Hospice Referral
Starting hospice care with Presbyterian Hospice begins with the admissions office that reviews the discharge packet — here is how to reach it. As part of Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Presbyterian Hospice in Albuquerque, New Mexico receives faxed orders, records, and referral packets for hospice patients across the Southwest. Send the discharge summary with the medication list, physician orders, and prognosis documentation so intake can review without waiting on a second fax.
Presbyterian Hospice Fax Number
Reach the Presbyterian Hospice office that owns your request and confirm its fax before sending
Hours: Intake and records keep weekday hours; the program's on-call line receives time-sensitive orders after hours.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Presbyterian Hospice
- Interdisciplinary group (IDG) plan-of-care updates
- Physician orders and verbal-order signatures
- Durable medical equipment (DME) orders — a hospital bed, oxygen, or a wheelchair
- The signed hospice election statement
- Referral and intake paperwork from the discharging unit
Starting hospice care with Presbyterian Hospice by fax
When a discharging hospital refers a patient to Presbyterian Hospice, the referral packet reaches the admissions and referral office. Name the patient and the referring provider on the cover sheet so intake can match the case. Keep the transmission confirmation in case you need to show the referral went through.
Faxing the hospice election and CTI to Presbyterian Hospice
Admitting a patient to Presbyterian 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. Include the patient's name and date of birth so staff match the election to the right chart.
The secure way to fax Presbyterian Hospice
Because these documents hold health information, the transport to Presbyterian Hospice has to be compliant. A consumer fax app is not enough; the channel needs to be encrypted and HIPAA-compliant. 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 Presbyterian Hospice.
Faxing to Presbyterian Hospice — FAQ
Submit a signed release-of-information authorization to medical records at Presbyterian Hospice. The office names the current fax once your request is on file. List the patient identifiers, the dates, and the exact records you want so nothing is missed. They release the copies to the recipient you named after processing.
Not one central number. What you send to medical records will not reach the hospice care team. Confirm the correct line for the office you are reaching before you send. 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. Note the target office — medical records, admission intake, or the hospice care team — on the cover sheet. Attach the signed ROI authorization when the fax is a records request. Check the details once before you send so nothing bounces back.
You can send to Presbyterian Hospice any time, though routine paperwork is worked during business hours. Processing at medical records generally runs Monday through Friday during business hours. The hospice on-call line handles urgent comfort-care orders after hours. A brief follow-up call confirms an urgent fax to Presbyterian Hospice was seen.
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