Providence Hospice Fax Number — Send a Hospice Referral
A referral to Providence Hospice goes to the intake team that reviews new patients, so the destination line depends on the referral. Providence Hospice is part of Providence Health & Services, a hospital-affiliated hospice in Portland, Oregon, caring for patients and families across the Pacific Northwest. Send the discharge summary with the medication list, physician orders, and prognosis documentation so intake can review without waiting on a second fax.
Providence Hospice Fax Number
Check with the health system's hospice line or Providence Hospice's intake desk for the correct number
Hours: Administrative offices are open weekdays; urgent transition-of-care and order faxes reach the on-call team evenings and weekends.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Providence Hospice
- Comfort-kit and medication orders coordinated with the pharmacy
- Interdisciplinary group (IDG) plan-of-care updates
- A hospital discharge summary and transition-to-hospice referral
- Medical records and release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
- The certification of terminal illness (CTI)
The hospital-to-hospice referral path at Providence Hospice
A hospice referral to Providence Hospice — from a hospital, a skilled nursing facility, a physician, or a discharge planner — goes to the admissions and referral office. Group the referral documents into one job rather than several separate faxes. Send the complete packet at once so intake is not waiting on a second fax.
Election statement and face-to-face recert at Providence Hospice
Admitting a patient to Providence Hospice means the hospice election statement and the physician's certification of terminal illness reach the admissions and referral office. The election statement names the hospice, the effective date, and the patient's acknowledgment of the comfort-focused plan of care. Address the cover sheet to the admissions office so the election reaches the team that opens the case.
HIPAA and your fax to Providence Hospice
A patient's records are protected health information, so how you fax them to Providence Hospice matters. Encryption in transit and a compliant provider are what keep the transmission within the rules. 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 Providence Hospice.
Faxing to Providence Hospice — FAQ
Send a signed release form to the records staff who manage the patient's file. The office names the current fax once your request is on file. Include the patient's name, date of birth, and the record types and date range. Once processed, Providence Hospice releases the records to you or the party you named.
No. Documents go to different fax lines at Providence Hospice depending on the office. What you send to medical records will not reach 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. Note the target office — medical records, admission intake, or the hospice care team — on the cover sheet. That routing detail is what lets Providence Hospice reconnect the documents if they separate. Complete, legible identifiers are what move the request fastest.
You can send to Providence Hospice any time, though routine paperwork is worked during business hours. Processing at medical records generally runs Monday through Friday during business hours. Time-critical orders are picked up at any hour by the on-call hospice clinician. Plan routine requests for a weekday morning when the office is fully staffed.
Send the discharge packet to intake at Providence Hospice, which screens new referrals. Ask Providence Hospice for the current hospice referral line first. Send the discharge summary, the prognosis documentation, and the goals-of-care note. A brief call ahead helps staff watch for a time-sensitive fax. Doing it that way avoids the most common cause of a delay.
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