Sanford Hospice Fax Number — Send a Hospice Referral
Sending a hospice referral to Sanford Hospice for a hospital or SNF discharge? Those route to the admissions and referral office, which keeps its own fax line. Sanford Hospice, a hospital-affiliated hospice in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is part of Sanford Health and receives clinical documents by fax every day. Send the discharge summary with the medication list, physician orders, and prognosis documentation so intake can review without waiting on a second fax.
Sanford Hospice Fax Number
Check with the health system's hospice line or Sanford Hospice's intake desk for the correct number
Hours: The intake and health-information offices generally run Monday-Friday during business hours; the hospice on-call line handles urgent orders after hours.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Sanford Hospice
- Comfort-kit and medication orders coordinated with the pharmacy
- The certification of terminal illness (CTI)
- Medical records and release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
- A hospital discharge summary and transition-to-hospice referral
- Interdisciplinary group (IDG) plan-of-care updates
The hospital-to-hospice referral path at Sanford Hospice
A hospice referral to Sanford Hospice — from a hospital, a skilled nursing facility, a physician, or a discharge planner — goes to the admissions and referral office. Send the discharge summary with the current medication list, the physician's orders, and the prognosis documentation. Confirm the intake fax with Sanford Hospice before you send the referral packet.
Election statement and face-to-face recert at Sanford Hospice
Admitting a patient to Sanford Hospice means the hospice election statement and the physician's certification of terminal illness reach the admissions and referral office. A face-to-face (F2F) encounter is required to recertify the patient for the third benefit period and each one after it. Send the election statement, the CTI, and the F2F note together so nothing arrives split.
HIPAA and your fax to Sanford Hospice
Faxing PHI to Sanford Hospice is allowed, but the service you use has to protect it. A consumer fax app is not enough; the channel needs to be encrypted and HIPAA-compliant. 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 Sanford Hospice than a public machine.
Faxing to Sanford Hospice — FAQ
Submit a signed release-of-information authorization to medical records at Sanford Hospice. The office names the current fax once your request is on file. A complete request — identifiers, dates, and records wanted — moves fastest. Turnaround depends on the request; routine copies are handled in the order received.
Not one central number. What you send to medical records will not reach the hospice care team. Verify the current fax for the admissions and referral office or your target office first. When in doubt, ask Sanford Hospice for the office by name.
Every page should carry the patient's full name, date of birth, and record number. On the cover sheet, name medical records or the receiving office so it lands with the right team. A delivery confirmation then tells you the fax reached Sanford Hospice. Clear labeling is what keeps a multi-page record together at Sanford Hospice.
Incoming faxes to Sanford Hospice are never turned away by the hour, but processing is not always immediate. Processing at medical records generally runs Monday through Friday during business hours. Send routine requests early in the day for same-day handling; urgent symptom-management orders are actioned immediately. Expect same-day handling for the urgent orders the on-call team watches for.
A transition-to-hospice referral goes to the admissions office that reviews transfers from the health system. Get the working intake fax from the health system's hospice office. Send the discharge summary, the prognosis documentation, and the goals-of-care note. Send the whole packet as one job so nothing arrives split. That keeps the referral moving without a second round trip.
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