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Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center Fax Number — Plan of Care and Functional Assessment

The interdisciplinary plan of care at Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center establishes medical necessity for the rehab admission and is faxed to the payer — this guide covers it. Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center, a neurorehabilitation hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan, sends referrals, plans of care, and discharge summaries by fax every day. Because a plan of care is protected health information, this guide covers both where to send it and how to keep the transmission compliant.

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Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center Fax Number

Ask Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center's admissions or pre-admission liaison for the current fax number

Hours: A fax to a rehab hospital lands whenever you send it because the units are staffed overnight, but an authorization packet or a records release sent after hours is picked up the next business day.

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What You Can Fax to Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center

  • A functional assessment covering mobility, self-care, and cognition
  • The operative or acute discharge summary from the transferring hospital
  • A progress update back to the referring neurologist or trauma team
  • A discharge summary and continuing-therapy orders to the next provider
  • A referral and pre-admission screening for a stroke, brain-injury, or spinal-cord-injury patient
Tip: Mark all pages with the identifiers Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center needs to reconnect a split referral or rehabilitation record. State which Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center desk the fax is for — pre-admission screening, authorization, or records — on the cover sheet so it is routed on the first try. Send multi-page records and the plan of care as one combined PDF and keep the delivery confirmation.

How Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center faxes the physician plan of care

A functional assessment and the plan of care from Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center document where the patient starts and the intensive-therapy goals, and they are faxed to the payer and shared with the referring team. Name the patient, the admitting physician, and the diagnosis so the payer can match the plan. Flag a time-sensitive authorization so it is worked the same day.

How a rehab referral reaches Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center

The first document into Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center is usually a pre-admission screening packet from a hospital case manager, faxed with the acute record so the rehabilitation physician can assess whether the patient can tolerate intensive therapy. State the anticipated therapy needs and any precautions so the screening reaches the right program. Send the referral and the acute record as one PDF so nothing is separated.

Keeping rehab records to Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center HIPAA-compliant

Faxing rehabilitation records to Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center is allowed, but the service you use has to protect them. A shared machine in an open work area cannot promise the confidentiality the rules expect. With Send FAX Mail you send from a phone or computer over a HIPAA-compliant, encrypted connection — Professional is $39.99/month and Business $79.99/month — appropriate for records sent to Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center.

Faxing to Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center — FAQ

A number copied from a search result may be stale; Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center has the current one. Call Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center and ask for pre-admission screening, the authorization coordinator, or records. Verifying the office and the line up front is the honest shortcut. Note the number the first time so the next fax to Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center is quicker.

Start with a signed release form to Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center's health-information staff. The health-information staff confirm the fax destination for the authorization. Note whether the requester is the patient, the referring provider, or the payer on the authorization. They release the copies to the recipient you named after processing.

Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center is usually reached at a couple of lines that cover admissions, authorization, and records. The lines are separate, and the person who works each one varies by request. Check with Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center so the fax reaches the right person. Sending to the wrong desk only delays the document.

That is a standard workflow; Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center accepts a faxed pre-admission packet so the physiatrist can screen the patient. The more complete the H&P and notes, the faster the team can screen it. Nothing about the patient's course is lost between the acute hospital and the rehab hospital when the packet is complete. Put the patient's identifiers and the referring case manager on every page.

For a stroke, brain-injury, or spinal-cord patient, Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center takes the pre-admission screening with the neurology or trauma H&P, faxes the plan of care with cognitive and mobility goals to the payer, and faxes the discharge summary to outpatient therapy. Get the current fax from Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center directly. Send the screening packet and the imaging as one PDF so the record is complete. Keep the transmission confirmation in case you need to show it went through. The result is a clean hand-off to the right staff at Southwest Regional Rehabilitation Center.

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