St. Croix Hospice of Duluth Fax Number — Send Medical Records and Release Requests
Need to send or request a patient's records from St. Croix Hospice of Duluth? Those go through its records office on a signed release, not a general fax line. St. Croix Hospice of Duluth, a hospice program in Duluth, Minnesota, is part of St. Croix Hospice and receives clinical documents by fax every day. Because a patient's chart is protected health information, this guide covers both where to send it and how to keep the transmission compliant.
St. Croix Hospice of Duluth Fax Number
Check the operator's site or call St. Croix Hospice of Duluth directly for the correct office line
Hours: Routine intake processing runs Monday to Friday; urgent hospice orders reach the on-call clinician around the clock.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to St. Croix Hospice of Duluth
- Physician orders and verbal-order signatures
- A hospice referral from a hospital, SNF, or physician
- Central-intake referral and insurance verification paperwork
- Durable medical equipment (DME) orders — a hospital bed, oxygen, or a wheelchair
- The certification of terminal illness (CTI)
Release of information at St. Croix Hospice of Duluth
Release of information at St. Croix Hospice of Duluth runs through a dedicated records office on a signed authorization. The office matches the request to the patient's file before anything is sent out. Address the cover sheet to medical records so it reaches the right desk.
Identifiers your fax to St. Croix Hospice of Duluth needs
How you label the pages decides whether St. Croix Hospice of Duluth can reconnect them if they get separated. Put the patient's full name, date of birth, and medical record number on every page. Send multi-page records as one combined PDF so the documents stay in order.
Protected health information and St. Croix Hospice of Duluth
Anything with a patient's history headed to St. Croix Hospice of Duluth is protected data under HIPAA. A walk-in machine in a shared space cannot promise the confidentiality the rules expect. Send FAX Mail includes HIPAA and encryption starting at $39.99/month, so PHI headed to St. Croix Hospice of Duluth travels over a compliant channel instead of a fax machine in a shared office.
Faxing to St. Croix Hospice of Duluth — FAQ
St. Croix Hospice of Duluth receives faxes at any hour, but the offices that process them keep set schedules. Processing at medical records generally runs Monday through Friday during business hours. Urgent referrals and comfort-care orders reach the on-call clinician at any hour regardless of the office schedule. Expect same-day handling for the urgent orders the on-call team watches for.
Yes — HIPAA permits faxing protected health information when the channel is secure. The risk is not the fax itself but an unsecured tool, so a free app or a public machine will not do. Send FAX Mail includes HIPAA and encryption from $39.99/month for faxes to St. Croix Hospice of Duluth. A secure send protects both you and the patient whose chart it is.
The current line comes from St. Croix Hospice of Duluth directly, since office numbers change. The discharging hospital's case manager often already has the correct St. Croix Hospice of Duluth fax on file. Verifying the office and the line up front is the honest shortcut. That confirmation is the difference between a delivered record and a lost one.
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. Put the patient identifiers and the requested dates on the authorization. Turnaround depends on the request; routine copies are handled in the order received.
Send the referral packet to central intake or the St. Croix Hospice of Duluth office serving the patient's area. Get the current intake fax from St. Croix Hospice of Duluth directly rather than an old listing. Send the discharge summary, the election statement, and the CTI as one packet. Keep the transmission confirmation in case you need to show it went through. That keeps the referral moving without a second round trip.
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