Stella Maris Hospice Fax Number — Send a Hospice Referral
Sending a hospice referral to Stella Maris Hospice for a hospital or SNF discharge? Those route to the admissions and referral office, which keeps its own fax line. Stella Maris Hospice, a faith-based hospice in Timonium, Maryland, is part of Mercy Health Services 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.
Stella Maris Hospice Fax Number
Confirm the right fax with the Stella Maris Hospice office handling your referral or election paperwork
Hours: The admissions and records offices generally run Monday-Friday during business hours; hospice care is on call around the clock for urgent orders.
Send a Fax NowWhat You Can Fax to Stella Maris Hospice
- Medical records and release-of-information (ROI) authorizations
- A hospice referral from a hospital, SNF, or physician
- Physician orders and verbal-order signatures
- Face-to-face (F2F) recertification encounter documentation
- The signed hospice election statement
The hospital-to-hospice referral path at Stella Maris Hospice
Starting hospice care with Stella Maris Hospice begins with the admissions team that reviews the referral. The admissions team reviews the referral — the terminal prognosis, the goals of care, and the payer — before the hospice team visits. Ask Stella Maris Hospice whether the referral should go to a central intake line or the local office.
Election statement and face-to-face recert at Stella Maris Hospice
The signed election statement and the CTI for a patient of Stella Maris Hospice go to the admissions office that opens the benefit period. 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 Stella Maris Hospice
Faxing PHI to Stella Maris Hospice is allowed, but the service you use has to protect it. A walk-in machine in a shared space cannot promise the confidentiality the rules expect. 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 Stella Maris Hospice than a public machine.
Faxing to Stella Maris 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. List the patient identifiers, the dates, and the exact records you want so nothing is missed. Turnaround depends on the request; routine copies are handled in the order received.
No. Stella Maris Hospice routes faxes to separate office lines, so medical records and the admissions and referral office do not share a number. The line for medical records is separate from the one for admission intake. Confirm the correct line for the office you are reaching before you send. When in doubt, ask Stella Maris Hospice for the office by name.
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. Clear labeling is what keeps a multi-page record together at Stella Maris Hospice.
Faxes reach Stella Maris Hospice whenever you send, but when they are handled varies by office. Processing at medical records generally runs Monday through Friday during business hours. The hospice on-call line handles urgent comfort-care orders after hours. Expect same-day handling for the urgent orders the on-call team watches for.
A hospice referral and the certification of terminal illness go to the admissions and referral office, which also coordinates spiritual and chaplaincy care. Ask Stella Maris Hospice for the current hospice intake line first. Send the election statement, the CTI, and the current comfort-care orders. Send the whole packet as one job so nothing arrives split. Doing it that way avoids the most common cause of a delay.
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