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Salem Health Spine Center

Spine Center services for physicians

 

Salem Health Spine Center offers you an easier way to refer patients with neck, back or spine pain.

Use the Salem Health Spine Center to:

  • Help your patients receive timely treatment.
  • Save your staff time in coordinating additional patient care.
  • Be kept in the loop with progress reports.
  • Satisfy patients by leveraging this valuable service.

For optimum patient referral, we suggest first completing the following:

  • Initial evaluation/exam.
  • Initial medications (e.g., anti-inflammatories).
  • Initial diagnostics and treatment (e.g., MRI, PT).
  • Salem Health Spine Center referral form.

Once you refer your patients, they will receive rapid assessment by a neurosurgeon and coordination of care.

A Salem Health Spine Center nurse navigator will keep you updated throughout the process.

 

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Make a referral

To make a referral, call the Salem Health Spine Center at 503-814-BACK (2225) or download a physician referral form and fax it, along with records that pertain to the spine problem, to the Salem Health Spine Center at 503-814-5495.

Please remember a spine level MRI within the last 12 months is required for a referral to the Salem Health Spine Center. If an MRI is unable to be completed, a CT scan will suffice.

Salem Health Spine Center hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Once the Salem Health Spine Center receives your referral, one of our intake specialists will contact your patient to obtain a complete history of their spine problem and collect recent X-rays, MRIs or other pertinent images.

A neurosurgeon reviews that information and makes a treatment recommendation. If additional patient referrals are necessary, our nurse navigators will handle those referrals — once we have received your initial referral — and keep you informed of the recommendations and plan.