If hospice care is part of the conversation for your family, this shows what Medicare puts on the record for hospices in your area: how families who have already been through it rated the care, in plain English. It will not make the decision for you. It only makes the information easy to find.
Medicare surveys the families afterward. We translate it: how often the team communicated well, came when needed, and treated their loved one with respect.
The share of families who would definitely recommend this hospice: a number worth weighing.
How often families said their loved one always got the help they needed for pain and symptoms, and the right emotional and spiritual support.
Many hospices don't have enough survey responses for Medicare to publish a rating. We say so plainly. Missing data is not a mark against the care.
Still weighing what kind of care fits? The free assessment is a calmer place to start.
Data: Medicare.gov Care Compare (Hospice) via the CMS Provider Data Catalog (data.cms.gov), keyless public data: the Provider CAHPS Hospice Survey (family caregiver survey, dataset gxki-hrr8), hospice quality measures (dataset 252m-zfp9), and the hospice registry with ownership (dataset yc9t-dgbk). We translate the public record into plain English; the ratings and figures are Medicare's own. We never rate hospices ourselves. Survey results reflect the experiences of families in a past reporting period, not a guarantee of any future care.