SHEPHERD'S COVE HOSPICE Reviews

A Review of the Data

Prepared by Richard Saunders as of February 21, 2024.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") distributes numerous tables of data on hospice organizations on a quarterly basis. That is a lot of information to pour through to try and build a comprehensive review of SHEPHERD'S COVE HOSPICE. Luckily, we are here to help! I’ve put together this page to help you to get a better idea of what the hospital does, who is affiliated with it, share any patient survey data and much more. (If you want to jump to a specific section of the review, here are the section headers: General Hospital Data, Performance Data, Patient Survey Results, and Service Area.)

SHEPHERD'S COVE HOSPICE: General Information

Hospice services are typically delivered at a facility or in home, so the physical address for SHEPHERD'S COVE HOSPICE is not terribly important. What is important is to find an agency that serves the geopgraphic area where the patient is living and to find a hospice provider that is responsive to their needs.

Patient Survey Results for SHEPHERD'S COVE HOSPICE

The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems ("CAHPS") Hospice Survey was designed to measure and assess the experiences of patients who died while receiving hospice care, as well as the experiences of their informal primary caregivers. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") developed the CAHPS Hospice Survey with input from many stakeholders, including other government agencies, industry stakeholders, consumer groups, and other key individuals and organizations involved in hospice care. (More information.)

Since the CAHPS Hospice Survey focuses on experiences of care, implementation of the survey supports the following national priorities for improving care: involving patients and families in care and promoting effective communication and coordination.

The standardized 47 question CAHPS Hospice Survey instrument is composed of the following measures: Communication with Family, Getting Timely Help, Treating Patient with Respect, Emotional and Spiritual Support, Help for Pain and Symptoms, Training Family to Care for Patient, Rating of this Hospice, and Willingness to Recommend this Hospice.

Higher Scores are better. Results are available on a facility basis. Averages for each state and for the nation are also available. Allf othis information is shown below.

Performance Data

Below are the results of the survey results for SHEPHERD'S COVE HOSPICE based on the Home Health Care Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems ("HHCAHPS Survey”). If state level results are available a comparison to state averages is shown.

Hospice and Palliative Care Treatment Preferences	99.8 %
Beliefs & Values Addressed (if desired by the patient)	99.3 %
Hospice and Palliative Care Pain Screening	93.5 %
Hospice and Palliative Care Pain Assessment	99.3 %
Hospice and Palliative Care Dyspnea Screening	96.6 %
Hospice and Palliative Care Dyspnea Treatment	92.4 %
Patient Treated with an Opioid Who Are Given a Bowel Regimen	96.2 %
Hospice and Palliative Care Composite Process Measure	88.1 %
Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life	Not Available
Hospice Care Index Overall Score	Not Available
CHC/GIP provided (%days)	Not Available
Gaps in nursing visits (% elections)	Not Available
Early live discharges (% live discharges)	Not Available
Late live discharges (% live discharges)	Not Available
Burdensome transitions, Type 1 (% live discharges)	Not Available
Burdensome transitions, Type 2 (% live discharges)	Not Available
Per-beneficiary spending (U.S. dollars $)	Not Available
Nurse care minutes per routine home care days (minutes)	Not Available
Skilled nursing minutes on weekends (% minutes)	Not Available
Visits near death (% decedents)	Not Available

Service Area

SHEPHERD'S COVE HOSPICE provides home healthcare services in these zip codes. Click on any ZIP Code to see other agencies servicing the ZIP Code.

35951 35016 35019 35031 35055 35058 35077 35083 35087 35121 35131 35133 35175 35603 35670 35744 35747 35752 35754 35755 35758 35763 35765 35768 35769 35772 35776 35803 35901 35903 35904 35905 35906 35907 35950 35952 35954 35956 35957 35959 35961 35962 35963 35964 35967 35968 35971 35974 35975 35976 35978 35980 35981 35984 35986 35988 35989 35990 36107 36265 36272