Hospice care in Hurricane, Utah

Serving Hurricane families at home

Many of the people we care for in Hurricane have lived in the same house for decades, often on an acre or two with family nearby. That is close to an ideal hospice situation: familiar surroundings and hands available. Our job is to make it workable — the right equipment delivered and set up, the family taught how to reposition someone safely and give a comfort medication and a nurse on the phone the moment something changes.

We also serve the communities out this way that get overlooked on service-area maps: La Verkin, Toquerville, Virgin, Rockville, Springdale and Apple Valley. If you are caring for someone near Zion and wondering whether anyone will actually come out that far — call us and ask directly.

We come to wherever home is in Hurricane: a private house, a family member’s spare room, an assisted living apartment, memory care, or a skilled nursing facility. The goal is always to avoid one more move.

A town that does not need to borrow St. George

Hurricane has its own downtown, its own schools and its own way of doing things, and families here are often quietly braced to be told that the real services are half an hour west. For hospice, they are not. The benefit is delivered in your house, so the question is never whether a town is big enough — it is whether the agency will actually drive out.

We do, on the same schedule we run in St. George. Nurse visits, aide visits, equipment delivered and set up, and a nurse who will come out at night rather than talking you through it on the phone. The 24-hour line is not a message service that pages someone; it reaches our own team.

Hurricane is also the practical crossroads for the eastern half of the county — the road through to La Verkin, Toquerville, Virgin and on toward Zion runs through here. If you are in one of those smaller towns and have been told you sit outside somebody's service area, that is worth one phone call to check rather than assuming. Being told no by another agency is not the same as being outside ours.

What Hurricane families get

• A registered nurse (RN) on call 24 hours a day — reaching our own team, not a third-party answering service and able to come out at night.
• Certified nursing assistant (CNA) visits for bathing, grooming and personal care, from people your family comes to know.
• Aggressive pain and symptom management, adjusted as often as it takes and overseen by our medical director, Dr. Karen Radley.
• Medications, equipment and supplies related to the hospice diagnosis — delivered to your door and set up.
• Social work, chaplaincy, massage therapy and volunteers as part of the same benefit, at no additional cost.
• Bereavement support for 13 months after a death, for the whole family.

What it costs in Hurricane

The usual answer is nothing. Hospice sits under Medicare Part A, Utah Medicaid covers it, and most private insurers treat it the same way. We confirm what your own plan does and hand you the numbers in writing — no signature before that. See exactly what is and isn’t covered →

Not sure it’s time yet?

Nearly everyone starts here. It is a better question asked six weeks early than a week late, and there is no cost to asking it. Our guide covers the signs, the first 48 hours, and the difference between hospice and palliative care in plain English. Read: How do I know when it’s time? →