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Hospice care in New Harmony, Utah
New Harmony sits in its own valley under the Pine Valley Mountains, off the interstate and deliberately out of the way. Being hard to find should not mean being hard to care for.
10/10 Medicare Hospice Care Index
Locally owned
Same-day admissions
Serving New Harmony families at home
This is ranching country and the families reflect it: practical, self-sufficient and slower to ask for help than almost anyone we serve. The mistake we try to prevent is a family managing alone until a crisis forces a 40-minute ambulance ride and a death in a hospital nobody wanted.
Calling early costs you nothing and changes that. We come to you, we bring what the house needs before it needs it and at 5,300 feet with real winters we plan oxygen and heating around the weather you actually get rather than the weather in St. George.
We come to wherever home is in New Harmony: 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.
Also serving nearby: Kolob, Pintura and the ranches along the old highway toward Ash Creek. Not sure whether your address is inside our service area? Call and ask — the answer is usually yes.
Winter is an actual factor here
New Harmony sits at the north end of the county under the Pine Valley Mountains, and it is high enough that winter behaves differently than it does in St. George. Snow, ice on the approach roads and genuinely cold nights are normal here while the valley is still mild. Any care plan that ignores that is a plan written for somewhere else.
So we plan for weather explicitly. Medications and supplies stocked deeper going into winter, equipment delivered ahead of a forecast rather than during it, and a clear understanding of which route to the house is passable when the weather turns. We would rather carry a week's margin than have a family ration comfort medication because of a storm.
Power matters here too. If someone is using an oxygen concentrator, a winter outage is not an inconvenience, it is a clinical event. That conversation belongs at the start — backup supply, who to call, what to do first — not on the night the lights go out.
The town is small and the drive from St. George is a straightforward run up the interstate. Distance is a logistics problem to be solved, not a reason to send a family somewhere else.
What New Harmony 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.
- Pain and symptom management adjusted as often as it takes, overseen by our medical director, Dr. Karen Radley. How we manage symptoms →
- 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.
- Respite care so the family caregiver can rest. How respite works →
- Bereavement support for 13 months after a death, for the whole family.
What it costs in New Harmony
For most families, nothing out of pocket. Hospice is covered under Medicare Part A and Utah Medicaid and most private insurance plans cover it on similar terms. We verify your coverage and give you the numbers in writing before anything is signed. See exactly what is and isn’t covered →
Not sure it’s time yet?
That is the most common place families in New Harmony start and it is the right question to ask early rather than late. We wrote a plain-English guide to the signs, the first 48 hours and how hospice differs from palliative care. Read: How do I know when it’s time? →
Why families here choose us
Top-rated locally and no phone tree
Every hospice bills Medicare the same daily rate. What differs is how often somebody actually comes to the house — which is exactly what Medicare’s Hospice Care Index measures.
Locally owned
Staffing decisions are made here in Southern Utah, by people who also go out on visits. You will know your nurse by name.
Nights and weekends
After-hours calls reach our own nurse — and a nurse will come out. Fewer emergency room trips at 2am.
Hospice care in New Harmony, starting today
Admissions happen seven days a week, including evenings. Call and we will come out and explain everything — free and with no obligation.