Hospice care in Rockville, Utah

Serving Rockville families at home

Our job is to make that possible rather than treating the distance as a reason it can’t happen. Small town, narrow lanes, older houses — none of that stops hospice. It just means planning: equipment sized for the room it is actually going in and a nurse who has driven the route in daylight before being asked to drive it at night.

Rockville families also tend to be private and we respect that. Hospice does not mean a parade of strangers through your living room. It means a small, consistent team, the same faces and no more people in the house than you want there.

We come to wherever home is in Rockville: 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.

Old houses on a quiet road

Rockville is a handful of streets along the Virgin River just west of Springdale, and much of the housing stock is genuinely old — historic homes that people have kept carefully, which is lovely to live in and awkward to nurse in.

Old houses mean narrow doorways, tight bathrooms, steep staircases and bedrooms upstairs. A hospital bed will not go through every door in Rockville, and finding that out with the bed on the truck helps nobody. So we look at the house properly and early, and we are honest when the answer is that the sensible room is the front parlour rather than the bedroom someone has slept in for forty years. That is a hard conversation and it goes better with time in hand.

The town's quiet is a real asset at the end of life. People come out here for it. There is no clinical reason a person cannot spend their last weeks in a quiet house by the river with the windows open, and a good deal of reason to think it is better than the alternative.

What Rockville 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 Rockville

Cost is the question families ask last and worry about first, so: for most, it is nothing. Medicare Part A, Utah Medicaid and most private plans all cover hospice. We verify your coverage and give you the numbers in writing before anything gets signed. See exactly what is and isn’t covered →

Not sure it’s time yet?

Almost nobody calls us certain. Asking early costs nothing and changes what is still possible, which is why we would rather you called too soon than too late. The guide covers the signs, the first 48 hours and how hospice differs from palliative care. Read: How do I know when it’s time? →