Hospice care in St. George, Utah

Serving St. George families at home

It also means we know the local system. We coordinate routinely with the hospitals and specialty practices in town, with the assisted living and memory care communities along River Road and Bluff Street and with the skilled nursing facilities where many families first hear the word “hospice.” If your loved one is being discharged, call us before the paperwork is done and we will meet the discharge — bed, oxygen and comfort medications waiting at the house.

St. George also has a particular pattern we plan around: winter residents and out-of-state adult children. If the family making decisions is in Salt Lake, Las Vegas, or California, we will do the calls on a schedule that works across time zones and keep everyone on the same page rather than making one sibling relay everything.

We come to wherever home is in St. George: 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.

Care from an office in your own town

Our office is on North Industrial Road, which means that when we say care is local, it is a literal statement about geography rather than a marketing line. Nurses leave from here. Equipment is dispatched from here. The person who answers at two in the morning is on the same side of the same city as you.

St. George also has a caregiving pattern we see more here than anywhere else in the county: a parent who retired to Southern Utah and adult children who live somewhere else. That changes what a family actually needs. Often the hardest part is not the clinical care — it is a son in another state trying to judge, over the phone, whether today is different from yesterday. We plan for that deliberately: clear updates to whoever the family designates, a nurse who will take the long-distance call, and honest answers about what is happening rather than reassurance that leaves someone booking a flight too late.

If a hospital stay is part of how this started, the discharge conversation usually moves faster than families expect. You are allowed to ask for time, and you are allowed to ask for us by name. Nobody has to accept the first option handed to them on a discharge form.

What St. George 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 St. George

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 St. George 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? →