A perfect Care Index score
Medicare scores every hospice on ten quality indicators. We meet all ten, weekend skilled visits and end-of-life nurse visits among them. The scores are public — compare them.
Washington County, Utah · A nurse answers any hour
Hospice care in Washington, Utah
Washington City has grown quickly and a lot of that growth is people who retired here from somewhere else. When the family making decisions lives two states away, the coordination is half the work — and we do that half.
10/10 Medicare Hospice Care Index
Locally owned
Same-day admissions
Serving Washington families at home
Practically, Washington is minutes from our St. George team, so response times here are among our fastest. We serve private homes throughout Coral Canyon, Green Springs, Sienna Hills, Washington Fields and the older neighborhoods near Telegraph Street, along with the assisted living and memory care communities in the area.
For families spread across states, we will schedule calls so everyone hears the same information from us at the same time, rather than making one adult child translate a nurse’s update for four siblings. It removes a surprising amount of friction from an already hard month.
We come to wherever home is in Washington: 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: Coral Canyon, Green Springs, Sienna Hills, Washington Fields, Warner Valley and the neighborhoods along Telegraph Street. Not sure whether your address is inside our service area? Call and ask — the answer is usually yes.
New neighbourhoods, and the problem with new neighbourhoods
Washington has grown quickly, and a lot of the growth is in subdivisions where almost nobody has lived long enough to know the people three doors down. Washington Fields and Coral Canyon are full of houses that went up faster than communities form around them.
That matters more than it sounds. Hospice leans on the informal layer around a family — the neighbour who notices, the friend who sits for an afternoon. In an established town that layer is already there. In a five-year-old subdivision it often is not, and the daughter doing everything alone has no one nearby to hand it to. So in these neighbourhoods we lean harder on the parts of the benefit that are ours to give: more structured respite, social work involved earlier rather than as a last resort, and volunteers where a family wants them.
Old Washington is a different picture entirely — families who have been on the same streets for generations, sometimes with more helping hands than anyone can coordinate. That needs the opposite approach: not more people, but one clear plan so eight willing relatives are not each doing a different version of the same thing.
What Washington 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 Washington
Almost every family in Washington pays nothing. Medicare Part A covers hospice, Utah Medicaid covers it, and most private plans follow the same terms. Before you sign anything we check your specific coverage and put the figures in front of you in writing. See exactly what is and isn’t covered →
Not sure it’s time yet?
Most families in Washington call us with exactly that question, and asking it early is far better than asking it late. We have written the signs down plainly, along with what the first 48 hours look like and how hospice differs from palliative care. Read: How do I know when it’s time? →
Why families here choose us
Ten out of ten 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.
Owned and run here
Nobody in another state decides how often somebody visits your father. Those calls are made in Southern Utah by people who still go out on visits themselves.
A nurse who comes out at night
The after-hours number reaches our own nurse, not an answering service — and when it is warranted she drives out. That is what keeps families out of the emergency room at 2am.
Hospice care in Washington, starting today
Admissions happen seven days a week, including evenings. Call and we will come out and explain everything — free and with no obligation.