Alive Hospice Inc in Nashville, Tennessee

Alive Hospice Inc is a medicare-certified hospice facility in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a non-profit hospice and this hospice is a Freestanding Hospice. It is located at 1718 Patterson Road in Nashville, Tennessee. You can reach out to the office of Alive Hospice Inc via phone at (615) 327-1085.

Alive Hospice Inc is first approved in April, 1984 to provide medicare and/or medicaid services and its CMS certification number (CCN) is 441501. Atlanta is the CMS Regional Office responsible for the certification of this hospice.

Contact Information


Alive Hospice Inc
1718 Patterson Road, Nashville, TN, 37203
(615) 327-1085

Map and Direction



Hospice Profile

NameAlive Hospice Inc
Location1718 Patterson Road, Nashville, Tennessee
Hospice ID441501
CategoryFreestanding Hospice
Ownership TypeVoluntary Non-profit - Private
Profit TypeNON-PROFIT
Accreditation ProviderThe Joint Commission (TJC)
SSA county code180

NPI associated with this Hospice

A hospice usually have one NPI number but sometimes it may have multiple NPI numbers. We have found possible NPI number/s associated with Alive Hospice Inc from NPPES records by matching pattern on the basis of name, address, phone number etc. Please use this information accordingly.

NPI Number1184682858
Organization NameAlive Hospice, Inc
Address1718 Patterson St Nashville, Tennessee, 37203
Phone Number(615)327-1085

NPI Number1114241437
Organization NameAlive Hospice, Inc.
Address1718 Patterson St Nashville, Tennessee, 37203
Phone Number(615)327-1085

NPI Number1205022480
Organization NameAlive Hospice At St. Thomas Hospital
Address1718 Patterson St Nashville, Tennessee, 37203
Phone Number(615)327-1085

NPI Number1740772201
Organization Name
Address1718 Patterson St Nashville, Tennessee, 37203
Phone Number(615)306-9380

NPI Number1851587026
Organization NameAlive Hospice At Skyline Madison Campus
Address1718 Patterson St Nashville, Tennessee, 37203
Phone Number(615)327-1082

NPI Number1881643260
Organization NameAlive Hospice, Inc
Address1718 Patterson St Nashville, Tennessee, 37203
Phone Number(615)327-1085

Quality of Patient Care at Alive Hospice Inc

Hospice staff should discuss treatment preferences and patient beliefs and values with patients and/or caregivers. They should also identify and provide interventions to address pain, shortness of breath and constipation (caused by opioids) to improve patient comfort and quality of life. Alive Hospice Inc has the following score in these measures of patient care.
Better than National Average Worse than National Average

Quality MeasureProvider ScoreNational Score
Patients or caregivers who were asked about treatment preferences like hospitalization and resuscitation at the beginning of hospice care97.098.3
Patients or caregivers who were asked about their beliefs and values at the beginning of hospice care86.593.6
Patients who were checked for pain at the beginning of hospice care96.393.9
Patients who got a timely and thorough pain assessment when pain was identified as a problem81.977.7
Patients who were checked for shortness of breath at the beginning of hospice care99.597.3
Patients who got timely treatment for shortness of breath93.994.6
Patients taking opioid pain medication who were offered care for constipation95.793.3

Services Provided by Alive Hospice Inc:

Hospice provide various services either through their own staff or through third-party arrangements. Find the list of services provided by Alive Hospice Inc below:
  • By staff
    • Home Health Aide Service
    • Counseling Service
    • Medical Social Service
    • Nursing Service
    • Physician Service
    • Short Term Inpatient care

  • Under Arrangement
    • Medical Supply Service
    • Occupational Therapy
    • Physical Therapy
    • Speech Pathology

  • Combination of Staff and Under Arrangement
    • No services

  • Type of Short Term Inpatient Care
    • Acute and Respite

Number of Full-time equivalent Employees:

Number of full time equivalent employees at Alive Hospice Inc
Home Health Aides43
Counselors6
Licensed Practical or Vocational Nurses10
Medical Social Workers 17
Physicians6
Registered Nurses99
Other Personnel86
Total Employees267

Number of Full-time equivalent Volunteers:

Others321
Total Volunteers321

Certification Details for Alive Hospice Inc:

  • April, 2008 is the initial visit of the health survey for certifications by CMS.
  • It is in compliance at the time of certification survey by CMS.
  • It is eligible to participate in the medicare and/or medicaid program.
  • Blue Cross (south Carolina) is the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC), intermediary or carrier servicing this hospice.
  • Current status is Active Provider.
  • Reason of certification is Recertification.
  • End of fiscal year is on 31, December.

Hospices in Nashville

Alive Hospice Inc
Location: 1718 Patterson Road, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203
Phone: (615) 327-1085
Aseracare Hospice - Nashville
Location: 441 Donelson Pike, Suite 400, Nashville, Tennessee, 37214
Phone: (615) 327-1085
Avalon Hospice
Location: 2525 Perimeter Place Drive, Suite 105, Nashville, Tennessee, 37214
Phone: (615) 327-1085
Gentiva Hospice
Location: 1400 Donelson Pike Suite B5, Nashville, Tennessee, 37217
Phone: (615) 327-1085

Medicare Hospice Care

What is Hospice Care?
Hospice care is a type of care and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs. Care may be provided in a patient's home or in a designated facility such as nursing home, hospital unit or freestanding hospice, with level of care and sometimes location based upon frequent evaluation of the paients needs. The four primary levels of care provided by hospice are routine home care, continuous care, general inpatient and respite care.

How long can one get medicare hospice care?
Hospice care is for people with a life expectancy of 6 months or less (if the disease runs its normal course). If the person receiving hospice care live longer than 6 months, he or she can still get hospice care.
  • A person can get hospice care for two 90-day benefit periods, followed by an unlimited number of 60-day benefit periods.
  • At the start of each period, the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor must recertify that the person is terminally ill (with a life expectancy of 6 months or less). This step is must for continued hospice care.

Medicare Program: Medicare is a federal government program which provides health insurance to people who are 65 or older. This program also covers certain younger people with disabilities (who receive Social Security Disability Insurance - SSDI), and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD.

Medicare Assignment: Assignment means that your doctor, provider, or supplier agrees (or is required by law) to accept the Medicare-approved amount as full payment for covered services. Most doctors, providers, and suppliers accept assignment, but you should always check to make sure. Participating providers have signed an agreement to accept assignment for all Medicare-covered services.

NPI Number: The National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique identification number for covered health care providers. The NPI must be used in lieu of legacy provider identifiers in the HIPAA standards transactions. Covered health care providers and all health plans and health care clearinghouses must use the NPIs in the administrative and financial transactions adopted under HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

Our Data: Information on www.medicarelist.com is built using data sources published by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The information disclosed on the NPI Registry are FOIA-disclosable and are required to be disclosed under the FOIA and the eFOIA amendments to the FOIA. There is no way to 'opt out' or 'suppress' the NPPES record data for health care providers with active NPIs.