Ensure Hospice, Inc is a medicare-certified hospice facility in Palmdale, California. It is a for-profit hospice and is a freestanding hospice. It is located at 1609 E Palmdale Blvd Unit B in Palmdale, California. You can reach out to the office of Ensure Hospice, Inc via phone at
(747) 262-5572. Ensure Hospice, Inc was first approved in October, 2021 to provide medicare and/or medicaid services and its CMS certification number (CCN) is B21792. San Francisco is the CMS Regional Office responsible for the certification of this hospice.
Hospice Profile
| Name | Ensure Hospice, Inc |
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| Location | 1609 E Palmdale Blvd Unit B, Palmdale, California |
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| Hospice ID | B21792 |
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| Category | Freestanding Hospice |
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| Ownership Type | Proprietary - Corporation |
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| Profit Type | For Profit |
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| Accreditation Provider | Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) |
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| SSA county code | 210 |
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NPI associated with this Hospice
A hospice usually has one NPI number, but sometimes it may have several. NPIs marked
Confirmed are listed with Ensure Hospice, Inc in Medicare enrollment records;
Possible ones were matched in NPPES by name, address or phone number, so please use them accordingly.
| NPI Number | 1649884834 |
| Match | Possible same name, address or phone number |
| Organization Name | Ensure Hospice Inc |
| Address | 1609b E Palmdale Blvd, Palmdale, California 93550 |
| Phone Number | (747)262-5572 |
Hospice Care Index
The Hospice Care Index combines 10 indicators from Medicare claims into a score from 0 to 10, where a higher score is better. Ensure Hospice, Inc has a Hospice Care Index score of
9 out of 10 (national average: 8.8).
| Indicator | Provider | National |
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| Days of care at the continuous home care or general inpatient level (% of hospice days) (higher is better) | 0% | 0.5% |
| Hospice stays with a gap of more than 7 days between skilled nursing visits (% of stays) (lower is better) | 87.9% | 52.4% |
| Patients discharged alive within 7 days of starting hospice (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 0% | 7.3% |
| Patients discharged alive after 180 days or more of hospice care (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 39.6% | 37.4% |
| Discharged alive, hospitalized within 2 days, then back in hospice (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 3% | 8.5% |
| Discharged alive, hospitalized within 2 days and died in the hospital (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 0% | 2.1% |
| Medicare spending per patient (lower is better) | $23,547 | $19,227 |
| Minutes of skilled nursing care per routine home care day (higher is better) | 9.7 | 19.9 |
| Skilled nursing care given on weekends (% of skilled nursing minutes) (higher is better) | 23.8% | 9.6% |
| Patients who got a visit from a nurse or social worker in the last 3 days of life (% of patients who died) (higher is better) | 100% | 89.3% |
Based on Medicare claims from January 2023 to December 2024.
Patients Served by Ensure Hospice, Inc:
| Average number of patients per day | 33 |
| Levels of care provided | Routine home care and other levels of care |
| Served patients with Medicare Advantage | Yes |
| Served patients with both Medicare and Medicaid | Yes |
Patients by main condition| Circulatory or heart disease | 71% |
Where care was provided (% of days of care)| Home | 100% |
| Assisted living facility | 0% |
| Nursing facility | 0% |
| Skilled nursing facility | 0% |
| Inpatient hospital | 0% |
| Inpatient hospice facility | 0% |
| Other locations | 0% |
Services Provided by Ensure Hospice, Inc:
Hospices provide various services either through their own staff or through third-party arrangements. Find the list of services provided by Ensure Hospice, Inc below:
- By staff
- Home Health Aide Service
- Counseling Service
- Medical Social Service
- Nursing Service
- Other Services
- Under Arrangement
- Medical Supply Service
- Occupational Therapy
- Physician Service
- Physical Therapy
- Short Term Inpatient care
- Speech Pathology
- Combination of Staff and Under Arrangement
- Type of Short Term Inpatient Care
Number of Full-time equivalent Employees:
Number of full time equivalent employees at Ensure Hospice, Inc
| Home Health Aides | 0.1 |
| Counselors | 0.1 |
| Medical Social Workers | 0.1 |
| Registered Nurses | 1 |
| Total Employees | 1.3 |
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Number of Full-time equivalent Volunteers:
| Others | 0.1 |
| Total Volunteers | 0.1 |
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Certification Details for Ensure Hospice, Inc:
- October, 2021 is the initial visit of the health survey for certifications by CMS.
- It is not eligible to participate in the medicare and/or medicaid program.
- Current status is Voluntary Merger/Closure.
- This hospice was terminated on April, 2026.
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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 patient's 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 lives 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 required for continued hospice care.