Essential Care Group, Inc is a medicare-certified hospice facility in South El Monte, California. It is a for-profit hospice and is a freestanding hospice. It is located at 1170 Durfee Ave Suite K in South El Monte, California. You can reach out to the office of Essential Care Group, Inc via phone at
(818) 561-4705. Essential Care Group, Inc was first approved in June, 2017 to provide medicare and/or medicaid services and its CMS certification number (CCN) is 921642. San Francisco is the CMS Regional Office responsible for the certification of this hospice.
Hospice Profile
| Name | Essential Care Group, Inc |
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| Location | 1170 Durfee Ave Suite K, South El Monte, California |
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| Hospice ID | 921642 |
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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 | The Joint Commission (TJC) |
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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 Essential Care Group, Inc in Medicare enrollment records;
Possible ones were matched in NPPES by name, address or phone number, so please use them accordingly.
| NPI Number | 1134534902 |
| Match | Possible same name, address or phone number |
| Organization Name | Essential Care Group, Inc. |
| Address | 224 E Olive Ave, Burbank, California 91502 |
| Phone Number | (818)561-4705 |
| NPI Number | 1477979805 |
| Match | Possible same name, address or phone number |
| Organization Name | Colonial Hospice Care, Inc. |
| Address | 224 E Olive Ave, Burbank, California 91502 |
| Phone Number | (818)861-7671 |
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. Essential Care Group, Inc has a Hospice Care Index score of
8 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) | 0.2% | 0.5% |
| Hospice stays with a gap of more than 7 days between skilled nursing visits (% of stays) (lower is better) | 82.8% | 52.4% |
| Patients discharged alive within 7 days of starting hospice (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 20% | 7.3% |
| Patients discharged alive after 180 days or more of hospice care (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 20% | 37.4% |
| Discharged alive, hospitalized within 2 days, then back in hospice (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 10% | 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) | $40,381 | $19,227 |
| Minutes of skilled nursing care per routine home care day (higher is better) | 11.7 | 19.9 |
| Skilled nursing care given on weekends (% of skilled nursing minutes) (higher is better) | 11.2% | 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) | 95.8% | 89.3% |
Based on Medicare claims from January 2023 to December 2024.
Patients Served by Essential Care Group, Inc:
| Average number of patients per day | 12 |
| 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 conditionWhere 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 Essential Care Group, Inc:
Hospices provide various services either through their own staff or through third-party arrangements. Find the list of services provided by Essential Care Group, Inc below:
- By staff
- Home Health Aide Service
- Counseling Service
- Home Maker Service
- Medical Social Service
- Nursing Service
- Physician Service
- Under Arrangement
- Medical Supply Service
- Occupational Therapy
- 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 Essential Care Group, Inc
| Home Health Aides | 1 |
| Counselors | 1 |
| Homemakers | 1 |
| Licensed Practical or Vocational Nurses | 1 |
| Medical Social Workers | 1 |
| Physicians | 1 |
| Registered Nurses | 2 |
| Other Personnel | 2 |
| Total Employees | 10 |
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Number of Full-time equivalent Volunteers:
Certification Details for Essential Care Group, Inc:
- June, 2017 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.
- This hospice was terminated on April, 2026.
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.