Hands of Grace Hospice is a medicare-certified hospice facility in Augusta, Georgia. It is a for-profit hospice and is a freestanding hospice. It is located at 119 Davis Road Suite 11a in Augusta, Georgia. You can reach out to the office of Hands of Grace Hospice via phone at
(706) 229-8786. Hands of Grace Hospice was first approved in February, 2019 to provide medicare and/or medicaid services and its CMS certification number (CCN) is 851507. Atlanta is the CMS Regional Office responsible for the certification of this hospice.
Hospice Profile
| Name | Hands of Grace Hospice |
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| Location | 119 Davis Road Suite 11a, Augusta, Georgia |
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| Hospice ID | 851507 |
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| Category | Freestanding Hospice |
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| Ownership Type | Proprietary - Individual |
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| Profit Type | For Profit |
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| SSA county code | 310 |
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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 Hands of Grace Hospice in Medicare enrollment records;
Possible ones were matched in NPPES by name, address or phone number, so please use them accordingly.
| NPI Number | 1073028171 |
| Match | Confirmed listed in Medicare enrollment records |
| Organization Name | Hands of Grace Hospice, LLC |
| Address | 119 Davis Rd Ste 11ab, Augusta, Georgia 30907 |
| Phone Number | (706)229-8786 |
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. Hands of Grace Hospice has a Hospice Care Index score of
4 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) | 94.6% | 52.4% |
| Patients discharged alive within 7 days of starting hospice (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 5.9% | 7.3% |
| Patients discharged alive after 180 days or more of hospice care (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 58.8% | 37.4% |
| Discharged alive, hospitalized within 2 days, then back in hospice (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 0% | 8.5% |
| Discharged alive, hospitalized within 2 days and died in the hospital (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 5.9% | 2.1% |
| Medicare spending per patient (lower is better) | $25,580 | $19,227 |
| Minutes of skilled nursing care per routine home care day (higher is better) | 7.4 | 19.9 |
| Skilled nursing care given on weekends (% of skilled nursing minutes) (higher is better) | 1.9% | 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) | 62.5% | 89.3% |
Based on Medicare claims from January 2023 to December 2024.
Patients Served by Hands of Grace Hospice:
| Average number of patients per day | 11 |
| 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 |
Where care was provided (% of days of care)| Home | 87% |
| Assisted living facility | 13% |
| Nursing facility | 0% |
| Inpatient hospital | 0% |
| Inpatient hospice facility | 0% |
| Other locations | 0% |
Services Provided by Hands of Grace Hospice:
Hospices provide various services either through their own staff or through third-party arrangements. Find the list of services provided by Hands of Grace Hospice below:
- By staff
- Home Health Aide Service
- Counseling Service
- Medical Social 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 Hands of Grace Hospice
| Home Health Aides | 1 |
| Counselors | 1 |
| Medical Social Workers | 1 |
| Physicians | 1 |
| Registered Nurses | 2 |
| Other Personnel | 3 |
| Total Employees | 9 |
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Certification Details for Hands of Grace Hospice:
- March, 2022 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 in compliance with CMS program requirements based on an acceptable plan for correction of deficiencies.
- It is eligible to participate in the medicare and/or medicaid program.
- Current status is Active.
- End of fiscal year is on September 30.
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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.