Lighthouse Hospice & Palliative Care Services is a medicare-certified hospice facility in West Covina, California. It is a for-profit hospice and is a freestanding hospice. It is located at 640 South Sunset Ave, Suite 202 in West Covina, California. You can reach out to the office of Lighthouse Hospice & Palliative Care Services via phone at
(626) 480-8000. Lighthouse Hospice & Palliative Care Services was first approved in October, 2019 to provide medicare and/or medicaid services and its CMS certification number (CCN) is A01698. San Francisco is the CMS Regional Office responsible for the certification of this hospice.
Hospice Profile
| Name | Lighthouse Hospice & Palliative Care Services |
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| Location | 640 South Sunset Ave, Suite 202, West Covina, California |
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| Hospice ID | A01698 |
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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 Lighthouse Hospice & Palliative Care Services in Medicare enrollment records;
Possible ones were matched in NPPES by name, address or phone number, so please use them accordingly.
| NPI Number | 1578066890 |
| Match | Possible same name, address or phone number |
| Organization Name | Nexus Legacy, Inc. |
| Address | 640 S Sunset Ave Ste 202, West Covina, California 91790 |
| Phone Number | (626)480-8000 |
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. Lighthouse Hospice & Palliative Care Services 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) | 0.9% | 0.5% |
| Hospice stays with a gap of more than 7 days between skilled nursing visits (% of stays) (lower is better) | 81% | 52.4% |
| Patients discharged alive within 7 days of starting hospice (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 12.5% | 7.3% |
| Patients discharged alive after 180 days or more of hospice care (% of live discharges) (lower is better) | 62.5% | 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) | 0% | 2.1% |
| Medicare spending per patient (lower is better) | $17,009 | $19,227 |
| Minutes of skilled nursing care per routine home care day (higher is better) | 10.6 | 19.9 |
| Skilled nursing care given on weekends (% of skilled nursing minutes) (higher is better) | 14.7% | 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) | 81.8% | 89.3% |
Based on Medicare claims from January 2023 to December 2024.
Patients Served by Lighthouse Hospice & Palliative Care Services:
| Average number of patients per day | 4 |
| Levels of care provided | Routine home care and other levels of care |
| Served patients with Medicare Advantage | Yes |
Where care was provided (% of days of care)| Home | 80% |
| Assisted living facility | 20% |
| Nursing facility | 0% |
| Skilled nursing facility | 0% |
| Inpatient hospital | 0% |
| Inpatient hospice facility | 0% |
| Other locations | 0% |
Services Provided by Lighthouse Hospice & Palliative Care Services:
Hospices provide various services either through their own staff or through third-party arrangements. Find the list of services provided by Lighthouse Hospice & Palliative Care Services below:
- By staff
- Home Health Aide Service
- Counseling Service
- Home Maker Service
- Nursing Service
- 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 Lighthouse Hospice & Palliative Care Services
| Home Health Aides | 2 |
| Counselors | 1 |
| Homemakers | 1 |
| Licensed Practical or Vocational Nurses | 3 |
| Medical Social Workers | 2 |
| Physicians | 2 |
| Registered Nurses | 4 |
| Total Employees | 15 |
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Number of Full-time equivalent Volunteers:
| Counselors | 2 |
| Licensed Practical or Vocational Nurses | 1 |
| Registered Nurses | 2 |
| Others | 5 |
| Total Volunteers | 10 |
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Certification Details for Lighthouse Hospice & Palliative Care Services:
- October, 2019 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.
- Number assigned to the hospice by the state Medicaid agency for external control or billing purposes is 1578066890.
- This hospice was terminated on January, 2026.
Other Hospices in West Covina, CA
Accord Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc.
Location: 2934 East Garvey Ave S, Suite 212, West Covina, California, 91791
Phone: (626) 339-3060 |
Blue Spirit Hospice, Inc
Location: 1433 W Merced Ave Unit 220, West Covina, California, 91790
Phone: (323) 468-4604 |
Caring Hands Hospice Care, Inc.
Location: 818 W Cameron Ave, West Covina, California, 91790 |
D' Alexandria Hospice Inc
Location: 1535 West Merced Ave Suite 300, West Covina, California, 91790
Phone: (909) 475-0808 |
Eternally Yours Hospice, Inc.
Location: 2550 East Amar Rd Ste A1-g, West Covina, California, 91792
Phone: (626) 965-4200 |
Madison Hospice, Inc.
Location: 1619 W Garvey Ave N Suite 107, West Covina, California, 91790
Phone: (818) 435-7800 |
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.