Palomar Health Palliative & Hospice Care
San Marcos, CA
- Visited in last days
- 41%
- Family rating
- 2/5
OtherCertified 2021
(619) 780-5469
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Not graded
We have not graded this hospice. CMS has published no Hospice Care Index, no family caregiver survey and no record of visits in the last days of life for it, usually because it is new, very small, or served too few patients for measures to be reported. We would rather say we do not know than give it a middling grade it has not earned.
- Ownership
- n/a
- Medicare certified
- September 2022
- Patients on any given day
- 3
- CCN
- B41663
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What this costs you
If the patient has Medicare Part A and a doctor certifies a life expectancy of six months or less, the Medicare Hospice Benefit pays this provider directly. The family pays nothing for hospice visits, nursing, medicines related to the terminal illness, or equipment. No hospice may charge you for those and none may ask for a deposit.
Was anyone there at the end?
Hospice is judged on the last few days more than anything else. These are this provider's numbers against the national average.
Admissions that got the full set of screenings, pain, breathlessness, treatment wishes, beliefs85%
National average 92%Below average
Where they provide care
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In their own home 67%
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In a skilled nursing facility 22%
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In an assisted living facility 11%
Other hospices nearby
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Questions families ask about Alternative Hospice Care Inc.
- Does Alternative Hospice Care Inc. cost anything?
- No. If the patient has Medicare Part A and a doctor certifies a life expectancy of six months or less, the Medicare Hospice Benefit pays Alternative Hospice Care Inc. directly for visits, nursing, equipment and medicines related to the terminal illness. The family is not billed for those and no hospice may ask for a deposit.
- Where does Alternative Hospice Care Inc. provide care?
- Most of this hospice's care is delivered in their own home, 67% of its patients. Hospice is a service rather than a place, so the team travels to wherever the patient is living.
Source: CMS Hospice Provider Data (10/01/2024 - 09/30/2025) and the CAHPS Hospice Survey (10/01/2023-09/30/2025), published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. ElderGrade takes no payment from hospices, chains or placement agencies, and holds no photographs of this provider. Graded 3 November 2026. How we source our data.