Hospice And Home Healthcare Of Saunders County
141 East 5Th Street -, Wahoo, NE 68066
(402) 443-4798Above average
74 / 100
- Ownership
- For-Profit
- Medicare certified
- April 2005
- Patients on any given day
- 15
- CCN
- 281537
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What to ask about before you visit
These are findings in the public CMS record for this hospice. They are not our opinion, each one comes straight from the federal hospice quality file or the CMS family caregiver survey.
Patients are sent to hospital and dropped from care more often than usual
29% of live discharges here were a hospital admission followed by the hospice ending care. CMS calls this a burdensome transition.
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. Medicare paid this provider an average of $10,233 per patient over the measurement period. That is what the federal government spent, not what a family pays, we publish it because it is the number the provider is paid on.
How we graded it
Our method-
Family caregiver experience
21.25 / 30
What bereaved family caregivers said about the hospice afterwards, in the CMS-run CAHPS Hospice Survey.
- 89% of families would definitely recommend it (national median 86%)
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Presence at the end
20 / 25
Whether a nurse or social worker was actually there in the final days, which is the single thing families remember.
- 74% of patients had a nurse or social worker visit in their last three days (national median 61%)
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Nursing presence
13 / 20
How much registered-nurse time patients get, and how often visits lapse for days at a time.
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Discharge integrity
9.75 / 15
How often patients are signed off hospice alive, the pattern that shows up when a provider enrols people who were never dying, or drops people who become expensive.
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Care process
10 / 10
Whether the basics were done at admission: pain screened, breathlessness treated, treatment preferences and beliefs asked about.
- 100% of admissions got the full set of screenings (national median 96.5%)
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.
What bereaved families said
CMS has not published survey results for this hospice. It only reports them once enough family caregivers have completed the questionnaire, so smaller providers often have none. That is a gap in the data, not a mark against the provider, ask them directly whether they run their own bereavement survey and what it showed.
Where they provide care
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In a nursing facility 69%
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In their own home 30%
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In an assisted living facility 1%
Who they care for
Main diagnosis of their patients.
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Dementia 37%
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Heart and circulatory disease 18%
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Cancer 16%
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Other conditions 13%
Questions families ask about Hospice And Home Healthcare Of Saunders County
- Does Hospice And Home Healthcare Of Saunders County 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 Hospice And Home Healthcare Of Saunders County 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.
- How often does Hospice And Home Healthcare Of Saunders County visit patients in their final days?
- CMS records that 74% of this hospice's patients were visited by a registered nurse or social worker in the last three days of life, against a national average of 56%.
- What do families say about Hospice And Home Healthcare Of Saunders County?
- In the CMS-run survey of bereaved family caregivers, results were published and 89% of families said they would definitely recommend it. The survey is sent by CMS, not by the hospice, and the hospice cannot choose who is asked.
- How is Hospice And Home Healthcare Of Saunders County graded?
- ElderGrade grades it B, above average, scoring 74 out of 100 on the federal hospice record: what bereaved families reported, visits in the last days of life, nurse time per home care day, live-discharge patterns and admission screenings. We take no payment from hospices.
- Where does Hospice And Home Healthcare Of Saunders County provide care?
- Most of this hospice's care is delivered in a nursing facility, 69% 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.