Above average
81 / 100
- Ownership
- For-Profit
- Medicare certified
- September 2021
- Patients on any given day
- 44
- CCN
- 151639
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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.
20% of live discharges happened soon after admission
A high early live-discharge rate can mean patients are being enrolled who were not eligible for hospice. Ask what happens to your Medicare hospice benefit if you are discharged.
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 $13,181 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
28.5 / 30
What bereaved family caregivers said about the hospice afterwards, in the CMS-run CAHPS Hospice Survey.
- 5 of 5 stars from family caregivers
- 90% 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.
- 77% 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
From the CAHPS Hospice Survey, which CMS sends to family caregivers a few months after the death. These are not online reviews and the hospice cannot select who is asked. Percentages are the share who gave the best possible answer.
Where they provide care
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In a nursing facility 64%
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In their own home 18%
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In an assisted living facility 18%
Who they care for
Main diagnosis of their patients.
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Heart and circulatory disease 31%
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Dementia 19%
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Other conditions 19%
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Stroke 15%
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Respiratory disease 10%
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Cancer 7%
Questions families ask about St. Croix Hospice
- Does St. Croix Hospice 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 St. Croix Hospice 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 St. Croix Hospice visit patients in their final days?
- CMS records that 77% 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 St. Croix Hospice?
- In the CMS-run survey of bereaved family caregivers, this hospice scored 5 out of 5 stars overall and 90% 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 St. Croix Hospice graded?
- ElderGrade grades it B, above average, scoring 81 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 St. Croix Hospice provide care?
- Most of this hospice's care is delivered in a nursing facility, 64% 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.