About Find That Hospice

I’m a CNA — a certified nursing assistant. I work the floor of a care facility: the call lights, the transfers, the 2am rounds. When a doctor says “it may be time to think about hospice,” the family is usually in the hardest week of their life, handed a list of names, and asked to choose — with no way to tell one from another.

The government actually publishes real data about every Medicare-certified hospice in the country — what surveyed families said about the care, and clinical quality measures like whether the team screened for pain and showed up in the last days of life. But it’s scattered across datasets and written like a tax form. Medicare’s own site is hard to use on a phone in a hospital hallway, which is where this decision usually happens.

So this site does one thing: every fact, straight from the official CMS data, in plain English, with a calm explanation of what each number means — which ones matter most, why hospice has no overall quality star, and what to ask before you choose a hospice for someone you love.

What you won’t find here:opinions about specific hospices. The data speaks; we translate the language, not the judgment. You also won’t find ads, affiliate links, lead-generation forms, or “sponsored” placements — the sites that rank providers while taking referral fees from them have a conflict of interest this site exists to avoid.