Aveanna Hospice of Gadsden
Medicare-certified hospice in Gadsden, AL
Medicare-certified
Public-record details
- Address
- 600 Broad Street, Suite 301, Gadsden, AL 35901
- Phone
- (256) 547-3050
- Listed under
- Offers higher levels of care, Serves nursing home residents
- Medicare CCN
- 011668
- Ownership
- For-profit
- Medicare-certified since
- Feb 21, 2008
- Hospice Care Index
- 9 of 10
- Average patients per day
- 42
- Levels of care
- Routine home care and at least one higher level (continuous home care, inpatient or respite)
- County
- Etowah
What families said
CMS has not published family survey scores for this hospice — usually because it is new or served too few patients for the survey to be reported. That is not a mark against it; ask the hospice how families rate its care.
Quality measures
| Hospice Care Index (0–10, higher is better) | 9 of 10 |
| Patients who got all 7 recommended care processes at admission (comprehensive assessment) | 100% |
| Patients visited by a registered nurse or social worker on at least 2 of their last 3 days of life | 61.8% |
| Medicare spending per patient | $20,851 |
Who this hospice serves
Where care was provided (share of care days)
| Private homes | 81% |
| Skilled nursing facilities | 18% |
Patients' main diagnoses
| Cancer | 23% |
| Dementia | 20% |
| Heart and circulatory disease | 26% |
| Respiratory disease | 20% |
| Other conditions | 11% |
Family survey scores cover families of patients who died under this hospice's care, collected by CMS-approved survey vendors. A missing score usually means the hospice is new or small, not that it is poor. You can switch hospices once per benefit period — see Medicare.gov.