Caris Healthcare
Medicare-certified hospice in Ringgold, GA
Medicare-certified
Public-record details
- Address
- 127 Battlefield Crosssing Court, Suite 127, Ringgold, GA 30736
- Phone
- (706) 944-9110
- Listed under
- Offers higher levels of care, Serves nursing home residents, Experienced with dementia
- Medicare CCN
- 111777
- Ownership
- Other
- Medicare-certified since
- May 25, 2016
- Hospice Care Index
- 8 of 10
- Average patients per day
- 28
- Levels of care
- Routine home care and at least one higher level (continuous home care, inpatient or respite)
- County
- Catoosa
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) | 8 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 | 63.7% |
| Medicare spending per patient | $23,371 |
Who this hospice serves
Where care was provided (share of care days)
| Private homes | 28% |
| Assisted living | 1% |
| Nursing facilities | 71% |
Patients' main diagnoses
| Dementia | 36% |
| Heart and circulatory disease | 22% |
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.