Hospice Specialists of Louisiana
Medicare-certified hospice in Baton Rouge, LA
Medicare-certified
Public-record details
- Address
- 1761 Physician's Park Ave., Ste a, Baton Rouge, LA 70816
- Phone
- (985) 262-7590
- Listed under
- Offers higher levels of care, Serves nursing home residents, Serves assisted living residents, Experienced with dementia
- Medicare CCN
- 191621
- Ownership
- For-profit
- Medicare-certified since
- Mar 9, 2006
- Hospice Care Index
- 8 of 10
- Average patients per day
- 11
- Levels of care
- Routine home care and at least one higher level (continuous home care, inpatient or respite)
- County
- East Baton Rouge
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 | 35.7% |
| Medicare spending per patient | $19,671 |
Who this hospice serves
Where care was provided (share of care days)
| Private homes | 67% |
| Assisted living | 27% |
| Nursing facilities | 7% |
Patients' main diagnoses
| Dementia | 44% |
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.
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