Hospicio La Providencia
Medicare-certified hospice in Ponce, PR
Medicare-certified
Public-record details
- Address
- 1206 Munoz Rivera Ave, Ponce, PR 00717
- Phone
- (787) 843-2364
- Listed under
- Serves assisted living residents
- Medicare CCN
- 401500
- Ownership
- For-profit
- Medicare-certified since
- Jan 17, 1985
- Hospice Care Index
- 9 of 10
- Average patients per day
- 44
- Levels of care
- Routine home care only
- County
- Ponce
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) | 99.42% |
| Patients visited by a registered nurse or social worker on at least 2 of their last 3 days of life | 37.6% |
| Medicare spending per patient | $6,537 |
Who this hospice serves
Where care was provided (share of care days)
| Private homes | 88% |
| Assisted living | 12% |
Patients' main diagnoses
| Cancer | 29% |
| Dementia | 24% |
| Heart and circulatory disease | 23% |
| Stroke | 8% |
| Other conditions | 13% |
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.