Hospicio Las Brisas
Medicare-certified hospice in Vega Alta, PR
Medicare-certified72% would definitely recommend
Public-record details
- Address
- Calle Luis Muñoz Rivera #1 Altos, Vega Alta, Pr, Po Box 459 Vega Alta Pr 00692, Vega Alta, PR 00692
- Phone
- (787) 270-4838
- Listed under
- Experienced with dementia
- Medicare CCN
- 401565
- Ownership
- For-profit
- Medicare-certified since
- Sep 23, 2003
- Families who would definitely recommend
- 72%
- Families rating the hospice 9 or 10
- 68%
- Hospice Care Index
- 9 of 10
- Average patients per day
- 43
- Levels of care
- Routine home care only
- County
- Vega Alta
What families said
From the CAHPS Hospice Survey, sent by CMS-approved vendors to family caregivers after a patient's death (Oct 2023–Sep 2025). Share of families answering the most positive way:
| Communicated well with the family | 74% |
| Provided timely help | 74% |
| Treated the patient with respect | 78% |
| Gave the right emotional and spiritual support | 71% |
| Helped with pain and symptoms | 77% |
| Would definitely recommend (family) | 72% |
| Rated the hospice 9 or 10 out of 10 | 68% |
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) | 96.21% |
| Patients visited by a registered nurse or social worker on at least 2 of their last 3 days of life | 68.7% |
| Medicare spending per patient | $5,547 |
Who this hospice serves
Where care was provided (share of care days)
| Private homes | 79% |
Patients' main diagnoses
| Cancer | 30% |
| Dementia | 31% |
| Heart and circulatory disease | 13% |
| Respiratory disease | 5% |
| 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.