Comfort Hospice Care
Medicare-certified hospice in Encino, CA
Medicare-certified
Public-record details
- Address
- 6435 Balboa Blvd Suite 168, Encino, CA 91316
- Phone
- (818) 232-7977
- Listed under
- Offers higher levels of care, Serves nursing home residents, Serves assisted living residents, Experienced with dementia
- Medicare CCN
- 921689
- Ownership
- For-profit
- Medicare-certified since
- Jul 7, 2017
- Hospice Care Index
- 9 of 10
- Average patients per day
- 140
- Levels of care
- Routine home care and at least one higher level (continuous home care, inpatient or respite)
- County
- Los Angeles
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) | 90.05% |
| Patients visited by a registered nurse or social worker on at least 2 of their last 3 days of life | 3.5% |
| Medicare spending per patient | $25,377 |
Who this hospice serves
Where care was provided (share of care days)
| Private homes | 76% |
| Assisted living | 20% |
| Skilled nursing facilities | 5% |
Patients' main diagnoses
| Cancer | 14% |
| Dementia | 43% |
| Heart and circulatory disease | 23% |
| Respiratory disease | 6% |
| Stroke | 8% |
| Other conditions | 7% |
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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