Encore Hospice, Inc.
271 West Alameda Ave, Burbank, CA 91502 · Medicare-certified hospice
📞 Call this hospice — (818) 455-8880
CMS has not published a star rating for this provider yet. That usually means too few completed surveys to publish one — often a smaller or newer provider — not that quality is average or poor. It is a gap in the data, not a verdict. The full record is on Care Compare below.
This hospice cared for an average of 11 patients a day. 89% of its care was delivered in a private home. Its Hospice Care Index score is 7 out of 10, against 8.8 nationally.
Hospice Care Index
| Indicator | This hospice | Percentile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous or inpatient care provided % of days | 0.6% | 85th percentile | |
| Gaps in nursing visits % of elections | 46.9% | 42th percentile | |
| Early live discharges % of live discharges | 3.7% | 31th percentile | |
| Late live discharges % of live discharges | 51.9% | 85th percentile | |
| Burdensome transitions, type 1 % of live discharges | 0% | 19th percentile | |
| Burdensome transitions, type 2 % of live discharges | 14.8% | 100th percentile | |
| Per-patient Medicare spending $ | $45,836 | 99th percentile | |
| Nurse minutes per routine home-care day min | 15.2 min | 77th percentile | |
| Skilled-nursing minutes on weekends % of minutes | 10.3% | 71th percentile | |
| Visits near death % of decedents | 28.6% | 2th percentile |
The Care Index is ten separate checks on how a hospice actually operates — whether nurses visit near the end, whether patients are discharged alive unusually often, how much care is delivered at weekends. The score is how many of the ten it passes. The percentile says where this hospice sits among all hospices on that row, and for rows where a lower number is better a low percentile is the good end.
Who this hospice cared for, and where
Main condition of the patients it served
| Condition | Percent of patients | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Dementia | 59% | ||
| Circulatory or heart disease | 26% |
Where its care was delivered
| Setting | Percent of care | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| In a private home | 89% | ||
| In an assisted-living community | 7% | ||
| In a skilled-nursing facility | 4% |
About this hospice
Ownership: For-Profit
Medicare-certified since: 05/03/2013
Other Medicare-certified hospices in Burbank
- A & E Hospice Care, Inc. Burbank, CA
- A And S Hospice Palliative Care, Inc. Burbank, CA
- Life Bridge Hospice Care, INC Burbank, CA
- Life To Life Hospice Care, Inc. Burbank, CA
- Light Beam Hospice, INC Burbank, CA
- Llg Hospice, INC Burbank, CA
- Mar Vista Hospice Burbank, CA
- Md 1st Choice Hospice, Inc. Burbank, CA
Families are usually choosing between several hospices, not evaluating one. Each link opens the same record for that hospice. See all hospices in California.
What this rating measures
This star reflects the family caregiver survey (CAHPS Hospice) — how families rate the hospice’s communication, timeliness, help with symptoms, and emotional support. Learn more in our guides to hospice vs. palliative care and hospice and end-of-life care — the second explains the four levels of care Medicare covers (including continuous home care during a crisis and inpatient care), which families are routinely never told about.
Full quality record
The complete, current CMS record for this provider — every quality measure and patient-experience result — lives on Medicare’s official Care Compare tool. We link straight to it rather than repackaging a stale copy.
Certification, contact details, and star rating from the CMS Care Compare dataset (public domain), retrieved 2026-07-17. Quality measures from the CMS hospice public reporting file, August 2026 release. Care Compare is the authoritative source for the full quality record and for the provider’s current phone number.