Graceful Palms Hospice And Palliative Care Corp.
38700 5th St W Ste G, Palmdale, CA 93551 · Medicare-certified hospice
📞 Call this hospice — (661) 538-1435
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 37 patients a day. 96% of its care was delivered in a private home. Its Hospice Care Index score is 10 out of 10, against 8.8 nationally.
The seven care processes
| Measure | This hospice | National | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment preferences documented 152 patients | 100% | 99.8% | about the same |
| Beliefs and values addressed, when the patient wanted that 152 patients | 100% | 99.27% | about the same |
| Screened for pain 152 patients | 100% | 99% | about the same |
| Given a full pain assessment 105 patients | 93.33% | 98.27% | about the same |
| Screened for shortness of breath 152 patients | 100% | 99.53% | about the same |
| Treated for shortness of breath 117 patients | 90.6% | 98.59% | about the same |
| Given a bowel regimen with an opioid 38 patients | 55.26% | 98.46% | too few patients to compare |
| Received all seven care processes 152 patients | 78.95% | 96.15% | worse |
Medicare checks seven things every hospice should do when a patient is admitted. Nearly every hospice scores in the nineties, so a few points below the national figure is a real gap rather than a rounding difference. “Better” and “worse” here mean this provider differs from the national figure by more than 10% of it and by more than half a percentage point; anything closer reads “about the same”. That second test matters on the rare-event rows — a national rate of 0.2% would otherwise make almost any provider look remarkable. CMS does not publish a significance test for these measures, so where fewer than 100 patients sit behind a rate — or where the national rate is low enough that a handful of events would swing it — we print both numbers and decline to grade, rather than call a named provider worse than average on the strength of three patients.
Hospice Care Index
| Indicator | This hospice | Percentile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous or inpatient care provided % of days | 0.6% | 85th percentile | |
| Gaps in nursing visits % of elections | 75.7% | 82th percentile | |
| Early live discharges % of live discharges | 10.9% | 78th percentile | |
| Late live discharges % of live discharges | 42.2% | 65th percentile | |
| Burdensome transitions, type 1 % of live discharges | 12.5% | 76th percentile | |
| Burdensome transitions, type 2 % of live discharges | 4.7% | 87th percentile | |
| Per-patient Medicare spending $ | $24,987 | 82th percentile | |
| Nurse minutes per routine home-care day min | 235.6 min | 100th percentile | |
| Skilled-nursing minutes on weekends % of minutes | 94.2% | 100th percentile | |
| Visits near death % of decedents | 81.3% | 15th 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer | 62% | ||
| Dementia | 18% | ||
| Circulatory or heart disease | 9% |
Where its care was delivered
| Setting | Percent of care | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| In a private home | 96% | ||
| In an assisted-living community | 4% |
Visits in the last days of life: 12.4% (national: 48.3%) — how often a nurse or social worker visited in the final three days.
About this hospice
Ownership: For-Profit
Medicare-certified since: 12/30/2011
Other Medicare-certified hospices in Palmdale
- Alden Hospice Palmdale, CA
- Ensure Hospice, INC Palmdale, CA
- Heavenly Hospice Care, INC Palmdale, CA
- My Choice Hospice INC Palmdale, CA
- St Sofia Palliative And Hospice Care, Inc. Palmdale, CA
- The 7 C's Hospice, INC Palmdale, CA
- Well Care Hospice INC Palmdale, 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.
View Graceful Palms Hospice And Palliative Care Corp. on Medicare Care Compare ↗
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.