Empath Hospice, LLC
331 S Florida Ave, Lakeland, FL 33801 · Medicare-certified hospice
📞 Call this hospice — (863) 329-2750
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.
The seven care processes
| Measure | This hospice | National | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment preferences documented 33 patients | 96.97% | 99.8% | too few patients to compare |
| Beliefs and values addressed, when the patient wanted that 33 patients | 87.88% | 99.27% | too few patients to compare |
| Screened for pain 33 patients | 100% | 99% | too few patients to compare |
| Screened for shortness of breath 33 patients | 96.97% | 99.53% | too few patients to compare |
| Received all seven care processes 33 patients | 84.85% | 96.15% | too few patients to compare |
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.
About this hospice
Medicare-certified since: 07/23/2024
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Families are usually choosing between several hospices, not evaluating one. Each link opens the same record for that hospice. See all hospices in Florida.
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.