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Angels Care Hospice

8200 East 34th Street, Circle North Building #1800, Wichita, KS 67206 · Medicare-certified hospice

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 40 patients a day. 64% of its care was delivered in a private home. Its Hospice Care Index score is 10 out of 10, against 8.8 nationally. 80% of surveyed families said they would definitely recommend it.

What families said (CAHPS Hospice survey)

MeasurePercent of families
Rated the hospice 9 or 10 out of 1081%
Would definitely recommend it80%
The team always treated the patient with respect86%
The patient always got the help they needed for pain and symptoms76%
The team always communicated well84%
The team always provided timely help84%
The team gave the right amount of emotional and spiritual support89%
Rated the hospice 6 or lower9%
Would probably or definitely not recommend it7%

Asked of bereaved family caregivers several months after the death. The last rows are the least favourable answers — shown because a page that prints only the good ones is an advertisement.

The seven care processes

MeasureThis hospiceNational
Treatment preferences documented
112 patients
100%99.8%about the same
Beliefs and values addressed, when the patient wanted that
112 patients
98.21%99.27%about the same
Screened for pain
112 patients
96.43%99%about the same
Given a full pain assessment
79 patients
100%98.27%too few patients to compare
Screened for shortness of breath
112 patients
98.21%99.53%about the same
Treated for shortness of breath
59 patients
98.31%98.59%too few patients to compare
Given a bowel regimen with an opioid
38 patients
100%98.46%too few patients to compare
Received all seven care processes
112 patients
93.75%96.15%about the same

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

10/10
Hospice Care Index
IndicatorThis hospicePercentile
Continuous or inpatient care provided
% of days
0%52th percentile
Gaps in nursing visits
% of elections
34.8%27th percentile
Early live discharges
% of live discharges
0%19th percentile
Late live discharges
% of live discharges
23.2%17th percentile
Burdensome transitions, type 1
% of live discharges
5.4%40th percentile
Burdensome transitions, type 2
% of live discharges
1.8%60th percentile
Per-patient Medicare spending
$
$18,89755th percentile
Nurse minutes per routine home-care day
min
15.6 min80th percentile
Skilled-nursing minutes on weekends
% of minutes
6%26th percentile
Visits near death
% of decedents
91.7%39th 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

ConditionPercent of patients
Cancer17%
Dementia30%
Circulatory or heart disease30%
Respiratory disease17%

Where its care was delivered

SettingPercent of care
In a private home64%
In an assisted-living community20%
In a nursing facility6%
In a skilled-nursing facility7%
Somewhere else3%

Visits in the last days of life: 60.2% (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: 07/29/2016

Other Medicare-certified hospices in Wichita

Families are usually choosing between several hospices, not evaluating one. Each link opens the same record for that hospice. See all hospices in Kansas.

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 Angels Care Hospice 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.

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