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Specialized Hospice, LLC

4801 W 110th St, Ste 110, Overland Park, KS 66211 · 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 36 patients a day. 54% of its care was delivered in an assisted-living community. Its Hospice Care Index score is 10 out of 10, against 8.8 nationally.

The seven care processes

MeasureThis hospiceNational
Treatment preferences documented
195 patients
99.49%99.8%about the same
Beliefs and values addressed, when the patient wanted that
195 patients
98.46%99.27%about the same
Screened for pain
195 patients
98.46%99%about the same
Given a full pain assessment
105 patients
99.05%98.27%about the same
Screened for shortness of breath
195 patients
100%99.53%about the same
Treated for shortness of breath
96 patients
94.79%98.59%too few patients to compare
Given a bowel regimen with an opioid
68 patients
91.18%98.46%too few patients to compare
Received all seven care processes
195 patients
91.79%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
41.6%35th percentile
Early live discharges
% of live discharges
10.9%78th percentile
Late live discharges
% of live discharges
26.1%22th percentile
Burdensome transitions, type 1
% of live discharges
13%77th percentile
Burdensome transitions, type 2
% of live discharges
0%45th percentile
Per-patient Medicare spending
$
$14,12029th percentile
Nurse minutes per routine home-care day
min
13.1 min59th percentile
Skilled-nursing minutes on weekends
% of minutes
5.5%20th percentile
Visits near death
% of decedents
91.3%37th 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
Cancer15%
Dementia33%
Circulatory or heart disease23%
Stroke9%
Other conditions18%

Where its care was delivered

SettingPercent of care
In a private home14%
In an assisted-living community54%
In a nursing facility31%
Somewhere else1%

Visits in the last days of life: 69% (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: 12/28/2021

Other Medicare-certified hospices in Overland Park

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 Specialized Hospice, LLC 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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