St. Croix Hospice
13911 Ridgedale Drive, Ste 190, Hopkins, MN 55305 · Medicare-certified hospice
📞 Call this hospice — (952) 746-9649
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 3 patients a day. 44% of its care was delivered in a private home. 86% of surveyed families said they would definitely recommend it.
What families said (CAHPS Hospice survey)
| Measure | Percent of families | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rated the hospice 9 or 10 out of 10 | 82% | ||
| Would definitely recommend it | 86% | ||
| The team always treated the patient with respect | 89% | ||
| The patient always got the help they needed for pain and symptoms | 65% | ||
| The team always communicated well | 73% | ||
| The team always provided timely help | 67% | ||
| The team gave the right amount of emotional and spiritual support | 98% | ||
| Rated the hospice 6 or lower | 8% | ||
| Would probably or definitely not recommend it | 6% |
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
| Measure | This hospice | National | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment preferences documented 205 patients | 100% | 99.8% | about the same |
| Beliefs and values addressed, when the patient wanted that 205 patients | 100% | 99.27% | about the same |
| Screened for pain 205 patients | 100% | 99% | about the same |
| Given a full pain assessment 112 patients | 100% | 98.27% | about the same |
| Screened for shortness of breath 205 patients | 100% | 99.53% | about the same |
| Treated for shortness of breath 101 patients | 100% | 98.59% | about the same |
| Given a bowel regimen with an opioid 42 patients | 100% | 98.46% | too few patients to compare |
| Received all seven care processes 205 patients | 100% | 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.
Who this hospice cared for, and where
Where its care was delivered
| Setting | Percent of care | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| In a private home | 44% | ||
| In an assisted-living community | 28% | ||
| In a nursing facility | 28% |
About this hospice
Medicare-certified since: 08/07/2024
Other Medicare-certified hospices in Minnesota
- Avera At Home Southwest Minnesota Marshall, MN 5 of 5
- Centracare Hospice Waite Park, MN 5 of 5
- Winona Area Hospice Services Winona, MN 4 of 5
- Allina Health Hospice & Palliative Care Minneapolis, MN 3 of 5
- Brighton Hospice Saint Louis Park, MN 3 of 5
- Ecumen Hospice Shoreview, MN 3 of 5
- Good Samaritan Society Hospice Nisswa, MN 3 of 5
- Healthpartners Hospice And Palliative Care Bloomington, MN 3 of 5
Families are usually choosing between several hospices, not evaluating one. Each link opens the same record for that hospice. See all hospices in Minnesota.
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.