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Bristol Hospice - Snohomish County

12625 4th Ave W Ste 203a/B, Everett, WA 98204 · 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 14 patients a day. 55% of its care was delivered in an assisted-living community. 76% 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 1071%
Would definitely recommend it76%
The team always treated the patient with respect87%
The patient always got the help they needed for pain and symptoms74%
The team always communicated well68%
The team always provided timely help64%
The team gave the right amount of emotional and spiritual support92%
Rated the hospice 6 or lower6%
Would probably or definitely not recommend it5%

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
167 patients
100%99.8%about the same
Beliefs and values addressed, when the patient wanted that
167 patients
100%99.27%about the same
Screened for pain
167 patients
100%99%about the same
Given a full pain assessment
108 patients
100%98.27%about the same
Screened for shortness of breath
167 patients
100%99.53%about the same
Treated for shortness of breath
103 patients
100%98.59%about the same
Given a bowel regimen with an opioid
58 patients
100%98.46%too few patients to compare
Received all seven care processes
167 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

Main condition of the patients it served

ConditionPercent of patients
Cancer15%
Dementia30%
Stroke25%
Other conditions14%

Where its care was delivered

SettingPercent of care
In a private home45%
In an assisted-living community55%

About this hospice

Medicare-certified since: 10/11/2024

Other Medicare-certified hospices in Washington

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

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 Bristol Hospice - Snohomish County 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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