Hospicare & Palliative Care Services

CCN

331512The number CMS certifies the facility under, not a provider identifier

Status

Active

Provider type

Hospice

Ownership

Non-Profit

Control type

Non-Profit - Church

Participating since

Sep 4, 1985

Last certification

Mar 9, 2020

Address

172 East King Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 272-0212

• Hospicare and Palliative Care Services of Tompkins County, Inc.

  • Community Based Hospice Care Agency
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1730185737
  Medicare enrollment

• Caregivers rated the hospice agency a 9 or 10 87
  • State average 85
  • National average 83
  • Period from 10/01/2023-09/30/2025
• The hospice team always communicated well 84
  • State average 85
  • National average 82
  • Period from 10/01/2023-09/30/2025
• The hospice team always provided timely help 78
  • State average 80
  • National average 78
  • Period from 10/01/2023-09/30/2025
• The hospice team always treated the patient with respect 94
  • State average 93
  • National average 91
  • Period from 10/01/2023-09/30/2025
• The hospice team provided the right amount of emotional and spiritual support 93
  • State average 92
  • National average 91
  • Period from 10/01/2023-09/30/2025
• The patient always got the help they needed for pain and symptoms 76
  • State average 79
  • National average 76
  • Period from 10/01/2023-09/30/2025
• YES, they would definitely recommend the hospice 92
  • State average 89
  • National average 85
  • Period from 10/01/2023-09/30/2025

Clinicians who list this facility as a hospital or facility affiliation in Care Compare.

• Nisha Elizabeth Ajit, MBBS

  • Hematology & Oncology Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1982023784
• Anurag Aryal, MD

  • Internal Medicine Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1699399873
• Timothy Eric Bael, M.D.

  • Hematology & Oncology Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1376605501
• Alina Basnet, MD

  • Hematology (Internal Medicine) Physician
  • Syracuse, NY
  • NPI 1871914465
• Mashhood Ahmad Bodla, MBBS

  • Internal Medicine Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1669092805
• Ann R Costello, MD

  • Internal Medicine Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1235125626
• Lynn Marie Cunningham, MD

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Cortland, NY
  • NPI 1023092160
• Elizabeth Anne Davenport, M.D.

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Cortland, NY
  • NPI 1073141859
• Hilary Kristina Dietz, MD

  • Medical Oncology Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1669902862
• Sujithraj Dommaraju, MD

  • Internal Medicine Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1497310031
• Samuel Edwin Donovan

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Pawtucket, RI
  • NPI 1215433230
• Cinthia Lisa Elkins, MD, PHD

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Homer, NY
  • NPI 1942462957
• Matthew Reilly Estill, MD

  • Internal Medicine Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1487629622
• Seneca Harberger, MD

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Wilkes Barre, PA
  • NPI 1316332562
• Gerrit W Heetderks, MD

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Trumansburg, NY
  • NPI 1740546746
• Robert Wayne Horowitz, MD

  • Medical Oncology Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1578667960
• Lucia Jander, MD

  • Internal Medicine Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1851368732
• Bruce L. Kuntz, MD

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1467421305
• Zbigniew A Lukawski, MD

  • Internal Medicine Physician
  • Cortland, NY
  • NPI 1659425197
• Douglas D Macqueen, MD

  • Infectious Disease Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1427129543
• Jagadish C Malakar, M.D.

  • Internal Medicine Physician
  • Cortland, NY
  • NPI 1700879640
• Walter Edward Margie III, M.D.

  • Internal Medicine Physician
  • Ithaca, NY
  • NPI 1427033349
• Ahmad M Mehdi, MD

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Tully, NY
  • NPI 1427037159
• Jialin See Nah, M.D.

  • Internal Medicine Physician
  • Woodside, NY
  • NPI 1336334457
• Steven Peter Nguyen, MD

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Cortland, NY
  • NPI 1679241061

• Beliefs & Values Addressed (if desired by the patient) 99.76
  • State average 99.61
  • National average 99.27
  • Period from 10/01/2024 - 09/30/2025
• Burdensome transitions, Type 1 (% live discharges) 0.9
  • State average 3.5
  • National average 8.5
  • Period from 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024
• Burdensome transitions, Type 2 (% live discharges) 0.9
  • State average 4.1
  • National average 2.1
  • Period from 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024
• CHC/GIP provided (% days) 0
  • State average 1.5
  • National average 0.5
  • Period from 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024
• Early live discharges (% live discharges) 13
  • State average 9.7
  • National average 7.3
  • Period from 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024
• Gaps in nursing visits (% elections) 63.3
  • State average 57.5
  • National average 52.4
  • Period from 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024
• Hospice and Palliative Care Composite Process Measure 99.76
  • State average 97.72
  • National average 96.15
  • Period from 10/01/2024 - 09/30/2025
• Hospice and Palliative Care Dyspnea Screening 100
  • State average 99.52
  • National average 99.53
  • Period from 10/01/2024 - 09/30/2025
• Hospice and Palliative Care Dyspnea Treatment 100
  • State average 99.21
  • National average 98.59
  • Period from 10/01/2024 - 09/30/2025
• Hospice and Palliative Care Pain Assessment 100
  • State average 98.69
  • National average 98.27
  • Period from 10/01/2024 - 09/30/2025
• Hospice and Palliative Care Pain Screening 100
  • State average 99.33
  • National average 99
  • Period from 10/01/2024 - 09/30/2025
• Hospice and Palliative Care Treatment Preferences 100
  • State average 99.94
  • National average 99.8
  • Period from 10/01/2024 - 09/30/2025
• Hospice Care Index Overall Score 10
  • State average 9.2
  • National average 8.8
  • Period from 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024
• Hospice Visits in the Last Days of Life 78.3
  • State average 50.8
  • National average 48.3
  • Period from 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024
• Late live discharges (% live discharges) 15.7
  • State average 29.5
  • National average 37.4
  • Period from 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024
• Nurse care minutes per routine home care days (minutes) 14.1
  • State average 18.5
  • National average 19.9
  • Period from 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024
• Patient Treated with an Opioid Who Are Given a Bowel Regimen 100
  • State average 99.38
  • National average 98.46
  • Period from 10/01/2024 - 09/30/2025
• Per-beneficiary spending (U.S. dollars $) 9,979
  • State average 11,764.72 (computed here)
  • National average 19,227
  • Period from 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024
• Skilled nursing minutes on weekends (% minutes) 6.5
  • State average 9.7
  • National average 9.6
  • Period from 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024
• Visits near death (% decedents) 98.2
  • State average 88.5
  • National average 89.3
  • Period from 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2024

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• Medicare Care Compare: the star rating and every measure on this page, with the state and national rates CMS publishes beside them, and the clinicians who list this facility as an affiliation.
• NPPES NPI Registry: the NPI records connected to this certification and the names of the providers listed above.

Better and worse are CMS's own comparison with the national rate, not ours: for most measures a low score is the good one (deaths, infections) and for others a high one is, so measures where CMS states no comparison are left uncoloured. The exception is star ratings, which are read against the national average here. Quality measures are published by CMS and are not adjusted or re-scored here. Averages marked “computed here” are the mean of every facility reporting that measure, worked out by NPIMap because CMS publishes no comparison for it. Confirm anything you rely on at Medicare Care Compare.