Avera At Home in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Avera At Home is a medicare-certified hospice facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It is a non-profit hospice and this hospice is a Freestanding Hospice. It is located at 4509 Prince Of Peace Place in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. You can reach out to the office of Avera At Home via phone at (605) 322-7705.

Avera At Home is first approved in December, 1988 to provide medicare and/or medicaid services and its CMS certification number (CCN) is 431503. Denver is the CMS Regional Office responsible for the certification of this hospice.

Contact Information


Avera At Home
4509 Prince Of Peace Place, Sioux Falls, SD, 57103
(605) 322-7705

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Hospice Profile

NameAvera At Home
Location4509 Prince Of Peace Place, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Hospice ID431503
CategoryFreestanding Hospice
Ownership TypeVoluntary Non-profit - Private
Profit TypeNON-PROFIT
SSA county code490

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Study finds familial restless legs syndrome more prominent among French Canadian women

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› Verified 9 days ago

NPI associated with this Hospice

A hospice usually have one NPI number but sometimes it may have multiple NPI numbers. We have found possible NPI number/s associated with Avera At Home from NPPES records by matching pattern on the basis of name, address, phone number etc. Please use this information accordingly.

NPI Number1467474239
Organization NameAvera At Home
Address4509 Prince Of Peace Pl Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 57103
Phone Number(605)322-5490

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› Verified 9 days ago


Quality of Patient Care at Avera At Home

Hospice staff should discuss treatment preferences and patient beliefs and values with patients and/or caregivers. They should also identify and provide interventions to address pain, shortness of breath and constipation (caused by opioids) to improve patient comfort and quality of life. Avera At Home has the following score in these measures of patient care.
Better than National Average Worse than National Average

Quality MeasureProvider ScoreNational Score
Patients or caregivers who were asked about treatment preferences like hospitalization and resuscitation at the beginning of hospice care99.898.3
Patients or caregivers who were asked about their beliefs and values at the beginning of hospice care94.993.6
Patients who were checked for pain at the beginning of hospice care94.593.9
Patients who got a timely and thorough pain assessment when pain was identified as a problem68.477.7
Patients who were checked for shortness of breath at the beginning of hospice care96.697.3
Patients who got timely treatment for shortness of breath98.194.6
Patients taking opioid pain medication who were offered care for constipation95.993.3

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Study finds familial restless legs syndrome more prominent among French Canadian women

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Most donors die in intensive care units, frequently after car accidents. Once it is clear that recovery is out of the question, families will be told that further treatment is futile and the issue of donation can be sensitively raised.

Read more Medical News

› Verified 9 days ago


Services Provided by Avera At Home:

Hospice provide various services either through their own staff or through third-party arrangements. Find the list of services provided by Avera At Home below:
  • By staff
    • Home Health Aide Service
    • Counseling Service
    • Home Maker Service
    • Medical Social Service
    • Medical Supply Service
    • Nursing Service
    • Physician Service
    • Short Term Inpatient care

  • Under Arrangement
    • Occupational Therapy
    • Physical Therapy
    • Speech Pathology

  • Combination of Staff and Under Arrangement
    • No services

  • Type of Short Term Inpatient Care
    • Acute and Respite

Number of Full-time equivalent Employees:

Number of full time equivalent employees at Avera At Home
Home Health Aides16
Homemakers10
Medical Social Workers 4
Physicians2
Registered Nurses33
Other Personnel1
Total Employees66

News Archive

H&P Labs announces licensing agreement to develop oral drug therapy against Ebola

H&P Labs Inc. announced an agreement with Harvard University and Brigham and Women's Hospital to license two classes of compounds in order to develop an oral drug therapy against Ebola.

VOA News examines obstetric fistula in Africa

VOA News examines obstetric fistula in Africa and looks at health officials' efforts to prevent and treat the condition.

Study finds familial restless legs syndrome more prominent among French Canadian women

Restless legs syndrome, which causes an irresistible desire to move legs, appears to be a hereditary condition that's more prominent among French Canadian women and may be caused by a combination of genetic influences and environmental effects. According to a large-scale study published in the Archives of Neurology, siblings of people affected by restless legs syndrome are three and a half times more likely to develop the disease.

Study may hold new revelations about how stress during pregnancy affects mothers and offspring

The sequencing of the first genome involving a cockroach species may one day serve as a model system comparable to how research on mice can apply to humans. In this case, the model could hold new revelations about how stress during pregnancy could affect both the mother and her offspring.

Organ donation: an interview with David Shaw

Most donors die in intensive care units, frequently after car accidents. Once it is clear that recovery is out of the question, families will be told that further treatment is futile and the issue of donation can be sensitively raised.

Read more Medical News

› Verified 9 days ago


Number of Full-time equivalent Volunteers:

Counselors0.8
Total Volunteers0.8

News Archive

H&P Labs announces licensing agreement to develop oral drug therapy against Ebola

H&P Labs Inc. announced an agreement with Harvard University and Brigham and Women's Hospital to license two classes of compounds in order to develop an oral drug therapy against Ebola.

VOA News examines obstetric fistula in Africa

VOA News examines obstetric fistula in Africa and looks at health officials' efforts to prevent and treat the condition.

Study finds familial restless legs syndrome more prominent among French Canadian women

Restless legs syndrome, which causes an irresistible desire to move legs, appears to be a hereditary condition that's more prominent among French Canadian women and may be caused by a combination of genetic influences and environmental effects. According to a large-scale study published in the Archives of Neurology, siblings of people affected by restless legs syndrome are three and a half times more likely to develop the disease.

Study may hold new revelations about how stress during pregnancy affects mothers and offspring

The sequencing of the first genome involving a cockroach species may one day serve as a model system comparable to how research on mice can apply to humans. In this case, the model could hold new revelations about how stress during pregnancy could affect both the mother and her offspring.

Organ donation: an interview with David Shaw

Most donors die in intensive care units, frequently after car accidents. Once it is clear that recovery is out of the question, families will be told that further treatment is futile and the issue of donation can be sensitively raised.

Read more Medical News

› Verified 9 days ago

Certification Details for Avera At Home:

  • March, 2017 is the initial visit of the health survey for certifications by CMS.
  • It is in compliance at the time of certification survey by CMS.
  • It is eligible to participate in the medicare and/or medicaid program.
  • Cgs Administrators Hhh is the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC), intermediary or carrier servicing this hospice.
  • Current status is Active Provider.
  • Reason of certification is Recertification.
  • End of fiscal year is on 30, June.
  • Related Provider Number is 430016.

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Medicare Hospice Care

What is Hospice Care?
Hospice care is a type of care and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs. Care may be provided in a patient's home or in a designated facility such as nursing home, hospital unit or freestanding hospice, with level of care and sometimes location based upon frequent evaluation of the paients needs. The four primary levels of care provided by hospice are routine home care, continuous care, general inpatient and respite care.

How long can one get medicare hospice care?
Hospice care is for people with a life expectancy of 6 months or less (if the disease runs its normal course). If the person receiving hospice care live longer than 6 months, he or she can still get hospice care.
  • A person can get hospice care for two 90-day benefit periods, followed by an unlimited number of 60-day benefit periods.
  • At the start of each period, the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor must recertify that the person is terminally ill (with a life expectancy of 6 months or less). This step is must for continued hospice care.

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