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Two or three providers side by side, across the public record: licensing, ratings, inspections, penalties, staffing, ownership, and what care costs locally. Where no agency publishes a figure for a kind of provider, the cell says so rather than sitting empty next to a number and reading like a low score.

Ascend Hospice of Idaho vs. Elite Hospice

Care types

What each provider is licensed or certified to deliver. Different care types answer to different regulators, which is why the rows below are not always comparable.

Ascend Hospice of Idaho

Hospice Care

Elite Hospice

Hospice Care

Licensed capacity

Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no licensed capacity for either of these providers, and cannot yet say whether that means there is nothing to report or a file we have not read. Nothing here should be read as a difference between them.

Ascend Hospice of Idaho

Not established

The roster we read for this provider does not carry a licensed capacity. Not every state publishes one.

Elite Hospice

Not established

The roster we read for this provider does not carry a licensed capacity. Not every state publishes one.

License status

The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no license status for either of these providers, and cannot yet say whether that means there is nothing to report or a file we have not read. Nothing here should be read as a difference between them.

Ascend Hospice of Idaho

Not established

Idaho's roster carries no status word for this license in the file we read. That is a gap in the file, not a lapsed license.

Elite Hospice

Not established

Idaho's roster carries no status word for this license in the file we read. That is a gap in the file, not a lapsed license.

Published rating

Whatever the publishing regulator published, on the scale the regulator used. Nothing here is rescaled to five stars.

Ascend Hospice of Idaho

None on record

CMS has not published a Hospice Care Index score for this hospice. It scores only hospices that report enough measures.

Elite Hospice

None on record

CMS has not published a Hospice Care Index score for this hospice. It scores only hospices that report enough measures.

Inspection citations

How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.

Ascend Hospice of Idaho

1 citation

Most recent Oct 9, 2025

Elite Hospice

1 citation

Most recent Jul 17, 2024

Fines and payment denials

Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.

Not a like-for-like comparison. No public system publishes fines and payment denials for either of these providers, so there is nothing to compare here for either one.

Ascend Hospice of Idaho

Not comparable

CMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only, so no hospice appears in it.

Elite Hospice

Not comparable

CMS's published penalty file covers certified nursing homes only, so no hospice appears in it.

Nurse staffing hours

Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.

Not a like-for-like comparison. No public system publishes nurse staffing hours for either of these providers, so there is nothing to compare here for either one.

Ascend Hospice of Idaho

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for hospices.

Elite Hospice

Not comparable

Staffing hours are published only for nursing homes, not for hospices.

Ownership and chain

Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no ownership and chain for either of these providers, and cannot yet say whether that means there is nothing to report or a file we have not read. Nothing here should be read as a difference between them.

Ascend Hospice of Idaho

Not established

Ownership details are not on file yet.

Elite Hospice

Not established

Ownership details are not on file yet.

Typical local cost

The published monthly median for this care type in this provider's city. A market figure, never a price quoted by this provider.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold no typical local cost for either of these providers, and cannot yet say whether that means there is nothing to report or a file we have not read. Nothing here should be read as a difference between them.

Ascend Hospice of Idaho

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Lewiston, ID yet.

Elite Hospice

Not established

We have not published a monthly median for this care type in Lewiston, ID yet.

What the blank cells mean

None on record.
The public record covers this provider and lists nothing.
Not comparable.
No agency publishes this measure for this kind of provider. Shown hatched.
Not established.
We don't have this record for this provider yet.

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