Deficiency Index

Center for Hope Hospice and Palliative Care

Scotch Plains, New Jersey · CCN 311505

1900 Raritan Road

61 federal deficiencies across 4 surveys, October 1, 2021 to December 3, 2024.

Deficiencies61

Excludes the inspector’s preamble, which is not a finding

Surveys4

Federal surveys with at least one deficiency

Condition-level6

Findings against a Condition of Participation — a compliance grade, not a measure of harm

What level the findings sit at

Condition-level69.8%
The agency was out of compliance with a federal Condition of Participation — a requirement it must meet to take part in Medicare at all.
Standard-level5590.2%
A requirement within a Condition of Participation. The Condition itself was not cited.

These are compliance grades, not harm grades: how deep in the regulation a finding sits, not whether anyone was harmed.

Who conducted the surveys

State Agency.

Federal surveys are carried out by the state agency or a CMS-approved accrediting organisation.

Most-cited requirements

Survey record

Federal surveys of Center for Hope Hospice and Palliative Care
SurveyTypeDeficienciesCondition-level
Dec 3, 2024Recertification8—
Oct 3, 2024Recertification203
May 13, 2024Recertification283
Oct 1, 2021Focused Infection Control, Other-Fed, Recertification5—

In the inspector’s words

The complete written findings for this hospice, in the inspector’s own words.

Read all 28 findings in full →

CMS publishes written findings for 28 of the 61 deficiencies on this hospice’s record.

Hospice findings published by CMS on QCOR, covering surveys from October 1, 2021 to December 3, 2024. The inspectors’ written findings come from a single CMS survey-report extract.

Federal survey findings only. State licensure findings for hospices are not shown.

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