Deficiency Index

Helping Hands Hospice

Tucumcari, New Mexico · CCN 321530

624 South 2nd Street

58 federal deficiencies across 5 surveys, January 19, 2022 to December 4, 2024.

Deficiencies58

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

Surveys5

Federal surveys with at least one deficiency

Condition-level8

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

What level the findings sit at

Condition-level813.8%
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-level5086.2%
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 Helping Hands Hospice
SurveyTypeDeficienciesCondition-level
Dec 4, 2024Recertification4—
Jun 13, 2024Complaint82
May 2, 2024Complaint82
Mar 10, 2022Focused Infection Control, Other-Fed, Recertification192
Jan 19, 2022Focused Infection Control, Other-Fed, Recertification192

In the inspector’s words

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

Read all 31 findings in full →

CMS publishes written findings for 31 of the 58 deficiencies on this hospice’s record.

Hospice findings published by CMS on QCOR, covering surveys from January 19, 2022 to December 4, 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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