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Iron County, Utah · A nurse answers any hour
Hospice care in Cedar City, Utah
Cedar City families often tell us they assumed good hospice care meant driving to St. George — or waiting for someone from St. George to drive up. We staff Iron County as its own service area, because a 50-mile answer to a 2am symptom is not an answer.
10/10 Medicare Hospice Care Index
Locally owned, team of 10
Same-day admissions
Serving Cedar City families at home
Cedar City sits at about 5,800 feet, and that matters clinically more than people expect. Breathlessness behaves differently at altitude, oxygen needs are often higher than the same patient would need in the valley, and winter weather genuinely affects whether a family can get out for a prescription. We plan for all three: oxygen sized for where you actually live, comfort medications stocked in the home before you need them, and visit schedules that account for snow on the roads.
We coordinate with the hospital, the clinics, and the assisted living and skilled nursing communities in Cedar City, and we serve the surrounding Iron County towns — Enoch, Parowan, Paragonah, Kanarraville, Summit, and Brian Head. If you are unsure whether your address is inside our area, call and ask; the answer is usually yes.
We come to wherever home is in Cedar City: a private house, a family member’s spare room, an assisted living apartment, memory care, or a skilled nursing facility. The goal is always to avoid one more move.
Also serving nearby: Enoch, Parowan, Paragonah, Kanarraville, Summit, Brian Head, and the neighborhoods around Southern Utah University. Not sure whether your address is inside our service area? Call and ask — the answer is usually yes.
What Cedar City families get
- A registered nurse (RN) on call 24 hours a day — reaching our own team, not a third-party answering service, and able to come out at night.
- Certified nursing assistant (CNA) visits for bathing, grooming, and personal care, from CNAs we train in-house.
- Aggressive pain and symptom management, adjusted as often as it takes and overseen by our medical director, Dr. Karen Radley.
- Medications, equipment, and supplies related to the hospice diagnosis — delivered to your door and set up.
- Social work, chaplaincy, massage therapy, and volunteers as part of the same benefit, at no additional cost.
- Bereavement support for 13 months after a death, for the whole family.
What it costs in Cedar City
For most families, nothing out of pocket. Hospice is covered under Medicare Part A, and Utah Medicaid and most private insurance plans cover it on similar terms. We verify your coverage and give you the numbers in writing before anything is signed. See exactly what is and isn’t covered →
Not sure it’s time yet?
That is the most common place families in Cedar City start, and it is the right question to ask early rather than late. We wrote a plain-English guide to the signs, the first 48 hours, and how hospice differs from palliative care. Read: how do I know when it’s time? →
Why families here choose us
Ten out of ten, and no phone tree
Every hospice bills Medicare the same daily rate. What differs is how often somebody actually comes to the house — which is exactly what Medicare’s Hospice Care Index measures.
Locally owned, ten people
Staffing decisions are made here in Southern Utah, by people who also go out on visits. You will know your nurse by name.
Nights and weekends
After-hours calls reach our own nurse — and a nurse will come out. Fewer emergency room trips at 2am.
Hospice care in Cedar City, starting today
Admissions happen seven days a week, including evenings. Call and we will come out and explain everything — free, and with no obligation.