St Croix Hospice

When those deficiencies happened

1 visit on record, nothing cited. The last 3 years, to Oct 27, 2026.

• Medicare-certified hospice since Feb 14, 2024.
• CMS doesn’t list its type of ownership.
• No condition-level: what this means deficiency or immediate jeopardy: what this means on record in the last three years.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for hospices, so none are shown.
• 0 deficiencies cited in the last three years came from inspections that included a complaint investigation.

• From Medicare claims (Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2024): 13.4 nurse care minutes per routine home care day, 13.3% of skilled nursing minutes at weekends and a visit near death for 96.6% of patients who died.
• Where its patients were cared for (Jan 1, 2024 to Dec 31, 2024): 25% at home, 47% in assisted living, 28% in a nursing facility.

• Stch MN Holdco LLC owns 100% directly since Apr 5, 2023.
• 16 owners or officers are people: Stephen C Phenneger (corporate officer); Stephen C Phenneger (corporate director); Stephen C Phenneger (managing employee (on the payroll)); Stephen C Phenneger (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Tamila A Johnson-White (managing employee (on the payroll)); Tamila A Johnson-White (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Mandy L Cogswell (managing employee (on the payroll)); Mandy L Cogswell (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Kelly J Goeb (managing employee (on the payroll)); Kelly J Goeb (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Heath A Bartness (corporate officer); Heath A Bartness (corporate director); Heath A Bartness (managing employee (on the payroll)); Heath A Bartness (runs it (operational or managerial control)); Amber L Friehl (managing employee (on the payroll)); Amber L Friehl (runs it (operational or managerial control)).
• A private-equity firm is among the owners CMS lists.
• No real-estate investment trust among the owners CMS lists.

• Family caregivers rate it 4 of 5 in CMS’s survey (Oct 1, 2023 to Sep 30, 2025): 89% rated it 9 or 10 out of 10, and 90% would definitely recommend it.
• CMS’s Hospice Care Index: 8 of 10 (Jan 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2024).
• 99.68% of patients were assessed on all seven of CMS’s measures at the start of care (Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2025).

• Of the 6 hospices CMS’s data show serving patients in ZIP code 56301, where this hospice’s office is, the middle number of deficiencies cited in the last three years was 1; this one had 0.

• CMS doesn’t publish fines or other penalties for hospices, so none are shown.
• Only complaints that led to a citation appear; complaints that didn’t aren’t published.
• CMS ended its Special Focus Program for hospices with serious problems on Feb 14, 2025, so no hospice is marked as one.
• Hospice quality measures have a gap from October 2025: CMS replaced its patient assessment then, and public results from the new one (HOPE) are expected around November 2027.

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospice General Information (yc9t-dgbk).

  Released Aug 26, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospice Provider Data (252m-zfp9).

  Released Aug 26, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CAHPS Hospice Survey (gxki-hrr8).

  Released Aug 26, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, QCOR hospice inspection reports (Hospice Survey Reports - Oct 2021 through Sep 2026.xlsx).

  Released Oct 23, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospice All Owners (e983965e-1603-4cb8-82b5-c40090e380d1).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospice Enrollments (25704213-e833-4b8b-9dbc-58dd17149209).

  Released Sep 29, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Hospice ZIP Data (95rg-2usp).

  Released Aug 26, 2026 and checked Oct 27, 2026. Updated quarterly. Public domain (U.S. Government work).

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