This started with my mom.
I built Wayven so no family has to make the most important decision of their lives based on a list of names and nothing else.
When my mom needed hospice care, I expected there’d be an easy way to compare providers.
There wasn’t.
The hospital handed us a list of names. No context. No quality information. No way to tell who was excellent and who was terrible. We were grieving, exhausted, and making one of the most important decisions of our lives based on essentially nothing.
The discharge planner recommended a provider. The one they always recommend. The one they had a relationship with. We had no idea if that was the best choice or just the most convenient one for the hospital.
After my mom passed, I learned something that made me angry.
The government actually collects detailed quality data on every hospice in the country. It’s public. CMS publishes it. But it’s buried in spreadsheets and data files that no normal person would ever find, let alone read. The information we desperately needed was sitting on a government server the entire time.
Nobody told us. Nobody pointed us to it. Nobody translated it into something a scared, overwhelmed family could use.
So I built Wayven.
Not because I wanted to start a company. Because no family should have to go through what we went through. Quality varies wildly between hospice providers — even in the same city. Some are exceptional. Some are not. And right now, most families have no way to tell the difference.
What we believe
These aren’t marketing slogans. They’re the rules we don’t break.
Transparency over marketing
No paid listings. No referral fees. No advertising. Every provider is evaluated the same way using the same public data. Nobody can pay to look better. If a hospice performs poorly, you deserve to see that.
Data over opinions
We don’t editorialize. We don’t write reviews. We take the quality data that CMS publishes on every Medicare-certified hospice and translate it into plain language. The numbers speak for themselves.
Families over profits
This site exists for one reason: to help families make better decisions during one of the hardest moments of their lives. If it doesn’t serve that purpose, it doesn’t belong here.
Where the data comes from
We don’t make up scores. We translate the ones the government already publishes.
CMS is the source
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services evaluates every Medicare-certified hospice in the country on care quality, patient outcomes, and family satisfaction. This is the same federal agency that certifies these providers to operate.
Updated monthly
CMS refreshes this data on a regular cycle. We pull the latest release each month so the scores you see reflect the most recent reporting period available.
Scores you can understand
We calculate a composite quality score for each provider and compare it against their state average. You can see at a glance whether a hospice is above, below, or at the standard for your area.
No editorial layer
We don’t write reviews, accept provider edits, or let anyone influence how they appear. What you see is what CMS reported. We translate — we don’t editorialize.
I wish this existed when we needed it.
If you’re reading this, you’re probably going through something similar. I’m sorry. And I hope what I built here makes this part a little less hard.
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— Jacob, Founder