Home health care agencies · California

Ardent Hospice of the Desert

Name: Ardent Hospice of the Desert Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Palm Desert, CA · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 5.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ardent Hospice of the Desert runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade A.

Ardent Hospice of the Desert: 1.7 TCR = 33% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ardent Hospice of the Desert safety composite

Ardent Hospice of the Desert scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Ardent Hospice of the Desert: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.99× in 2024

Ardent Hospice of the Desert's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2022 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Palm Desert, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 33% of ind

DART 5.2 DART
RANK #28/188
PHOTO Shore Home Health
BOOK 3y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shore Home Health (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shore Home Hea

1.7
0228 - RV

1.7
Inspire Home H

1.7
Holy Cross Hom

1.7

What this shows Ardent Hospice of the Desert averages 1.7 TCR (33% of the Home health care agencies BLS benchmark).

Ardent Hospice of the Desert TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 5.2

Where Ardent Hospice of the Desert falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 188 Home health care agencies employers in California.

Ardent Hospice of the Desert (21 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ardent Hospice of the Desert has fewer employees than the Home health care agencies median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries
2024	5.2	5.2	1
2023	0.0	0.0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · CA · Palm Desert

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 106 employers in Palm Desert, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Shore Home Health	ONLEY, VA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	0228 - RV	RALEIGH, NC	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Inspire Home Health W LLC dba Faith Home Healthcare & Inspire Hospice W LLC dba Faith Hospice	WICHITA, KS	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Holy Cross Home Health	FT. LAUDERDALE, FL	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Poso Ridge,LLC	BAKERSFIELD	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc.	WALNUT GROVE	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TELESIS ONION CO., INC.	FIVE POINTS	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mayflower Farms Inc	ARBUCKLE	21 FTE
CITY-NEAR	JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Spa	Palm Desert	994 FTE
CITY-NEAR	JW Marriott Desert Springs	Palm Desert	800 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Marriott Shadow Ridge	Palm Desert	404 FTE
CITY-NEAR	5096	Palm Desert	357 FTE
NAT-TCR	State Electric Supply Company - Clarksburg	Clarksburg, WV	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	EVERSANA Life Science Services LLC - Memphis, TN	Memphis, TN	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Westlake Pipe & Fittings	Janesville, WI	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	ZF Active Safety US Inc.	Findlay, OH	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	YMCA of Memphis - Lakeland CDC	Lakeland, TN	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hampton Inn Kennebunk	Kennebunk, ME	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The ICEE Company - DENVER	Westminster, CO	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Applied Diamond, Inc.	Wilmington, DE	21 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.