Silverado South Houston Hospice
Proudly serving compassionate end-of-life care to patients throughout the South Houston area, including Sugar Land, Missouri City, Rosenberg and others
South Houston Hospice Care
South Houston Hospice provides compassionate end-of-life care to patients throughout the South Houston area, including Sugar Land, Missouri City, Rosenberg and others. For our North Houston Hospice page, please click here.
Providing comfort and dignity at the end of life’s journey requires both compassion and clinical expertise, and Silverado South Houston Hospice embodies these principles in a way that has allowed us to make a difference in countless lives. A hospice-certified Medical Director is one of the many ways we can provide an extra level of expertise, ensuring the best quality of life possible for both patients and their loved ones.
Silverado Hospice operates by the philosophy that how a person leaves the earth is as important as how they spent their time on it. By providing personalized medical, social and spiritual care, our hospice team gives patients a chance to experience life to the fullest and allow their families a chance to create cherished memories.
License #013822, Medicare ID #671600
Partnerships and Certifications
Your South Houston Team
Administrator
Evelin Godby
Evelin Godby
Administrator
Evelin has joined the Silverado family in 2014, bringing years of experience in skilled nursing, quality, and compassionate care. Prior to joining the team, she held key leadership positions in Skilled Nursing settings and has been a Registered Nurse for over 11 years. During her 8 years with Silverado Hospice she has served as Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Manager, EMR Specialist and Clinical Trainer, and for the last 4 years as Director of QAPI for our robust hospice and palliative programs. Evelin was awarded with the Hospice Modeling the Way Award in 2017 and the Hospice Excellence in Quality and Compliance Award in 2018. She is a Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse and earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Grand Canyon University, Phoenix Arizona. She is a strong advocate for providing quality end-of-life care and to meet the unique needs of each patients and families.
In her spare time, Evelin loves spending time playing Scrabble and card games with her family, solving puzzles, taking relaxing nature walks with her beloved Doberman, Ace, and binge watching movies on Netflix and Hulu.
Medical Director
Laura Haskovec, MD, HMDC
Laura Haskovec, MD, HMDC
Medical Director
Laura Haskovec, MD, HMDC is board certified in Family Medicine, Hospice Medical Directorship and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in 2011 and completed her family medicine residency and board certification in 2014. Laura went on to pursue fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at UT Health Science Center and became board certified in 2015. She also has experience caring for patients in a variety of settings including inpatient, outpatient, long term care and private homes.
Laura loves her profession and feels blessed to have been trained by the physician leaders that “wrote the book’ on Family Medicine, Geriatric Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. As the Medical Director, she leans on the Silverado Hospice team’s expertise and values their collaboration to provide holistic, patient-centered care.
During her free time, Laura enjoys reading novels, experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen and vacationing with her husband and three children.
Director of Patient Care Services
Stacy Pickett Price
Stacy Pickett Price
Director of Patient Care Services
Stacy has always felt a calling for patient care. Nursing became an obvious career choice after losing her son, Adam, to cancer in 1992 and her father in 2005. Stacy enrolled in nursing school that summer and graduated in 2010. She has benefited from some amazing mentors and role models in the past 8 years that have encouraged her on this path. She has been able to use her management skills to provide leadership and instruction to her team and families in her care. Hospice and caring for the terminally ill is a passion and an honor for Stacy.
In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her 3 daughters and 2 grandsons.
Regional Bereavement Counselor
Angel Ortega, Th.M.
Angel Ortega, Th.M.
Regional Bereavement Counselor
In 2023, Angel joined the Silverado family, bringing over eight years of experience in hospice care, specializing as both a Chaplain and Bereavement Coordinator. He obtained his Master’s degree in Theology from Florida Christian University in 2015, while simultaneously serving as a Pastor in a Christian church alongside his family. Angel possesses a compassionate demeanor and is dedicated to providing quality care to those he has the privilege to serve.
Beyond Silverado, Angel shares a fulfilling life with his wife and three teenagers. He finds joy in memorizing scriptures, working out and all things music!
Regional Business Office Manager
Marie Luque
Marie Luque
Regional Business Office Manager
Marie Luque joins us with a background in business and personnel administration, as well as compliance in both home health and hospice. After an interlude of 15 years spent giving golf and squash lessons to expats in Asia and South America, she returned to the United States with a renewed enthusiasm for a career in human resources. Marie brings over 30 years of human resources, compliance and office management experience to the Silverado Hospice team. She earned the honor of being the first Silverado associate to be promoted to the title of Senior BOM and is now the Regional Business Office Manager for both the North and South Houston team.
South Houston Highlights
Medicare Quality Ranking
Hospice providers are all ranked by the federal government on a range of quality indicators. We are proud to have exceeded the national average by families surveyed in these key areas of care:
Category | Texas Average | Silverado Hospice South Houston |
Patients who got an assessment of all 7 HIS quality measures at the beginning of hospice care to meet the HIS Comprehensive Assessment Measure requirements | 90.4% | 96.4% |
Percentage of patients who received visits from a registered nurse or medical social worker on at least 2 of the final 3 days of their life | 49.4% | 68% |
Emotional and spiritual support | 88% | 89% |
Hospice Care Index score (0-10) | 8.4 | 10 |
As of September, 2024
Source: Medicare.gov
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