Hospice in Alaska
Hospice provides comfort care, nursing, aide help, social work, spiritual care and family support for people with a life expectancy of six months or less, most often in their own home or in a nursing home. Every Medicare-certified hospice in Alaska is listed here.
Who pays
The Medicare hospice benefit covers hospice care in full, including medications and equipment related to the terminal illness. Medicaid and private insurance also cover it.
How to choose
Ask whether the hospice is non-profit or for-profit, how often a nurse visits, whether they have an inpatient unit, and what the overnight on-call response time is. CMS publishes family survey results for each hospice.
Hospice by city or town
Each city or town page lists every hospice that serves it, sorted by distance. The city or towns with the most options:
- Anchorage 3
- Butte 3
- Gateway 3
- Knik River 3
- Knik-Fairview 3
- Palmer 3
- Point MacKenzie 3
- South Lakes 3
- Wasilla 3
- Hope 2
- Sunrise 2
- Badger 1
- Big Lake 1
- Buffalo Soapstone 1
- Chena Ridge 1
- College 1
- Eielson AFB 1
- Ester 1
- Fairbanks 1
- Farm Loop 1
- Farmers Loop 1
- Fishhook 1
- Fox 1
- Goldstream 1
- Houston 1
- Juneau 1
- Ketchikan 1
- Lazy Mountain 1
- Loring 1
- Meadow Lakes 1
- Metlakatla 1
- Moose Creek 1
- North Lakes 1
- North Pole 1
- Pleasant Valley 1
- Saxman 1
- South Van Horn 1
- Steele Creek 1
- Sutton-Alpine 1
- Tanaina 1
- Two Rivers 1
- Willow 1
Every city or town has a page; find yours through its county or the search box.
All hospice providers by county
Anchorage Municipality 2
- Enhabit Hospice, Anchorage · (907) 272-1275
- Providence at Home With Compassus Hospice Care, Anchorage, Anchorage · (907) 563-0130
Fairbanks North Star Borough 1
- Fairbanks Memorial Hospital Hospice Services, Fairbanks · (907) 458-3090
Juneau City and Borough 1
- Bartlett Home Health and Hospice, Juneau · -
Ketchikan Gateway Borough 1
- Peacehealth Hospice, Ketchikan · (907) 228-7600
Matanuska-Susitna Borough 1
- Ancora Home Health & Hospice, LLC, Wasilla · (907) 561-9240