Hospice in California

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 California is listed here.

1913 hospice providers statewide · Source: CMS Care Compare, Hospice General Information dataset · Updated 2026-10-30

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:

Every city or town has a page; find yours through its county or the search box.

All hospice providers by county

Alameda County 46

Amador County 1

Butte County 3

Colusa County 1

Contra Costa County 26

Del Norte County 1

El Dorado County 3

Fresno County 21

Humboldt County 1

Imperial County 3

Inyo County 1

Kern County 19

Kings County 1

Lake County 1

Los Angeles County 1160

Marin County 2

Mendocino County 1

Merced County 1

Monterey County 4

Napa County 2

Nevada County 2

Orange County 139

Placer County 8

Riverside County 67

Sacramento County 35

San Bernardino County 153

San Diego County 64

San Francisco County 7

San Joaquin County 7

San Luis Obispo County 1

San Mateo County 10

Santa Barbara County 5

Santa Clara County 16

Santa Cruz County 1

Shasta County 4

Siskiyou County 2

Solano County 9

Sonoma County 3

Stanislaus County 5

Sutter County 2

Tulare County 3

Tuolumne County 1

Ventura County 69

Yolo County 1

Yuba County 1