Hospice in District of Columbia
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 District of Columbia 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:
Every city or town has a page; find yours through its county or the search box.
All hospice providers by county
District of Columbia 5
- Accentcare Hospice & Palliative Care of Washington, Dc, Washington · (804) 690-2412
- Affinity Care of Dc LLC, Washington · (202) 800-9006
- Capital Hospice, Washington · (202) 244-8300
- Professional Healthcare Resources of Washington Dc, Washington · (202) 955-8355
- Vitas Innovative Hospice Care of Greater Wash, Dc, Washington · (202) 414-5411