Hospice in Delaware
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 Delaware 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:
- Arden 21
- Ardencroft 21
- Ardentown 21
- Bellefonte 21
- Claymont 21
- Edgemoor 21
- Elsmere 21
- Greenville 21
- Hockessin 21
- New Castle 21
- Newport 21
- Pike Creek 21
- Pike Creek Valley 21
- Wilmington 21
- Wilmington Manor 21
- North Star 20
- Bear 17
- Brookside 17
- Delaware 17
- Newark 17
- Port Penn 17
- St. Georges 16
- Glasgow 15
- Odessa 14
- Middletown 13
- Townsend 12
- Smyrna 10
- Clayton 9
- Camden 5
- Cheswold 5
- Highland Acres 5
- Kent Acres 5
- Kenton 5
- Rodney 5
- Woodside East 5
- Wyoming 5
- Bowers 4
- Dover 4
- Dover Base Housing 4
- Farmington 4
- Felton 4
- Greenwood 4
- Harrington 4
- Hartly 4
- Leipsic 4
- Little Creek 4
- Magnolia 4
- Rising Sun-Lebanon 4
- Riverview 4
- Viola 4
- Woodside 4
- Bethel 3
- Blades 3
- Bridgeville 3
- Dagsboro 3
- Ellendale 3
- Frankford 3
- Frederica 3
- Georgetown 3
- Houston 3
Every city or town has a page; find yours through its county or the search box.
All hospice providers by county
Kent County 1
- Delaware Hospice Central Div, Dover · (302) 678-4444
New Castle County 8
- Acts Signature Hospice Delaware, Hockessin · (302) 235-6888
- Bayada Hospice, Wilmington · (302) 351-3633
- Christianacare Accentcare Hosp & Palliative Care, Newark · (302) 533-3800
- Compassionate Care Hospice, Newport · (302) 993-9090
- Delaware Hospice - North Division, Newark · (302) 478-5707
- Heartland Hospice, Newark · (302) 737-7080
- Patriot Home Care, Wilmington · (302) 295-6312
- Vitas Healthcare Corporation Atlantic, Newark · (302) 451-4000
Sussex County 2
- Compassionate Care Hospice of the Delmar Peninsula, Milford · (302) 856-2659
- Delaware Hospice, INC Southern Division, Milford · (302) 856-7717