Hospice in Kentucky

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 Kentucky is listed here.

23 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

Barren County 1

Boyd County 1

Boyle County 1

Calloway County 1

Christian County 1

Clark County 1

Daviess County 1

Fayette County 1

Henderson County 1

Hopkins County 1

Jefferson County 1

Kenton County 1

Laurel County 1

Madison County 1

Mason County 1

McCracken County 1

Nelson County 1

Ohio County 1

Perry County 1

Pike County 1

Pulaski County 1

Rowan County 1

Warren County 1