Senior Care Massachusetts

Hospice in Louisiana

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 Louisiana is listed here.

118 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

Acadia Parish 2

Allen Parish 2

Ascension Parish 1

Avoyelles Parish 1

Bienville Parish 1

Bossier Parish 2

Caddo Parish 5

Calcasieu Parish 4

Concordia Parish 1

De Soto Parish 1

East Baton Rouge Parish 15

Franklin Parish 1

Iberville Parish 1

Jackson Parish 1

Jefferson Parish 11

Lafayette Parish 11

Lafourche Parish 2

Lincoln Parish 1

Livingston Parish 1

Morehouse Parish 1

Natchitoches Parish 2

Orleans Parish 1

Ouachita Parish 8

Pointe Coupee Parish 1

Rapides Parish 9

Richland Parish 1

St. John the Baptist Parish 1

St. Landry Parish 1

St. Martin Parish 1

St. Mary Parish 1

St. Tammany Parish 9

Tangipahoa Parish 7

Terrebonne Parish 3

Vernon Parish 2

Washington Parish 1

Webster Parish 5