Hospice in New Jersey

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 New Jersey is listed here.

61 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

Atlantic County 4

Bergen County 6

Burlington County 6

Camden County 3

Cumberland County 2

Essex County 6

Gloucester County 2

Hudson County 1

Hunterdon County 1

Mercer County 3

Middlesex County 6

Monmouth County 3

Morris County 5

Ocean County 3

Passaic County 1

Somerset County 4

Sussex County 1

Union County 4