Kentucky hospices: 23 Medicare-certified, source-cited identity + ownership data.
Ownership type, certification date, and CMS region for every Medicare-certified hospice in Kentucky. CAHPS Hospice experience-of-care measures live in a separate CMS dataset (252m-zfp9) and are not included in this snapshot.
Ownership breakdown — Kentucky
Hospice ownership concentration is the documented quality-of-care variable in policy literature; Fonteum surfaces the breakdown explicitly.
Hospice quality measures — what this page can and cannot show
Unlike nursing homes or home health, the CMS Hospice General Information file (yc9t-dgbk) that backs this page does notcarry star ratings or quality scores. Hospice quality is reported in the separate CAHPS Hospice Survey dataset (252m-zfp9), and CMS suppressed publicly reported hospice quality measures during the documented May 2026 → February 2028 transition to the new HOPE assessment.
Rather than fabricate a rating, Fonteum renders the fields that genuinely exist for every Kentucky hospice: CMS-certified identity, ownership type, CMS region, and Medicare certification date. When the HOPE-based measures publish, they will land here traced to their source.
Hospices in Kentucky
First 23 of 23 Medicare-certified hospices. Select a hospice to open its per-facility provenance page.
| Facility | City | Ownership | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospice of the bluegrass, inc dba bluegrass care n | LEXINGTON | Other | 11/07/1983 |
| Community hospice | ASHLAND | Non-Profit | 11/01/1983 |
| Hosparus, inc | LOUISVILLE | Non-Profit | 12/22/1983 |
| Hospice care plus, inc | RICHMOND | For-Profit | 06/10/1985 |
| Hospice east | WINCHESTER | Non-Profit | 09/19/1986 |
| Mercy health - hospice, paducah | PADUCAH | Non-Profit | 01/27/1987 |
| Vna health at home 1 | LONDON | Non-Profit | 08/26/1987 |
| Hospice of lake cumberland | SOMERSET | Non-Profit | 02/03/1988 |
| Hospice of southern kentucky | BOWLING GREEN | Non-Profit | 03/23/1988 |
| Hospice care of st elizabeth healthcare | EDGEWOOD | Non-Profit | 02/25/1988 |
| St claire hospice/palliative care | MOREHEAD | Non-Profit | 09/30/1988 |
| Heritage hospice, inc | DANVILLE | Non-Profit | 12/16/1988 |
| St anthony's hospice inc | HENDERSON | For-Profit | 10/30/1989 |
| Hospice of ohio county | HARTFORD | Non-Profit | 11/27/1989 |
| Hospice of hope inc | MAYSVILLE | Non-Profit | 03/02/1990 |
| Hospice of western kentucky | OWENSBORO | Non-Profit | 04/25/1990 |
| Vna health at home | BARDSTOWN | For-Profit | 08/28/1990 |
| Murray calloway county hospital hospice | MURRAY | Non-Profit | 03/19/1991 |
| Appalachian hospice care | PIKEVILLE | For-Profit | 04/25/1991 |
| Pennyroyal hospice | HOPKINSVILLE | For-Profit | 02/18/1992 |
| Hospice of the bluegrass | HAZARD | Non-Profit | 06/19/1992 |
| Hosparus western kentucky | MADISONVILLE | Non-Profit | 05/19/1993 |
| T j samson community hospital home care hospice | GLASGOW | For-Profit | 12/10/2003 |
Kentucky hospices — FAQ
- How many Medicare-certified hospices are in Kentucky?
- 23 Medicare-certified hospices operate in Kentucky as of the CMS Hospice General Information snapshot (2026-05-07). 26.1% are for-profit — ownership concentration is the documented quality-of-care variable in the hospice policy literature.
- Does Fonteum show hospice star ratings for Kentucky?
- No — and that is an honest data gap, not an omission. The CMS Hospice General Information file (yc9t-dgbk) that backs this page carries identity, ownership, and certification only. Hospice quality lives in the separate CAHPS Hospice Survey dataset (252m-zfp9), and CMS suppressed publicly reported hospice quality measures during the May 2026 → February 2028 transition to the new HOPE assessment. Fonteum renders the fields that exist rather than fabricating a rating.
- What can I learn from this hospice data today?
- For every Kentucky hospice you get its CMS-certified identity, ownership type, CMS region, and Medicare certification date — enough to map the ownership landscape and track when each provider entered the program. Each row links to a per-hospice provenance page.
- Where does this hospice data come from and how current is it?
- All columns trace to the CMS Hospice General Information dataset (PDC yc9t-dgbk), source-modified 2026-01-08. Fonteum redistributes the public-domain CMS file unaltered; cross-check any hospice at Medicare.gov.
Compare other facility types
Every Fonteum Care Compare module carries the same per-facility provenance for Kentucky and the rest of the country.