Massachusetts hospices: 77 Medicare-certified, source-cited identity + ownership data.
Ownership type, certification date, and CMS region for every Medicare-certified hospice in Massachusetts. CAHPS Hospice experience-of-care measures live in a separate CMS dataset (252m-zfp9) and are not included in this snapshot.
Editorial note: Massachusetts has dense local journalism + AARP coverage of hospice care; Fonteum's contribution is the per-facility identity + ownership data layer, not editorial commentary.
Ownership breakdown — Massachusetts
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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts
First 25 of 77 Medicare-certified hospices. Select a hospice to open its per-facility provenance page.
| Facility | City | Ownership | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good shepherd community care | NEWTON | Non-Profit | 10/01/1984 |
| Metrowest homecare and hospice, an amedisys compan | MARLBORO | For-Profit | 11/01/1984 |
| Vna & hospice of cooley dickinson | NORTHAMPTON | Non-Profit | 07/11/1985 |
| Tufts medicine care at home | LOWELL | Non-Profit | 09/25/1985 |
| Hopehealth hospice & palliative care | ATTLEBORO | Non-Profit | 07/24/1986 |
| Vna care hospice inc | WORCESTER | For-Profit | 12/05/1986 |
| Old colony hospice, inc | W BRIDGEWATER | Non-Profit | 08/27/1986 |
| Accentcare hospice of massachusetts | FALL RIVER | For-Profit | 12/18/1987 |
| Cranberry hospice | PLYMOUTH | Non-Profit | 06/23/1988 |
| Baystate hospice | WEST SPRINGFIELD | Non-Profit | 09/21/1988 |
| Care dimensions, inc | DANVERS | Non-Profit | 09/06/1989 |
| Health alliance home health and hospice | LEOMINSTER | For-Profit | 12/19/1989 |
| Hospice life care | HOLYOKE | Non-Profit | 03/28/1990 |
| Care central vna & hospice | GARDNER | For-Profit | 07/09/1991 |
| Hospicecare in the berkshires | PITTSFIELD | Non-Profit | 09/19/1991 |
| Hospice and palliative care | FAIRHAVEN | Other | 03/16/1993 |
| Beth israel lahey health at home | WOBURN | Non-Profit | 12/23/1993 |
| Community nurse home care, inc | FAIRHAVEN | Non-Profit | 12/21/1993 |
| Beacon hospice, an amedisys company | CHARLESTOWN | For-Profit | 04/03/1995 |
| Sudbury pines hospice | SUDBURY | For-Profit | 12/06/2001 |
| Visiting nurse association of cape cod hospice | HYANNIS | Non-Profit | 04/05/2002 |
| Compassus - southern massachusetts | NORTH ANDOVER | For-Profit | 04/16/2002 |
| Broad reach hospice | CHATHAM | For-Profit | 09/14/2004 |
| Compassus - greater western massachusetts | AUBURN | For-Profit | 12/21/2004 |
| Pioneer valley hospice & palliative care | GREENFIELD | Non-Profit | 03/09/2005 |
Massachusetts hospices — FAQ
- How many Medicare-certified hospices are in Massachusetts?
- 77 Medicare-certified hospices operate in Massachusetts as of the CMS Hospice General Information snapshot (2026-05-07). 57.1% are for-profit — ownership concentration is the documented quality-of-care variable in the hospice policy literature.
- Does Fonteum show hospice star ratings for Massachusetts?
- 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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts and the rest of the country.