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In-Home Care in Port Jefferson

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There are 0 verified in-home care options listed in Port Jefferson. New York's Department of Health licenses and inspects this care type.

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In-home care covers two different things that families often conflate. Non-medical home care is help with daily activities, companionship and household tasks. Home health is clinical care ordered by a physician and delivered by licensed staff.

Short answer

No verified in-home care provider is currently based in Port Jefferson. The closest verified options are listed below.

What to watch for with in-home care in Port Jefferson

  • Non-medical home care is generally private pay. Medicare does not cover it. Get your state's CareScout non-medical caregiver hourly median.

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Verified in-home care in Port Jefferson

Nothing verified in Port Jefferson yet. Hospice and home care are delivered wherever the patient lives, so the agency's office address matters far less than its service area. Agencies based in West Islip and Farmingdale routinely cover Port Jefferson. We only list providers we have confirmed against their own published information, so this list is shorter than the aggregator directories — and more reliable.

Closest verified providers

ProviderBased inAddressCounty
Our Lady of Consolation Nursing & RehabilitationWest Islip111 Beach Drive, 11795Suffolk
Catholic Health Home CareFarmingdale110 Bi-County Blvd Suite 114, 11735Suffolk

The Port Jefferson market specifically

Both John T. Mather Memorial Hospital and St. Charles Hospital sit in this North Shore harbor village, an unusual concentration of acute care for a town this size, and the cross-Sound ferry adds a retiree draw not found elsewhere on this list.

Port Jefferson families often compare Smithtown or Mount Sinai, both close by, especially when a specific hospital-system affiliation (Catholic Health vs. Stony Brook Medicine) matters to the family.

The local long-term care ombudsman. Suffolk: Family Service League, 631-470-6755. Nassau: Family and Children's Association, 516-466-9718. Read the full explanation →

Questions families ask

What's the difference between a nursing home and an assisted living residence in New York, regulation-wise?

Nursing homes are licensed under 10 NYCRR Part 415, Nursing Homes - Minimum Standards, a distinct regulatory chapter focused on skilled, medically intensive care. Assisted Living Residences are licensed under 10 NYCRR Part 1001, and can only exist as an additional certification on top of an already-licensed Adult Home or Enriched Housing Program, themselves licensed under 18 NYCRR Parts 487 and 488.

At what point does hourly in-home care cost more than assisted living in New York?

Using CareScout's 2025 New York State medians, in-home non-medical caregiving costs $35 per hour, or about $6,673 per month at 44 hours a week, compared to assisted living's median of $7,110 per month ($225 per day). At roughly 45 to 46 hours per week of paid in-home care, the monthly cost crosses over and exceeds the assisted living median; families needing care beyond that, including any overnight or 24/7 coverage, would generally spend more on home care than on a private one-bedroom assisted living apartment.

What's the difference between a CCRC or Life Plan Community and a standalone assisted living or nursing facility on Long Island?

A Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC), also called a Life Plan Community, offers a full continuum of care, independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing, on one campus, so a resident can move between levels of care as needs change without relocating to a different facility or provider. Long Island examples include Jefferson's Ferry in South Setauket, which describes itself as Long Island's first Life Plan Community, and Peconic Landing in Greenport, which describes itself as New York's only equity-based CCRC; a standalone assisted living or nursing facility, by contrast, offers only one level of care and requires a resident to move elsewhere if their needs change.

Who regulates assisted living facilities on Long Island?

New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) licenses and regulates assisted living as part of its Adult Care Facility (ACF) program, which covers Adult Homes, Enriched Housing Programs, and Assisted Living Residences (ALR). Long Island facilities are overseen locally through NYSDOH's Metropolitan Area Regional Office - Long Island (MARO-LI) in Central Islip. Nursing homes are licensed separately by NYSDOH under a different set of regulations (10 NYCRR Part 415).

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