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Hospice Care in your area

Comfort-focused care for a life-limiting illness, delivered at home, in a facility, or in a dedicated inpatient unit.

Quick answer

New York's Department of Health regulates hospice care through the state's Adult Care Facility and Assisted Living Residence system.

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Hospice is comfort-focused care for a life-limiting illness, generally when a physician expects six months or less. It is delivered wherever the person lives — at home, in assisted living, in a nursing facility, or in a dedicated inpatient unit.

Short answer

We list 10 verified hospice care providers across your metro. Hospice is comfort-focused care for a life-limiting illness, generally when a physician expects six months or less.

Three things worth knowing first

  • Medicare's hospice benefit covers the hospice team, medications related to the terminal diagnosis, and equipment. It does not cover room and board in a facility.
  • Palliative care is not the same thing. It focuses on symptom relief and can run alongside treatment intended to cure, at any stage.
  • You can change hospice providers, and you can revoke hospice and return to curative treatment.
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Verified hospice care across the region

We list 10 verified hospice care providers across your metro. The full table with addresses and counties lives in the directory.

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Hospice Care by city

Hospice Care in Huntington

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Hospice Care in Hempstead

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Garden City

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Levittown

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Freeport

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Long Beach

1 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Massapequa

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Great Neck

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Mineola

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Rockville Centre

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Babylon

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Islip

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Bay Shore

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Patchogue

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Smithtown

1 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Riverhead

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Port Jefferson

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Commack

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Brentwood

1 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Oyster Bay

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Glen Cove

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Plainview

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Syosset

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Farmingdale

1 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Wantagh

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Seaford

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Bethpage

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Merrick

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Bellmore

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Oceanside

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Deer Park

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Lindenhurst

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Amityville

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Ronkonkoma

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Selden

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Centereach

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Kings Park

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in St. James

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Sayville

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Southampton

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Stony Brook

1 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in New Hyde Park

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Uniondale

1 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Hauppauge

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in West Babylon

0 verified · Suffolk County

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Hospice Care in Westbury

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Valley Stream

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Port Washington

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Franklin Square

0 verified · Nassau County

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Hospice Care in Woodmere

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Questions families ask

Does Nassau County or Suffolk County have a bigger, more spread-out senior care market?

Suffolk County's senior care market is more geographically spread out, stretching from denser, transit-served western hamlets such as Huntington, Brentwood, Bay Shore, and Islip to more rural, exurban North and South Fork communities that have become popular retirement-relocation destinations. Nassau County's market is more geographically compact, concentrated along its village and LIRR corridor towns, including Garden City, Rockville Centre, Great Neck, Freeport, Long Beach, and Mineola.

What's the difference between standard assisted living and memory care in New York?

Standard assisted living in New York is licensed as an Assisted Living Residence (ALR) under 10 NYCRR Part 1001. Memory care is not a separate license; it's delivered through a Special Needs Assisted Living Residence (SNALR) certification, an additional certification an ALR can obtain to serve residents with dementia or cognitive impairments per an Individualized Service Plan, regulated under the same Part 1001 rules.

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.

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