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Hospice market for funeral homes in District of Columbia

5 hospices have an office in District of Columbia and cared for 1,382 people with Medicare in 2024. See the hospices near your funeral home, ranked as partners:

The District of Columbia market

Hospices5
Medicare patients in 20241,382+57% since 2014
Average family survey stars1.0 of 5Hospices that report
Average would definitely recommend69%Hospices that report

By ownership

  • For-profit: 4
  • Nonprofit: 1

Medicare patients per year

All hospices here together, by CMS year.

20142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
2014: 883; 2015: 855; 2016: 898; 2017: 1,015; 2018: 1,140; 2019: 1,141; 2020: 1,319; 2021: 1,277; 2022: 1,243; 2023: 1,259; 2024: 1,382

CMS data, released August 2026. How we use it

Where the hospices are

Each dot is a hospice office, colored by ownership and sized by Medicare patients in 2024.

  • For-profit
  • Nonprofit
  • Government
  • Other ownership

Larger dot, more Medicare patients

Map of hospices

Largest hospices in 2024

By Medicare patients, the CMS count of people each hospice cared for. Size is not a measure of quality.

  1. 1Capital HospiceWashington · Nonprofit871
  2. 2Vitas Innovative Hospice Care of Greater Wash, DcWashington · For-profit250
  3. 3Accentcare Hospice & Palliative Care of Washington, DcWashington · For-profit167
  4. 4Affinity Care of DcWashington · For-profit94

Fastest-growing hospices

Compound annual growth in Medicare patients over three CMS years, for hospices with at least 30 patients in both years.

HospiceOwnership20212024Growth per year
Capital HospiceWashingtonNonprofit962871+-3.3%
Vitas Innovative Hospice Care of Greater Wash, DcWashingtonFor-profit279250+-3.6%

CMS Post-Acute Care utilization data. CMS does not publish counts below 11. How we use it

Your local market, ranked

Enter your ZIP, city or address to see the hospices within 10, 25 or 50 miles on a map, ranked by size, distance, growth and family survey results.

Every hospice in District of Columbia, by county