Hospice market for funeral homes in Kentucky
23 hospices have an office in Kentucky and cared for 23,078 people with Medicare in 2024. See the hospices near your funeral home, ranked as partners:
The Kentucky market
By ownership
- For-profit: 8
- Nonprofit: 15
Medicare patients per year
All hospices here together, by CMS year.
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
Largest hospices in 2024
By Medicare patients, the CMS count of people each hospice cared for. Size is not a measure of quality.
- 1HosparusLouisville · Nonprofit6,763
- 2Hospice of the Bluegrass, Inc DBA Bluegrass Care NLexington · Nonprofit3,666
- 3Hospice of the BluegrassHazard · Nonprofit2,235
- 4Hospice Care of St Elizabeth HealthcareEdgewood · Nonprofit1,623
- 5Mercy Health - Hospice, PaducahPaducah · Nonprofit1,041
- 6Hospice of Lake CumberlandSomerset · Nonprofit996
- 7Hospice of Southern KentuckyBowling Green · Nonprofit920
- 8Hospice of Western KentuckyOwensboro · For-profit893
- 9Community HospiceAshland · Nonprofit891
- 10Compassionate Care PlusRichmond · For-profit603
Fastest-growing hospices
Compound annual growth in Medicare patients over three CMS years, for hospices with at least 30 patients in both years.
| Hospice | Ownership | 2021 | 2024 | Growth per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospice of Southern KentuckyBowling Green | Nonprofit | 621 | 920 | +14.0% |
| Hospice of Western KentuckyOwensboro | For-profit | 723 | 893 | +7.3% |
| Hospice of the BluegrassHazard | Nonprofit | 1,869 | 2,235 | +6.1% |
| T J Samson Community Hospital Home Care HospiceGlasgow | For-profit | 193 | 228 | +5.7% |
| Hospice of Lake CumberlandSomerset | Nonprofit | 886 | 996 | +4.0% |
| Hospice Care of St Elizabeth HealthcareEdgewood | Nonprofit | 1,491 | 1,623 | +2.9% |
| HosparusLouisville | Nonprofit | 6,691 | 6,763 | +0.4% |
| Hospice of Ohio CountyHartford | Nonprofit | 100 | 100 | +0.0% |
| VNA Health at HomeBardstown | For-profit | 170 | 170 | +0.0% |
| Community HospiceAshland | Nonprofit | 905 | 891 | +-0.5% |
CMS Post-Acute Care utilization data. CMS does not publish counts below 11. How we use it
Your local market, ranked
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