Hospice market for funeral homes in Mississippi
83 hospices have an office in Mississippi and cared for 21,634 people with Medicare in 2024. See the hospices near your funeral home, ranked as partners:
The Mississippi market
By ownership
- For-profit: 72
- Nonprofit: 4
- Government: 7
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.
- 1Accentcare Hospice & Palliative Care of MsFlowood · For-profit1,273
- 2Gentiva HospiceBooneville · For-profit936
- 3North Mississippi Medical CtrTupelo · Nonprofit711
- 4GentivaOxford · For-profit699
- 5Hospice Compassus- MississippiMccomb · For-profit694
- 6Arden of Central MississippiRidgeland · For-profit642
- 7Southern Care Inc DBA GentivaBiloxi · For-profit630
- 8Baptist Home Care & Hospice-North MississippiBatesville · For-profit618
- 9Forrest General Home Care and HospiceHattiesburg · Nonprofit609
- 10Vitalcaring GroupWiggins · For-profit560
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GentivaHattiesburg | For-profit | 81 | 272 | +49.7% |
| Deaconess HospiceBiloxi | For-profit | 131 | 425 | +48.0% |
| Arden of North Mississippi (Oxford)Oxford | For-profit | 45 | 127 | +41.3% |
| Heart of Hospice, LLC - SouthernHattiesburg | For-profit | 99 | 226 | +31.7% |
| Legacy Hospice of the South - BatesvilleBatesville | For-profit | 97 | 213 | +30.0% |
| GentivaOxford | For-profit | 328 | 699 | +28.7% |
| Legacy Hospice of the SouthStarkville | For-profit | 143 | 290 | +26.6% |
| Spring Vallley Hospice of TupeloTupelo | For-profit | 95 | 174 | +22.4% |
| Deaconess HospiceBrookhaven | For-profit | 171 | 313 | +22.3% |
| GentivaBatesville | For-profit | 110 | 195 | +21.0% |
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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