Massachusetts hospices: 77 Medicare-certified, source-cited identity + ownership data.
Ownership type, certification date, and CMS region for every Medicare-certified hospice in Massachusetts. CAHPS Hospice experience-of-care measures live in a separate CMS dataset and are not included in this snapshot.
Editorial note: Massachusetts has dense local journalism + AARP coverage of hospice care; Fonteum's contribution is the per-facility identity + ownership data layer, not editorial commentary.
Ownership breakdown — Massachusetts
Hospice ownership concentration is the documented quality-of-care variable in policy literature; Fonteum surfaces the breakdown explicitly.
Hospice quality measures — what this page can and cannot show
Unlike nursing homes or home health, the CMS Hospice General Information file that backs this page does notcarry star ratings or quality scores. Hospice quality is reported in the separate CAHPS Hospice Survey dataset, and CMS suppressed publicly reported hospice quality measures during the documented May 2026 → February 2028 transition to the new HOPE assessment.
Rather than fabricate a rating, Fonteum renders the fields that genuinely exist for every Massachusetts hospice: CMS-certified identity, ownership type, CMS region, and Medicare certification date. When the HOPE-based measures publish, they will land here traced to their source.
Hospices in Massachusetts
First 25 of 77 Medicare-certified hospices. The table is an unlinked state inventory.
| Facility | City | Ownership | Certified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good shepherd community care | NEWTON | Non-Profit | 10/01/1984 |
| Metrowest homecare and hospice, an amedisys compan | MARLBORO | For-Profit | 11/01/1984 |
| Vna & hospice of cooley dickinson | NORTHAMPTON | Non-Profit | 07/11/1985 |
| Tufts medicine care at home | LOWELL | Non-Profit | 09/25/1985 |
| Hopehealth hospice & palliative care | ATTLEBORO | Non-Profit | 07/24/1986 |
| Vna care hospice inc | WORCESTER | For-Profit | 12/05/1986 |
| Old colony hospice, inc | W BRIDGEWATER | Non-Profit | 08/27/1986 |
| Accentcare hospice of massachusetts | FALL RIVER | For-Profit | 12/18/1987 |
| Cranberry hospice | PLYMOUTH | Non-Profit | 06/23/1988 |
| Baystate hospice | WEST SPRINGFIELD | Non-Profit | 09/21/1988 |
| Care dimensions, inc | DANVERS | Non-Profit | 09/06/1989 |
| Health alliance home health and hospice | LEOMINSTER | For-Profit | 12/19/1989 |
| Hospice life care | HOLYOKE | Non-Profit | 03/28/1990 |
| Care central vna & hospice | GARDNER | For-Profit | 07/09/1991 |
| Hospicecare in the berkshires | PITTSFIELD | Non-Profit | 09/19/1991 |
| Hospice and palliative care | FAIRHAVEN | Other | 03/16/1993 |
| Beth israel lahey health at home | WOBURN | Non-Profit | 12/23/1993 |
| Community nurse home care, inc | FAIRHAVEN | Non-Profit | 12/21/1993 |
| Beacon hospice, an amedisys company | CHARLESTOWN | For-Profit | 04/03/1995 |
| Sudbury pines hospice | SUDBURY | For-Profit | 12/06/2001 |
| Visiting nurse association of cape cod hospice | HYANNIS | Non-Profit | 04/05/2002 |
| Compassus - southern massachusetts | NORTH ANDOVER | For-Profit | 04/16/2002 |
| Broad reach hospice | CHATHAM | For-Profit | 09/14/2004 |
| Compassus - greater western massachusetts | AUBURN | For-Profit | 12/21/2004 |
| Pioneer valley hospice & palliative care | GREENFIELD | Non-Profit | 03/09/2005 |
Massachusetts hospices — FAQ
- How many Medicare-certified hospices are in Massachusetts?
- 77 Medicare-certified hospices operate in Massachusetts as of the CMS Hospice General Information snapshot (2026-05-07). 57.1% are for-profit — ownership concentration is the documented quality-of-care variable in the hospice policy literature.
- Does Fonteum show hospice star ratings for Massachusetts?
- No — and that is an honest data gap, not an omission. The CMS Hospice General Information file that backs this page carries identity, ownership, and certification only. Hospice quality lives in the separate CAHPS Hospice Survey dataset, and CMS suppressed publicly reported hospice quality measures during the May 2026 → February 2028 transition to the new HOPE assessment. Fonteum renders the fields that exist rather than fabricating a rating.
- What can I learn from this hospice data today?
- For every Massachusetts hospice you get its CMS-certified identity, ownership type, CMS region, and Medicare certification date — enough to map the ownership landscape and track when each provider entered the program. Each row reports those fields directly in the state inventory.
- Where does this hospice data come from and how current is it?
- The displayed fields come from the CMS Hospice General Information file, source-modified 2026-01-08. Fields can be absent; cross-check a consequential hospice record at Medicare.gov.
Compare other facility types
Supported Care Compare facility responses for Massachusetts and other states expose source-and-date fields where the module supplies them; individual fields may be absent or null.