zReports Research Institute · Updated August 2026
Kentucky has 23 active licensed hospices on the state's public file. zReports analyzed CMS hospice certification records to produce a records layer grade for every one, the government's own verdicts, mapped through one fixed rule. No facility can pay to change a score, and the grade is free.
| Statistic | Value |
|---|---|
| Active licensed hospices | 23 |
| Cities covered | 23 |
| Statewide average records layer score | 85 |
| Grade A facilities | 23 (100%) |
| Facilities with a clean record (no deficiencies on file) | 23 (100%) |
| Serious (high severity) findings on the record | 0 |
| Moderate findings on the record | 0 |
#1 Hospice Of The Bluegrass, INC Dba Bluegrass Care N Lexington · A-
#2 Community Hospice Ashland · A-
#3 Hosparus, INC Louisville · A-
#4 Compassionate Care Plus Richmond · A-
#5 Hospice East Winchester · A-
#6 Mercy Health - Hospice, Paducah Paducah · A-
#7 Vna Health At Home 1 London · A-
#8 Hospice Of Lake Cumberland Somerset · A-
#9 Hospice Of Southern Kentucky Bowling Green · A-
#10 Hospice Care Of St Elizabeth Healthcare Edgewood · A-
#11 St Claire Hospice/Palliative Care Morehead · A-
#12 Heritage Hospice, INC Danville · A-
#13 St Anthony'S Hospice INC Henderson · A-
#14 Hospice Of Ohio County Hartford · A-
#15 Hospice Of Hope INC Maysville · A-
#16 Hospice Of Western Kentucky Owensboro · A-
#17 Vna Health At Home Bardstown · A-
#18 Murray Calloway County Hospital Hospice Murray · A-
#19 Appalachian Hospice Care Pikeville · A-
#20 Pennyroyal Hospice Hopkinsville · A-
#21 Hospice Of The Bluegrass, INC. Hazard · A-
#22 Hosparus Western Kentucky Madisonville · A-
#23 T J Samson Community Hospital Home Care Hospice Glasgow · A-
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The free grade on this page contains zero zReports judgment: it maps the state's own published licensing and enforcement verdicts through one fixed rule, applied identically to every hospice in America. Where the record and public reputation diverge, a highly reviewed facility with serious findings on file, the paid Consumer Intelligence Report™ surfaces it through the composite Consumer Z Score™ and our published ten point methodology. Facilities are never contacted and cannot pay to change a score. Read the full methodology →
Hospices in Kentucky are overseen by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), whose certification, inspection, and quality-reporting data is published on the public record. This page is computed from CMS hospice certification records, the government’s own filings, not reviews or advertising.
Kentucky has 23 active licensed hospices on the state's public file, across 23 cities. Every one has a free records layer grade on zReports.
Lexington, with 1 licensed hospices, followed by Ashland (1) and Louisville (1).
The free records layer grade contains zero zReports judgment. It maps the government's own published verdicts, CMS hospice certification records, through one fixed rule, applied identically to every hospice in the country. The paid Consumer Intelligence Report™ adds the composite Consumer Z Score™, which audits the record against public reputation through our published ten point methodology.
Reviews and records are different surfaces. Reviews reflect what visitors chose to write, and can be managed by the business. Inspection and enforcement records are filed by the state, are mandatory, and cannot be edited by the facility. When the two diverge, the record is the surface worth checking. That divergence is exactly what zReports was built to surface.
Rankings refresh whenever Kentucky republishes its licensing data; facility pages carry the records-verified date for each provider. This page was generated from the current file as of August 2026.
No. Facilities are never contacted, never notified, and cannot pay to be listed, delisted, or re-scored. zReports has no business relationship with any facility it grades, independence is the product.
This report was generated from the zReports Consumer Records Database™, a continuously updated database that normalizes official government licensing, inspection, enforcement, ownership, and safety records across multiple federal and state agencies. Every statistic in this report is traceable to its originating public record. Facilities cannot pay to alter scores, rankings, or findings.
Data source: zReports Consumer Intelligence Database™ v2026.08 · Built from: CMS Provider Data Catalog · HHS OIG Exclusions List (LEIE) · Public consumer review signals (audited, never trusted, in the composite Consumer Z Score™) · Proprietary Consumer Z Score™ methodology · Updated: August 2026
APA, zReports Research Institute. (2026). Kentucky Hospice Rankings & Safety Report (v2026.08). zReports.org. https://zreports.org/rankings/hospice/ky
MLA, zReports Research Institute. “Kentucky Hospice Rankings & Safety Report.” zReports.org, v2026.08, August 2026, zreports.org/rankings/hospice/ky.
Plain, Kentucky Hospice Rankings & Safety Report, zReports Research Institute, v2026.08, updated August 2026, zreports.org/rankings/hospice/ky