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Hospice Care in your area

Comfort-focused care for a life-limiting illness, delivered at home, in a facility, or in a dedicated inpatient unit.

Quick answer

New York's Department of Health regulates hospice care through the state's Adult Care Facility and Assisted Living Residence system.

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Hospice is comfort-focused care for a life-limiting illness, generally when a physician expects six months or less. It is delivered wherever the person lives — at home, in assisted living, in a nursing facility, or in a dedicated inpatient unit.

Short answer

We list 0 verified hospice care providers across your metro. Hospice is comfort-focused care for a life-limiting illness, generally when a physician expects six months or less.

Three things worth knowing first

  • Medicare's hospice benefit covers the hospice team, medications related to the terminal diagnosis, and equipment. It does not cover room and board in a facility.
  • Palliative care is not the same thing. It focuses on symptom relief and can run alongside treatment intended to cure, at any stage.
  • You can change hospice providers, and you can revoke hospice and return to curative treatment.
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Verified hospice care across the region

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    Questions families ask

    If my parent is discharged from Huntington Hospital, what senior care options are nearby?

    Huntington Hospital is a Northwell Health facility located directly in the Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, which this site treats as its hub area for senior care research, covering neighborhoods from Huntington Village and Huntington Station to Cold Spring Harbor, Northport, Dix Hills, and Melville. Discharge planning from Huntington Hospital would coordinate with home care agencies, rehabilitation facilities, and assisted living or nursing communities in this immediate area.

    What does Medicare's skilled nursing facility benefit actually require in terms of a prior hospital stay?

    Medicare's skilled nursing facility benefit generally requires that the patient first have a qualifying inpatient hospital stay of at least 3 days before Medicare will cover a subsequent skilled nursing facility stay, and only time spent formally admitted as an inpatient counts toward that requirement, not time spent under observation status. This is a critical distinction for Long Island families navigating a hospital discharge, since a stay that looks identical from the patient's bed can be billed either way.

    Does NYU Langone have Long Island hospital locations, and what should I know about discharge planning there?

    Yes. NYU Langone operates two Long Island hospital campuses: NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, a 591-bed medical center at 259 First Street in Mineola, formerly Winthrop-University Hospital, renamed in November 2020, home to Nassau County's only adult Level 1 Trauma Center and the NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine; and NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk. As with any hospital system, discharge planning is coordinated by staff at the specific campus where a patient is admitted.

    My parent just fell and is in the hospital - what's the first call I should make?

    For families in Nassau or Suffolk County, the Office for the Aging in your parent's home county is a good first call - Nassau County Office for the Aging at 516-227-8900, or Suffolk County Office for the Aging at 631-853-8200. Both function as the local NY Connects access point, a free service that helps families understand care options, eligibility, and next steps after a hospital event, without any cost or obligation.

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