Hospice Care in West Pittston, Pennsylvania
We're still building out our hospice care directory for West Pittston, PA. Browse nearby cities or the Pennsylvania page while we finish adding local providers.
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How hospice costs work in West Pittston
For people enrolled in the Medicare hospice benefit, covered hospice services are generally about $0 out of pocket: nursing, aides, medications related to the terminal illness, medical equipment, and grief support. That is a benefit design fact, not a local price quote for West Pittston, PA.
- Room and board is separate. If your parent is in a nursing home or assisted living while on hospice, Medicare hospice does not pay the facility rent. The family, Medicaid, or long-term care insurance usually covers that.
- When families do pay: care unrelated to the hospice diagnosis, private-duty extras the hospice does not cover, or hospice outside Medicare (rare private-pay arrangements). Always ask what is billed to whom.
- Official overview: Medicare.gov hospice care.
Hospice Care in West Pittston
We don't have licensed hospice providers listed for West Pittston, PA yet.
Nearby cities are linked below.
Also serving West Pittston
Hospice care comes to the home, so agencies based one town over often serve West Pittston; their licensed office is simply in a different city. These 10 are based nearby, listed by office location, nearest first. They are separate from the licensed-in-West Pittston count above. Always confirm they cover your address.
Commonwealth Hospice of Berwick
Pathways Healthcare
Hospice of the Sacred Heart
Traditional Hospice
Allied Services Hospice LLC
Compassionate Care Hospice of Northwestern Pennsylvania, LLC
Home Health Care Professionals and Hospice
Personal Home Healthcare and Hospice
Maylath Valley Health Systems INC
Ordered by distance from West Pittston, never by who pays. Office location is shown on every card.
In the last 365 days: 3 newly licensed. Counts come from our ingestion diffs, not a complete state registry dump.
Free local help worth saving
West Pittston, in Luzerne County, has about 4,679 residents. About 1,030 of them (22%) are 65 or older. The median household income is $63,706.
Source: US Census Bureau- Luzerne-Wyoming County AAA(570) 822-1158luzernecounty.org
Area Agency on Aging serving this city.
- Pennsylvania Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programltcombudsman.org
State Long-Term Care Ombudsman program.
- APPRISE (Pennsylvania SHIP)1-877-881-6388insurance.pa.gov
State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP).
- PA Link to Aging and Disability Resources1-800-753-8827aging.pa.gov
Statewide help for older adults, people with disabilities and caregivers.
- Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Centerva.gov
VA Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre.
- Community HealthChoicesOfficial program page
Can help pay for care if your parent qualifies.
National helplines, including the Eldercare Locator and 211, are listed on paying for care.
Veterans & surviving spouses: VA Aid & Attendance can help wartime veterans who qualify. How Aid & Attendance works →
Questions families ask
We don't have enough local data for West Pittston, PA yet to publish reliable FAQs. Check back as we add providers and cost data.
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Reading up first? Hospice Care across Pennsylvania → · Hospice vs Home Health Care →
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