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Hospitals in Kentucky

Kentucky has 103 licensed hospitals listed on ElderCareCosts across 555 cities. Pick a city below for local pricing and provider listings, or request a personalized shortlist.

103 licensed hospitals listed · 67 with CMS star ratings.

Hospital context in Kentucky

Hospital pages on ElderCareCosts are for discharge planning and local context in Kentucky, not residential care shopping and not a cost-of-care index. Inpatient hospital bills are insurance-negotiated and episode-specific. We do not publish a local hospital cost table.

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CMS rating distribution in Kentucky

CMS overall star ratings for 67 hospitals in Kentucky. We do not re-rank these scores.

CMS star ratings in Kentucky
CMS starsProviders
5 stars5
4 stars11
3 stars22
2 stars21
1 star8

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Kentucky licensing & regulation

State-by-state licensing agency details and how to check a facility's complaint history for Kentucky are coming soon.

Medicaid & local resources in Kentucky

Long-Term Care Ombudsman

Kentucky Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program helps residents of nursing homes, assisted living, and similar settings in Kentucky resolve concerns about care and rights.

Official Ombudsman locator / program page

Source: State LTC Ombudsman.GOV

Medicaid HCBS / LTSS programs

Named programs below are from official state Medicaid agency pages. We list eligibility dollar amounts and wait lists only when a primary source is cited.

  • Home and Community Based Waiver. Kentucky 1915(c) Home and Community Based Waiver for adults 65+ and younger adults with physical/other disabilities (CMS factsheet).
Source: State Medicaid program.GOV

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Cities in Kentucky

Showing the 500 largest of 555 tracked cities.

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Counties in Kentucky

County pages carry the local Area Agency on Aging, the state Medicaid waiver contacts and, for nursing homes, what federal inspectors recorded. Ordered by how many hospitals providers each county holds.

Hospitals by county in Kentucky

Hospitals providers in Kentucky

Sample of licensed hospitals listed for Kentucky. City pages show fuller local inventories.

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Frequently asked questions

How many hospitals are listed in Kentucky?

We currently list 103 licensed hospitals across Kentucky.

Which cities in Kentucky have hospitals listings?

We track 555 Kentucky cities for hospitals. See the city list on this page for options near you.

Past 60 days in Kentucky: 103 added · 194 updated. Most recent change Sep 2. Counts come from our ingestion diffs, not confirmed licensing actions.

How to cite this page

Cite this: According to ElderCareCosts' 2026 index, licensed hospitals in Kentucky are listed with government-sourced data. State median cost not yet published.

APA: ElderCareCosts Research. (n.d.). Hospitals in Kentucky. ElderCareCosts. Retrieved September 17, 2026, from https://www.eldercarecosts.com/hospitals/kentucky/

Chicago: ElderCareCosts Research. "Hospitals in Kentucky." ElderCareCosts. Accessed September 17, 2026. https://www.eldercarecosts.com/hospitals/kentucky/.

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