Home health, hospice and adult day providers

Which home health agencies and hospices serve the Omaha area?

CMS's datasets list 27 Medicare-certified home health agencies and 15 certified hospices with offices in the five counties, and Nebraska's DHHS roster lists 8 licensed adult day services.

How do home health and hospice differ, and who pays?

Home health brings skilled nursing and therapy visits to a homebound patient under a doctor's plan, usually paid by Medicare; hospice brings a comfort-care team to someone with a life expectancy of six months or less, paid by Medicare's hospice benefit.

Neither provides round-the-clock hourly caregivers. The “CMS patient-care stars” column is CMS's quality of patient care rating for home health agencies, shown only where CMS publishes one. Adult day services are licensed by DHHS and can be paid through the AD Waiver, ENOA's caregiver program or privately.