Home health & hospice in Columbia

How many home health, hospice and in-home care agencies are licensed in Columbia?

DPH's data shows 9 licensed home health agencies, 11 hospice programs and 214 in-home care providers with Columbia office addresses in the four areas we map.

Which hospices have Columbia offices?

DPH's data shows these licensed hospice programs with Columbia offices: Abbey Road Hospice, Crescent Hospice, Hadora Hospice, Hands of Hope, Heart of Hospice LLC, Heartsong Hospice, Prisma Health Hospice - Midlands, Pruitthealth Hospice-Columbia, Three Oaks Hospice, VIA Health Partners - Midlands Region, Your Health Palliative Care LLC.

Medicare's hospice benefit covers hospice in a patient's home, a CRCF or a nursing home. Ask each hospice about after-hours response and where inpatient care happens when symptoms cannot be managed at home; the Midlands' licensed inpatient hospice house is in Lexington.

What does in-home care cost in Columbia?

No Columbia figure is published; CareScout's 2025 South Carolina median for a non-medical home care worker is about $31 an hour, about $5,982 a month at 44 hours a week, while Medicare-covered home health visits cost an eligible patient nothing.

Community Choices can pay for personal care and companion care at home for eligible Medicaid members at nursing facility level of care; referrals go to SCDHHS Community Long Term Care at (888) 971-1637.

How do we choose a Columbia home health agency?

Ask whether the agency is Medicare-certified for the services ordered, how soon it can start after discharge, how often the nurse and therapists will come, and who answers the phone after hours; the physician's order defines what Medicare covers.

Every licensed agency appears on the home health and hospice roster, with the number of counties its license covers. An agency that already works with your parent's doctors can make the first weeks after discharge smoother.