


The following offer comprehensive hospice services for children younger than 19 who have a prognosis of six months or less should the disease run its normal course and who are receiving care directed at comfort rather than cure. Services include nursing care, social services, spiritual care, personal care, volunteer support, all medications and medical equipment relating to the terminal illness, and bereavement support for the family. All health plans in Massachusetts, including MassHealth and private insurers, include a hospice benefit. Hospices offering Pediatric Hospice Care Community VNA Hospice Care Cranberry Hospice and Palliative Care HealthAlliance Home Health & Hospice Hospice Gardner Visiting Nurse Association Hospice Hospice of Boston and Greater Brockton Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Hospice of the Good Sheperd Hospice of the North Shore and Greater Boston Hospice & Palliative Care: A Program of VNA of Southeastern MA HospiceCare in the Berkshires Merrimack Valley Hospice UMass Memorial Hospice VNA Care Hospice VNA Hospice of Greater Lowell VNA of Cape Cod Hospice VNA & Hospice of Northern Berkshire
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