AI Rankings · Snapshot 25 Sep 2026
Top home health and hospice agencies in Pennsylvania, ranked by ChatGPT answers
We asked ChatGPT the questions buyers ask. Heartland Hospice came up most, in 16 of 24 answers.
Since 17 Sep 2026: Bridges Hospice climbed 18 spots
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The Answer Map
Where the 20 most-named home health and hospice agencies sit in ChatGPT's answers
Bubble size = buyer questions it shows up for
The takeaway
St. Mary Home Care and Hospice is the only Leader in ChatGPT's answers in Pennsylvania.
It is named in at least half of ChatGPT's answers and lands near the top.
1 Leaders2 Niche Picks3 Recognized14 On the Radar
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ChatGPT's Shortlist
Which home health and hospice agencies does ChatGPT name most in Pennsylvania?
Home health and hospice agencies deliver skilled medical care at home under a doctor's orders: nursing, physical and occupational therapy, wound care, and hospice care for people at the end of life.
| # | vs last week | Company | Answer Share | Weekly trend | Named in | Answer Rank | Question Reach | On the map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No change | Heartland Hospice no website found yet | 66.7% −8.3 pts | 16 of 24 | #6.9 | 6 of 8 | Recognized | |
| 2 | ▲ 3 | Adoration Hospice | 54.2% −8.3 pts | 13 of 24 | #9.5 | 6 of 8 | Recognized | |
| 3 | No change | St. Mary Home Care and Hospice no website found yet | 50.0% −12.5 pts | 12 of 24 | #2.8 | 5 of 8 | Leaders | |
| 4 | No change | Holisticare Hospice | 50.0% −12.5 pts | 12 of 24 | #5.9 | 5 of 8 | Recognized | |
| 5 | ▼ 3 | Humanitas Hospice | 45.8% −20.8 pts | 11 of 24 | #8.6 | 5 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 6 | No change | AHN Healthcare at Home | 41.7% −8.3 pts | 10 of 24 | #2.8 | 4 of 8 | Niche Picks | |
| 7 | ▲ 5 | Anova Health Care System no website found yet | 37.5% +4.2 pts | 9 of 24 | #3.4 | 4 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 8 | ▲ 2 | Suncrest Hospice | 37.5% −4.2 pts | 9 of 24 | #6.6 | 3 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 9 | ▼ 1 | Full Range Home Health | 29.2% −12.5 pts | 7 of 24 | #3.7 | 3 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 10 | ▲ 4 | CenterWell Home Health | 29.2% | 7 of 24 | #4.3 | 3 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 11 | ▲ 6 | Revolutionary Home Health and Hospice named as Revolutionary Home Health Inc, Revolutionary Home Health | 29.2% +4.2 pts | 7 of 24 | #4.3 | 3 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 12 | ▼ 3 | Amedisys Home Health Care | 29.2% −12.5 pts | 7 of 24 | #5.3 | 3 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 13 | ▲ 2 | Tender Care Hospice PA | 29.2% | 7 of 24 | #8.3 | 4 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 14 | ▼ 1 | Premier Home Care named as Premier Home Care Inc | 25.0% −8.3 pts | 6 of 24 | #6.0 | 3 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 15 | ▲ 18 | Bridges Hospice | 25.0% +12.5 pts | 6 of 24 | #8.8 | 3 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 16 | ▼ 9 | Gentiva Hospice | 20.8% −25.0 pts | 5 of 24 | #8.8 | 4 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 17 | ▲ 1 | VitaCare Home Health Agency | 20.8% −4.2 pts | 5 of 24 | #10.6 | 2 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 18 | ▲ 1 | CarePoint Home Care | 20.8% | 5 of 24 | #12.6 | 2 of 8 | On the Radar | |
| 19 | ▲ 8 | WellSpan VNA Home Care no website found yet | 16.7% +4.2 pts | 4 of 24 | #2.3 | 2 of 8 | Niche Picks | |
| 20 | ▲ 1 | Medi Home Health Agency no website found yet | 16.7% | 4 of 24 | #6.0 | 2 of 8 | On the Radar |
Ranked by Answer Share, the share of ChatGPT's answers that name the company. Answer Rank is where it shows up when named (#1 = named first). Question Reach is how many of the 8 buyer questions it appears for. "vs last week" compares with the 17 Sep 2026 snapshot: spots gained (▲) or lost (▼), and the change in Answer Share.
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What do buyers ask ChatGPT about home health and hospice agencies in Pennsylvania?
The 8 questions we ask ChatGPT, each asked 3 times.
Overall, Heartland Hospice is named most. But ask “What are the best home health and hospice agencies in Pennsylvania?” and St. Mary Home Care and Hospice comes up in 3 of 3 answers.
In ChatGPT's words
How ChatGPT describes the top three
#1 · Heartland Hospice
“Heartland Hospice — York area; primarily hospice/end-of-life care rather than conventional post-hospital rehabilitation.”
#2 · Adoration Hospice
“Adoration Hospice — King of Prussia/Philadelphia suburbs; hospice-focused.”
Where ChatGPT gets its information
The websites behind the answers
To show up on this list, these are the sites ChatGPT is reading.
| Website | Times cited | Share |
|---|---|---|
| pa.gov | 14 | 17% |
| medicare.gov | 9 | 11% |
| careconsidered.com | 7 | 8% |
| cms.gov | 6 | 7% |
| apps.health.pa.gov | 5 | 6% |
| upmc.com | 4 | 5% |
| carerecords.org | 4 | 5% |
| data.cms.gov | 3 | 4% |
| sais.health.pa.gov | 3 | 4% |
| anovahomehealth.com | 3 | 4% |
| Page cited | Times |
|---|---|
| Home Health | Department of Health | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania pa.gov | 9 |
| Hospices in Pennsylvania — CMS Quality & Family Ratings | Care Considered careconsidered.com | 5 |
| Home Health Star Ratings | CMS cms.gov | 4 |
| Home Health Services | UPMC at Home | Pittsburgh PA upmc.com | 3 |
| Home Health State Licensure and/or Federal Medicare Certification | Department of Health | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania pa.gov | 3 |
| Hospice Public Reporting: Background and Announcements | CMS cms.gov | 2 |
| apps.health.pa.gov apps.health.pa.gov | 2 |
| Home health agencies in Pennsylvania — CMS ratings | SeniorCareRating seniorcarerating.com | 2 |
| Home Health Agencies in Pennsylvania — CMS Ratings & Quality Data | RateMyHomeHealth ratemyhomehealth.com | 2 |
| Home Health | Penn Medicine pennmedicine.org | 2 |
The receipts
Every answer, word for word
One full ChatGPT answer for each buyer question, unedited.
“What are the best home health and hospice agencies in Pennsylvania?”
Places ChatGPT showed
- AHN Healthcare at Home · 4.9★ · Home health care service
- St. Mary Home Care and Hospice · 4.8★ · Home health care service
- Anova Health Care System | Home Health Care in Carnegie | Hospice Care in Pennsylvania · 4.5★ · Home health care service
- Amedisys Home Health Care · 4.8★ · Home health care service
- Holisticare Hospice · 4.7★ · Hospice
- Gentiva Hospice · 4.8★ · Hospice
- Suncrest Hospice - Pittsburgh · 5.0★ · Hospice
- Adoration Hospice · 4.9★ · Hospice
Pennsylvania has a large number of home-health and hospice providers, so there isn't one objectively “best” agency statewide. The most useful comparison is by Medicare quality data, patient/family experience, geographic coverage, services, and insurance participation.
Agencies worth putting on your shortlist
| Agency | Type | Pennsylvania coverage / notes |
|---|---|---|
| AHN Healthcare at Home | Home health + hospice | Strong option for Western PA; affiliated with Allegheny Health Network |
| St. Mary Home Care and Hospice | Home health + hospice | Bucks County / Philadelphia-area; affiliated with Trinity Health |
| Anova Health Care System | Home health + hospice + palliative | Western PA; also offers private-pay home care |
| Amedisys Home Health Care | Home health | Large Medicare home-health provider with Pennsylvania locations |
| Holisticare Hospice | Hospice | Southeastern PA; also offers palliative/supportive care |
| Gentiva Hospice | Hospice | Multiple PA locations; broad hospice coverage |
| Suncrest Hospice - Pittsburgh | Hospice | Pittsburgh/Allegheny County area |
| Adoration Hospice | Hospice | King of Prussia / southeastern PA |
These are not ranked, and I wouldn't choose solely from online reviews. Medicare's Care Compare system provides agency-specific quality and patient/family experience information; Pennsylvania also licenses and surveys home-health and hospice agencies.
For hospice specifically, CMS says its public reporting includes measures such as caregiver feedback and willingness to recommend the hospice, and the August 2026 quarterly data refresh is current.
What I'd compare before choosing
- Medicare/CMS quality measures and family survey results
- Whether they serve your exact ZIP code
- Whether they accept the patient's Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, or private insurance
- How quickly they can start care
- 24/7 nurse availability and response times
- For home health: RN, PT, OT, speech therapy, wound care, and aide availability
- For hospice: physician involvement, pain/symptom management, aide hours, social work, chaplain services, respite/inpatient options, and bereavement support
- Whether the agency has experience with the patient's particular condition
Pennsylvania's official provider lists are also useful because they distinguish Medicare-certified home health from ordinary non-medical home-care agencies—a very important distinction when you're looking for skilled nursing or therapy.
If you tell me the Pennsylvania ZIP code (or county) and whether you're looking for home health, hospice, or both, I can narrow this to 5–10 agencies serving that area and compare their current Medicare quality/family-satisfaction data, services, and reviews.
“Which home health and hospice agencies in Pennsylvania are best for patients coming home after a hospital stay?”
Places ChatGPT showed
- AHN Healthcare at Home - Warrendale · 4.9★ · Home health care service
- AHN Healthcare at Home · 4.9★ · Home health care service
- St. Mary Home Care and Hospice · 4.8★ · Home health care service
- Heartland Hospice · 4.9★ · Hospice
- Heartland Hospice · 5.0★ · Hospice
- Adoration Hospice · 4.9★ · Hospice
If you mean patients being discharged from a Pennsylvania hospital and needing skilled nursing, PT/OT, medication management, wound care, or other help at home, I would not pick an agency based simply on online reviews. The most useful comparison is Medicare/CMS quality data + whether the agency serves the patient’s ZIP code + whether it accepts the patient’s insurance + how quickly it can start care.
Pennsylvania has hundreds of Medicare-certified home-health agencies, and the state licenses and surveys home-health agencies for health and safety compliance.
Agencies worth putting on your comparison list
Some established Pennsylvania options include:
- AHN Healthcare at Home - Warrendale — western Pennsylvania; provides both home health and hospice and is particularly oriented toward post-hospital recovery.
- AHN Healthcare at Home — western PA; offers home health, hospice, palliative care and other at-home services.
- St. Mary Home Care and Hospice — Bucks County/Philadelphia region; provides skilled home health as well as hospice and palliative services.
- Heartland Hospice — York area; primarily hospice/end-of-life care rather than conventional post-hospital rehabilitation.
- Heartland Hospice — Chadds Ford/Delaware County area; hospice services.
- Adoration Hospice — King of Prussia/Philadelphia suburbs; hospice-focused.
I would not interpret the Google/business ratings above as evidence that one agency provides better clinical care than another. CMS specifically provides home-health quality and patient-survey ratings for this purpose. Its Quality of Patient Care rating incorporates process and outcome measures, while the patient-survey rating reflects patients' experiences.
For someone coming home from a hospital
I'd ask each agency these questions before accepting the hospital's recommendation:
- Can you start within 24–48 hours of discharge?
- Will an RN come out first, and when?
- Can you provide PT, OT, speech therapy, wound care, IV medications, or home health aides, if needed?
- Does the agency have experience with the patient's particular condition—for example, heart failure, COPD, stroke, joint replacement, diabetes, or complex wounds?
- Does the agency accept the patient's exact Medicare Advantage/commercial insurance plan?
- How quickly can a nurse be reached after hours and on weekends?
- What happens if the patient's condition deteriorates and they need urgent assessment?
- Does the agency coordinate with the patient's primary-care doctor and specialists?
- What is the agency's current CMS Quality of Patient Care and patient-survey rating?
- How many visits are typically provided during the first week after discharge?
For hospice, the questions are somewhat different because hospice is intended for people who meet hospice eligibility requirements and are receiving primarily comfort-focused care. CMS's Hospice Care Compare data includes quality information and caregiver/patient feedback, and CMS recommends using it alongside conversations with physicians and other healthcare professionals.
I can narrow this down considerably
If you give me the Pennsylvania ZIP code (or city) where the patient will be living, plus whether you need regular home health after a hospital stay or hospice, I can compare the agencies that actually serve that area—including CMS ratings, patient experience, services, insurance considerations, and contact information—rather than giving you a statewide list.
“Which home health agencies in Pennsylvania provide skilled nursing and physical therapy at home?”
Places ChatGPT showed
- Full Range Home Health · 5.0★ · Home health care service
- Masonic Village Home Health · 4.7★ · Medical office
- VNC Skilled Home Health Agency · 5.0★ · Home health care service
- Amedisys Home Health Care · 4.8★ · Home health care service
- At Home Rehab LLC · 5.0★ · Home health care service
- CenterWell Home Health · 3.0★ · Home health care service
- CarePine Home Health · 4.0★ · Home health care service
- Penn Medicine Home Health · Home Health Care
- Community Care Home Health · Home health care service
- Reliant Home Health Agency Inc · 4.7★ · Home health care service
Yes. Pennsylvania has hundreds of Medicare-certified home health agencies that provide skilled services in patients' homes. Pennsylvania defines a home health agency as providing skilled nursing plus at least one therapeutic service such as physical therapy, and CMS's current provider dataset specifically identifies agencies that offer nursing and PT.
Here are some agencies that provide both skilled nursing and physical therapy at home:
- Full Range Home Health — Exton / southeastern Pennsylvania; skilled nursing and in-home therapy.
- Masonic Village Home Health — Elizabethtown; skilled nursing, PT, OT and speech therapy.
- VNC Skilled Home Health Agency — Wexford; serves several Western Pennsylvania counties and provides skilled nursing and PT.
- Amedisys Home Health Care — Harrisburg area; skilled nursing and PT among its home-health services.
- At Home Rehab LLC — Southampton / Bucks County; Medicare-certified home health with nursing and rehabilitation services.
- CenterWell Home Health — Stroudsburg/Poconos area; skilled nursing and home-based PT.
- CarePine Home Health — Allentown/Lehigh Valley; skilled nursing and PT at home.
- Penn Medicine Home Health — Lancaster area; Medicare-certified skilled nursing and therapy.
- Community Care Home Health — Monroeville / southwestern Pennsylvania; skilled nursing and PT.
- Reliant Home Health Agency Inc — Folsom / Delaware County; skilled nursing and PT.
Pennsylvania's Department of Health maintains the official licensed-agency list, and its June 2026 data identifies agencies with "Home Health Medicare" certification.
If you tell me the Pennsylvania city or ZIP code where the patient lives, I can narrow this down to agencies that actually serve that area and include Medicare acceptance, Medicaid/private insurance, phone numbers, and CMS quality information.
“Which home health and hospice agencies in Pennsylvania respond fastest after a hospital discharge?”
Places ChatGPT showed
- St. Mary Home Care and Hospice · 4.8★ · Home health care service
- Anova Health Care System | Home Health Care in Carnegie | Hospice Care in Pennsylvania · 4.5★ · Home health care service
- Memorial White Rose Home Health & Hospice · 4.6★ · Hospital
- Family Home Health & Three Rivers Hospice · 5.0★ · Home health care service
- Heartland Hospice · 4.7★ · Hospice
- Serenity Hospice of Pennsylvania · 3.4★ · Hospice
There isn’t a reliable statewide public ranking of Pennsylvania agencies by how quickly they make the first home visit after a hospital discharge. Medicare does publish a home-health measure called “timely initiation of care,” but that is an agency quality measure rather than a live guarantee of how quickly an individual referral will be accepted.
For an actual discharge, the fastest option often depends on county, payer/network, staffing, diagnosis, and whether the referral arrives before discharge. Medicare specifically recommends asking whether the agency can start when needed and whether staff are available nights/weekends.
Pennsylvania agencies worth calling for rapid-start availability
A few agencies with Pennsylvania operations that I found are:
- St. Mary Home Care and Hospice — Newtown/Bucks County; provides both home health and hospice and advertises 24-hour availability.
- Anova Health Care System | Home Health Care in Carnegie | Hospice Care in Pennsylvania — Western Pennsylvania; home health, hospice and palliative care.
- Memorial White Rose Home Health & Hospice — York area; home health and hospice, with hospice support advertised 24/7.
- Family Home Health & Three Rivers Hospice — New Castle/Lawrence County and surrounding western PA.
- Heartland Hospice — Bala Cynwyd/Philadelphia Main Line; hospice.
- Serenity Hospice of Pennsylvania — Bensalem and several other Pennsylvania locations; hospice.
Important: those are examples of agencies serving different parts of Pennsylvania, not a ranking of their response times.
If you give me the Pennsylvania city or ZIP code where the patient will be discharged, plus whether you're looking for home health, hospice, or either, I can narrow this down to agencies in that area and compare their publicly documented timely-start performance, service area, 24/7 intake, and current referral/contact information.
“What are the most reliable home health and hospice agencies in Eastern Pennsylvania?”
Places ChatGPT showed
- St. Mary Home Care and Hospice · 4.8★ · Home health care service
- Full Range Home Health · 5.0★ · Home health care service
If by “reliable” you mean licensed/Medicare-certified, with solid publicly reported quality data and a meaningful local track record, I’d build a shortlist rather than rely on online review scores alone. CMS specifically recommends using its Care Compare data, and Pennsylvania independently licenses and surveys home-health and hospice agencies.
- Heartland Hospice – Chadds Ford: CMS-derived data show 93% of surveyed family caregivers would definitely recommend it, 89% rated their experience 9–10/10, and its care-process score is 96.24 versus a Pennsylvania average of 95.55.
- St. Luke's Hospice: the available CMS-derived data show 87% definitely recommending it, a 4-star family-caregiver rating, and a 100.0 process score.
- Holisticare: its process score is 96.84, above the Pennsylvania average, although its family CAHPS rating is 3 stars/85% definitely recommending. It also says it received the 2025 Hospice CAHPS Honor.
- Family Pillars Hospice in Bethlehem is an interesting example of why I wouldn't choose based on one metric: its family survey results are excellent (5 stars/94% definitely recommend), while its CMS process score is substantially lower at 65.9. Pennsylvania also recorded deficiencies from its May 2025 survey that were subsequently corrected in July 2025.
- Full Range Home Health has a 3/5 CMS quality-of-patient-care rating in the currently available data; its Pennsylvania survey history shows compliance at its December 2023 survey.
What I'd check before choosing
For either home health or hospice, I'd ask each agency:
- Do you routinely serve my exact ZIP code?
- How quickly can you start care?
- Who is available nights/weekends for urgent problems?
- How often will a nurse actually visit?
- Will the same nurses/caregivers generally be assigned?
- What happens if symptoms suddenly worsen?
- Which hospitals, physicians and skilled-nursing facilities do you coordinate with?
- What are your current CMS ratings and recent Pennsylvania survey results?
- Which insurance plans do you accept, and what will Medicare/insurance actually cover?
One particularly important distinction: Medicare-certified home health is skilled medical care (nursing, PT/OT, speech, etc.), whereas ordinary Pennsylvania “home care” can mean non-medical help with bathing, meals, companionship and activities of daily living. Pennsylvania regulates these as different categories.
If you tell me the county or ZIP code in Eastern Pennsylvania (e.g. Bucks, Montgomery, Lehigh, Northampton, Chester, Berks, Lancaster, Delaware, etc.) and whether you need home health, hospice, or both, I can narrow this to 3–5 agencies serving that exact area and compare their current CMS quality data, Pennsylvania inspection history, services, and reviews.
“Who are the best home health and hospice agencies in Western Pennsylvania?”
Places ChatGPT showed
- AHN Healthcare at Home - Warrendale · 4.9★ · Home health care service
- Gallagher Home Care Services · 3.8★ · Home health care service
- Gallagher Hospice, LLC · 4.5★ · Hospice
- Good Samaritan Hospice House In Wexford · 4.7★ · Hospice
- Bridges Hospice · 4.7★ · Hospice
- Anova Health Care System | Home Health Care in Carnegie | Hospice Care in Pennsylvania · 4.5★ · Home health care service
- Amedisys Home Health Care · 4.8★ · Home health care service
- Suncrest Hospice - Pittsburgh · 5.0★ · Hospice
If by “best” you mean agencies worth putting on a shortlist based on regional presence, Medicare participation, service breadth, and current local information, I’d start with these. There isn’t a single authoritative “best agency” ranking, and the right choice can depend heavily on the patient’s county, diagnosis, insurance, and whether you need skilled home health versus hospice.
Strong Western Pennsylvania options
- AHN Healthcare at Home - Warrendale — A major regional option for both home health and hospice. AHN currently lists hospice service across Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango, Washington and Westmoreland counties.
- UPMC Home Healthcare / Family Hospice — Another large, integrated option. UPMC Home Healthcare serves a particularly broad footprint across southwestern, central and northwestern Pennsylvania, while Family Hospice covers much of southwestern PA.
- Gallagher Home Care Services / Gallagher Hospice, LLC — A Pittsburgh-area, family-owned organization offering both home health and hospice. Gallagher's home-health service area includes Allegheny and several contiguous counties.
- Good Samaritan Hospice House In Wexford — Particularly worth considering if inpatient hospice is important. Good Samaritan also provides hospice services in the home and is part of Concordia Lutheran Ministries.
- Bridges Hospice — A Pittsburgh-area hospice provider with a broad interdisciplinary hospice model.
- Anova Health Care System | Home Health Care in Carnegie | Hospice Care in Pennsylvania — Offers home health, hospice, palliative care and private-duty home care, which can be useful if the patient's needs are changing.
- Amedisys Home Health Care — A significant option for skilled home health, including nursing and rehabilitation; it has southwestern Pennsylvania locations.
- Suncrest Hospice - Pittsburgh — A hospice-only option serving Pittsburgh and surrounding communities.
One important distinction
If you need home health, you're generally looking for skilled clinical services such as nursing, PT, OT, speech therapy, wound care, medication management, etc. Pennsylvania licenses these agencies and Medicare-certified agencies are subject to federal quality/outcome requirements.
If you need hospice, the decision is different: responsiveness, 24/7 availability, symptom-management expertise, caregiver support, inpatient/respite options, and the agency's ability to cover your particular location become especially important.
For example, UPMC Family Hospice has an inpatient hospice unit in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood, while AHN and other providers offer hospice in homes and facilities.
If this is for a specific patient
I can make this much more useful by comparing 5–8 agencies that actually serve the patient's location and looking at things such as:
- Medicare quality/outcome data
- Hospice vs. home-health specialization
- 24/7 nursing availability
- inpatient hospice availability
- caregiver/respite support
- therapy and wound-care capabilities
- service area
- nonprofit vs. for-profit status
- current patient/family reviews
- insurance acceptance
If you give me the county or ZIP code in Western PA and tell me whether you need home health, hospice, or both, I can narrow it down.
“Which home health and hospice agencies in Pennsylvania have the best Medicare star ratings?”
Yes. I checked the latest available CMS/Medicare data for Pennsylvania. One important distinction: home health and hospice use different Medicare quality ratings, so I would not combine them into one overall ranking.
Home health agencies
CMS's current Pennsylvania data show 8 agencies with a 5-star Quality of Patient Care rating and another 18 with 4.5 stars.
The 5-star agencies I found are:
- WellSpan VNA Home Care — York
- CenterWell Home Health — Lancaster
- VNA Alliance — Meadville
- Home Health Care Professionals — Olyphant
- Care Plus Home Health Services, Inc. — Washington
- Premier Home Care Inc. — Huntingdon Valley
- Medi Home Health Agency — State College
- Revolutionary Home Health Inc. — Quakertown
- Homeland Homehealth — Harrisburg
There is a discrepancy between current secondary listings: one current CMS-derived database reports 8 agencies, while another lists 9, apparently because of multiple/updated agency records. I'd therefore verify the specific agency on Medicare Care Compare before making a final choice.
CMS's Quality of Patient Care rating is based on seven measures involving timely start of care, improvement in mobility/bathing/breathing/medication management, and potentially preventable hospitalizations. It is updated quarterly.
There's also a separate patient-experience (HHCAHPS) star rating. An agency can have, for example, a 4-star clinical quality rating and a 5-star patient-survey rating, so it's worth looking at both.
Hospice agencies
Hospice is different: Medicare publishes CAHPS Hospice Survey/family-caregiver ratings as well as quality-of-care/process measures. Current Pennsylvania data show numerous agencies with 5-star family-caregiver ratings.
Examples of Pennsylvania hospices currently showing 5 stars from family caregivers include:
- Commonwealth Hospice of Berwick — Forty Fort — 5 stars; 96% would definitely recommend; CMS process score 100.
- WellSpan Hospice Services — Lewisburg — 5 stars; 95% would definitely recommend; process score 98.65.
- Hospice of Warren County — Warren — 5 stars; 96% would definitely recommend.
- Hospice of Crawford County — Meadville — 5 stars; 95% would definitely recommend.
- Hospice of the Sacred Heart — Moosic — 5 stars; 93% would definitely recommend.
- Hospice Program/VNA of Hanover and Spring Grove — Hanover — 5-star patient/family rating and 4.5-star quality-of-care rating in the CMS-derived data.
- OSPTA Hospice — Belle Vernon — 5 stars; 92% would definitely recommend; process score 97.01.
- Traditional Hospice — Dunmore — 5 stars; 94% would definitely recommend.
- WellSpan VNA Home Care — Lebanon — 5 stars; 89% would definitely recommend; process score 96.73.
- Family Hospice — Erie — current CMS-derived data show 5 stars for both overall and patient satisfaction and 5 stars for quality of care.
One caution
A 5-star Medicare rating isn't an overall endorsement or guarantee of care. CMS itself says the ratings cover specific quality measures and should be considered alongside the individual measures and other information.
If you give me the Pennsylvania ZIP code or county where the patient will receive care, I can narrow this to the agencies that actually serve that area and compare their Medicare stars, patient-survey ratings, hospitalization measures, ownership, and service coverage side-by-side.
“Which family-owned or locally owned home health and hospice agencies in Pennsylvania do families and discharge planners trust?”
Places ChatGPT showed
- Anova Health Care System | Home health Care in New Castle | Elderly Care Services in Pennsylvania · 5.0★ · Home health care service
- Revolutionary Home Health and Hospice · 4.2★ · Association / Organization
If by “trusted” you mean locally/family owned, established in Pennsylvania, and supported by publicly available quality/family-feedback information, there are several worth putting on a discharge-planner/family shortlist. I would not treat any single rating as proof that an agency is “the best,” because experience varies by branch, clinician, payer, and geography.
Pennsylvania agencies worth investigating
- Anova Health Care System — Western Pennsylvania
- Anova explicitly identifies itself as family-owned and operated and provides home health, hospice, palliative care, and in-home care.
- Its model emphasizes continuity between hospital discharge, home health, palliative care, and hospice, plus 24/7 on-call management.
- It has multiple Western PA locations, including Carnegie, Beaver, Charleroi, New Castle and Butler. Pennsylvania's 2026 licensing records show active home-care licenses at several of those locations.
- Particularly relevant if you're looking in Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, Washington, Fayette, Lawrence or surrounding counties.
- Revolutionary Home Health and Hospice — Eastern/Northeastern Pennsylvania
- The company describes itself as locally owned and woman-owned, Medicare/Medicaid certified and CHAP accredited, with both home health and hospice.
- It has a substantial Eastern PA service area, including Bucks, Berks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia and several Northeastern counties.
- Pennsylvania's current licensing records show active Revolutionary home-health locations.
- Personal Home Healthcare and Hospice — Blakely / Northeastern PA
- This is another independent-looking local option worth examining. Its own site says it provides home care and hospice and currently reports a 5-star Medicare rating.
- CMS-derived Pennsylvania data also lists Personal Home Healthcare and Hospice among the state's 5-star home-health agencies.
- There is an important qualification: Pennsylvania Department of Health records show that a December 2024 relicensure survey identified deficiencies that were subsequently corrected following follow-up surveys in February 2025.
- In other words, I'd look at the underlying survey history, not just the star rating.
A useful way to define “trusted”
For a family or hospital discharge planner, I'd look for four things simultaneously:
- Ownership: genuinely family/local rather than merely having a local office.
- Regulatory standing: current Pennsylvania licensure and recent survey history.
- Patient/family experience: CMS caregiver experience measures, recommendations, complaints and reviews.
- Operational reliability: ability to accept the referral, start care promptly, provide after-hours coverage, communicate with the discharging facility, and maintain staffing.
Pennsylvania requires home-health agencies to be licensed by the Department of Health, while Medicare-certified agencies undergo additional federal certification/surveys. Hospice agencies are similarly state licensed and may be Medicare certified. Medicare also specifically notes that patients have a choice of Medicare-certified home-health agencies, subject to availability and insurance-network restrictions.
One important distinction: I would not automatically equate “family-owned” with “better.” Ownership is useful for identifying the type of organization you're seeking, but the more meaningful question for discharge planning is whether the agency consistently provides fast starts of care, reliable staffing, good communication, and strong patient outcomes.
If you tell me which Pennsylvania counties or cities you care about (e.g., Pittsburgh/Allegheny, Philadelphia suburbs, Lehigh Valley, Lancaster, Harrisburg, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre), I can build a county-by-county shortlist of locally/family-owned home health + hospice agencies, including ownership, Medicare quality information, family experience, service area, and what discharge planners appear to have access to.
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We asked ChatGPT (web search on, United States) each of the 8 buyer questions 3 times: 24 answers, collected 25 Sep 2026.
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