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Home Care Market — Mississippi

Researching: Official source and access being evaluated.
The official source and access method are being evaluated. No figures are published. Mississippi licenses home care providers as “Home Health Agency”. This profile records who licenses home care in Mississippi, which official records exist and where coverage stands.
State license term
Home Health Agency
Official sources
2
Identified by research; none configured yet
Research verification
Oct 4, 2026
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Coverage status

Current status: Researching. Next: Confirm access to the official source, its fields and its update cadence, then build and test a connector. No date is promised.

  1. Source research(completed)Oct 4, 2026

    Verified by loading the official page
  2. Connector built(in progress)In progress

    Access, fields and cadence confirmed, then a connector is built for the source.
  3. Test ingestion(not started)

    Official file retrieved, stored unchanged and parsed.
  4. Output review(not started)

    Changes compared to the source by hand on a sample of records before anything is published.
  5. Beta, then Live(not started)

    Figures publish with a Beta label first. Live requires a verified source, repeatable ingestion and reviewed output.

Official sources

From HomeCareIntent's source research. Cadence is quoted as the source states it, separate from how often HomeCareIntent checks.

Federal CMS data covers Medicare-certified home health agencies only and is not used as non-medical home care coverage.

Licensing authority

  • Mississippi Division of Medicaid

    Per secondary sources, oversees Medicaid personal care / waiver providers through provider requirements. Not verified on an official page.

  • Mississippi State Department of Health(opens in a new tab)

    Bureau of Health Facilities Licensure and Certification

    Licenses and/or certifies Home Health Agencies and Hospices (plus residential Personal Care Homes, which are facilities, not in-home care).

Definitions: how Mississippi names home care

State license term
Home Health Agency
Non-medical licensing
No state license for non-medical home care was found.
License types
  • Home Health Agency (counted)
  • Hospice (not counted)
  • Personal Care Home (residential) (not counted)Residential assisted-living-type facility per MSDH definitions; not in-home care.
Notes
Non-medical in-home personal care/companion agencies do not appear among MSDH's regulated facility types (directory table of contents); secondary sources state they are not licensed. Do not confuse 'Personal Care Home' (residential) with in-home personal care.

Terminology varies by state. HomeCareIntent uses each state's own term on its pages and maps it to a common category. Glossary

What the Index will publish for Mississippi

Fixed definitions, applied the same way in every state once it is Live.

Agencies tracked
Home care organizations holding at least one active license of a type the state's own rules define as relevant. Hospice-only organizations are excluded.
New agencies (30 and 90 days)
Organizations first licensed, or first detected, inside the trailing window. Shown only after HomeCareIntent has observed the whole window.
Licensing events (30 days)
New licenses and locations, closures, status, administrator, licensee and address changes. Dated by the source where it publishes a date.
New agencies per month
A 12-month series. Months before HomeCareIntent's history for a state begins are marked “Not tracked,” never drawn as zero.
Top markets
Cities ranked by tracked organizations. Cities with fewer than three are not ranked.

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