Websites for home health agencies, hospices and nursing homes: ready for Section 504
Families and discharge planners judge an agency by how easy it is to refer and enquire. We rebuild home health, hospice and nursing home sites so referral forms, service areas and admission documents work for everyone, ahead of the Section 504 deadline.
What’s at stake for home health and hospice
- Clearly covered
- Providers paid under Medicare Part A or by Medicaid receive federal financial assistance, so the Section 504 rule applies, from 11 May 2027 for organisations with 15 or more employees.12
- Admission packets and old PDFs
- Documents posted before the deadline are only exempt if nobody uses them to get care, so admission packets families download still have to be accessible.3
- Health details in referral forms
- Referral and admissions forms collect health information, and HHS has warned providers about tracking technologies on pages like these.4
What we build instead
- Referral and admissions forms that work with a keyboard and a screen reader, with no tracking scripts.
- Service area pages that list counties and towns in text, not only on a map.
- Careers pages and applications that work for every applicant.
A working example: Harbor Dental
A two-location family practice with online booking, clear treatment prices and new-patient forms. The business is fictional; the site, its speed and its accessibility are real.
- Mobile
- 95
- Accessibility
- 100
- JavaScript
- 11.4 KB
- Pages
- 30
Lighthouse on a phone, recorded on October 28, 2026.
Open Harbor Dental
Fixed prices, hosting included
Every quote is fixed after the free scan. Hosting on Cloudflare’s free tier costs nothing.
Launch
Up to 10 pages. Clinics, studios, practices.
from $2,900
Practice
Up to 40 pages, forms, booking, multi-location.
from $6,500
Catalogue
Hundreds to thousands of product or listing pages.
from $12,000
Care
Optional, after launch: monitoring, monthly edits and a person on call.
$149 a month
Guides for home health and hospice
- Section 504 websites for home health agencies, hospices and nursing homes
Medicare-certified agencies and homes are clearly covered by the Section 504 website rule. What families and referrers need, and what to fix first.
- A Section 504 website checklist for practice managers
Seven steps to get a practice website, booking and forms ready for the Section 504 deadline, with a timeline back from 11 May 2027.
- What Section 504 covers on a practice website: booking, forms, portals
The rule covers what patients use, including vendor booking, intake forms and portals. What's in scope, the five exceptions, and what to ask vendors.
Or read the questions owners ask us.