Hawaii hospitals
Hawaii hospitals: racial-equity scorecards
22 Medicare-certified hospitals serve Hawaii, represented by the Healthcare Association of Hawaii. This page aggregates CMS Hospital Compare measures — overall star rating, mortality / safety / readmission / patient-experience measure-group performance — for each of those facilities.
Hawaii's Black population is small enough that state-level race-stratified hospital measures are frequently cell-suppressed. The Queen's Health System runs the state's major inpatient capacity alongside Hawaii Pacific Health.
The state's recognized safety-net hospital systems — the facilities that carry a disproportionate share of Medicaid and uninsured admissions — include: The Queen's Medical Center (Honolulu), and Hawaii Pacific Health (Kapiolani, Straub, Pali Momi, Wilcox). Each has its own detail page below.
Two editorial notes on scope. First, CMS does not publish a racial-disparity scorecard per-hospital at national scale; what we surface below is the facility's overall CMS rating paired with any race-stratified metric we could find in a primary source (AHRQ Disparities Atlas, a state discharge scorecard, or a published study). Second, we do not rank hospitals as 'worst for Black patients' without a primary-source citation — the legal standard for that claim requires it.
Safety-net systems in Hawaii
- The Queen's Medical Center (Honolulu)
- Hawaii Pacific Health (Kapiolani, Straub, Pali Momi, Wilcox)
All 22 hospitals in Hawaii
Hale Ho'Ola Hamakua
Honokaa
Kahuku Medical Center
Kahuku
Kapiolani Medical Center For Women & Children
Honolulu
Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital
Waimea
Kau Hospital
Pahala
Kohala Hospital
Kapaau
Kula Hospital
Kula
Lanai Community Hospital
Lanai City
Molokai General Hospital
Kaunakakai
Samuel Mahelona Memorial Hospital
Kapaa
Shriners Hospital For Children
Honolulu
Adventist Health Castle
Kailua · AdventHealth
Kuakini Medical Center
Honolulu
Pali Momi Medical Center
Aiea
Straub Clinic And Hospital
Honolulu
Kaiser Foundation Hospital
Honolulu · Kaiser Permanente
Maui Memorial Medical Center
Wailuku
The Queens Medical Center
Honolulu
Hilo Benioff Medical Center
Hilo
Kona Community Hospital
Kealakekua
North Hawaii Community Hospital, Inc
Kamuela
Wilcox Memorial Hospital
Lihue
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Data sources
- CMS Hospital Compare — Hospital General Information (data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/xubh-q36u).
- Healthcare Association of Hawaii — state hospital trade body (https://hah.org/).
- Hawaii Department of Health — Office of Health Care Assurance — state hospital licensing + oversight (https://health.hawaii.gov/ohca/).
- AHRQ National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr).
- CDC Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System state releases (cdc.gov/pmss).
- The Leapfrog Group hospital safety grades (leapfroggroup.org).
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