347 North Kuakini Street, Honolulu, HI, 96817 · (808) 536-2236
Beds
170
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 2 of 5
Net patient revenue
$152.6M
FY 2025
Net income
-$24.7M
Patient care margin -25.4%
Discharges
3,639
Occupancy 44.5%
Clinicians
286
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $152.6M | $191.3M | -25.4% | -$24.7M | 3,639 | $314K | 24.3% | 0.1% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 11.5% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 8.9% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.2% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 13% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 9.4% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $149.0M | $178.0M | -19.4% | -$567K | 3,490 | $303K | 23.4% | 0.1% |
| 2023 | $144.7M | $168.0M | -16.1% | -$4.9M | 3,062 | $318K | 25.2% | 0.5% |
| 2022 | $140.4M | $156.8M | -11.7% | -$996K | 2,873 | $274K | 27.6% | 0.0% |
| 2021 | $135.5M | $168.6M | -24.4% | -$5.4M | 2,822 | $1.5M | 28.1% | 0.3% |
| 2020 | $130.3M | $160.7M | -23.3% | -$4.9M | 3,059 | $337K | 32.2% | 0.1% |
| US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 15.3% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.4% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5.3% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.1% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 3.7% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.14 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.31 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 1.53 | US median 0.48 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 1.19 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 79% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 75% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 2 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 44% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 61% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 76% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 58% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 2% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 149 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 8% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 65% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 64% | US median 79% |
| 51 |
| $35,647.31 |
| $14,760.76 |
| $14,289.25 |
| DRG 280 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 38 | $52,737.55 | $13,723.97 | $12,400.10 |
| DRG 853 INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC | 31 | $160,882.55 | $47,932.19 | $40,556.82 |
| DRG 193 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH MCC | 23 | $52,380.57 | $11,609.17 | $9,867.73 |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 21 | $63,033.90 | $10,818.62 | $10,022.34 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 17 | $43,257.53 | $9,040.82 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 064 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH MCC | 16 | $59,615.56 | $18,280.69 | $15,695.20 |
| DRG 481 HIP AND FEMUR PROCEDURES EXCEPT MAJOR JOINT WITH CC | 16 | $46,368.31 | $19,287.00 | $15,801.33 |
| DRG 378 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH CC | 13 | $39,263.38 | $7,850.00 | $7,294.77 |
| DRG 640 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC | 12 | $49,991.92 | $11,247.67 | $10,642.23 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 12 | $46,776.50 | $15,371.50 | $13,076.55 |
| DRG 377 GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE WITH MCC | 12 | $56,039.17 | $15,403.67 | $14,301.50 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 145 | 134 | $2,508.27 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 83 | 81 | $6,595.26 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 57 | 54 | $1,430.99 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 56 | 56 | $2,860.18 | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5091 Level 1 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures | 40 | 37 | $3,492.93 | $2,930.15 |
| APC 5092 Level 2 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures | 34 | 34 | $5,797.44 | $4,981.95 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 28 | 28 | $1,740.67 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 27 | 25 | $2,920.87 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 25 | 21 | $1,413.86 | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 22 | 22 | $5,280.16 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5191 Level 1 Endovascular Procedures | 21 | 21 | $2,690.14 | $2,207.96 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 18 | 18 | $2,599.26 | $2,141.49 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
| Company | Payments | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $2,028 |
| Stryker Corporation SYK | 1 | $671 |
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
Kuakini Medical Center is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Honolulu, HI with 170 beds, part of Kuakini Health System and a 4-star overall rating.
Kuakini Medical Center in Honolulu, HI has 170 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 212 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 3,639 inpatients that year, with 44.5% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Kuakini Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $152.6M and operating expenses of $191.3M, a margin on patient care of -25.4%. After other income and expenses its net income was -$24.7M (-14.8% of revenue), so it lost money that year.
Kuakini Medical Center is part of Kuakini Health System, a health system with 1 hospitals based in Honolulu, HI. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Kuakini Medical Center has an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 2 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 1 death rate measures are better and 0 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Kuakini Medical Center provides emergency services.
286 Medicare clinicians list Kuakini Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology, Nephrology.
In 2024, Kuakini Medical Center had 510 Medicare inpatient stays in 14 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 196 stays; Medicare paid $17,864.16 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $2,699 in payments to Kuakini Medical Center as a teaching hospital ($2,699 general and - for research) from 2 companies.