Hospital · Critical access hospital
Who owns Kau Hospital?
1 Kamani Street · Pahala, HI · 96777
Overview
Beds21
Discharges1cost report 2025
Occupancy79%inpatient days ÷ bed days
Employees (FTE)86
Kau Hospital is a critical access hospital in Pahala, Hawaii, operated by Kau Hospital. Hawaii County has 5 hospitals, 7 nursing homes and 3 urgent care centers.
Ownership
Kau Hospital is operated by Kau Hospital, part of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.
- Operator
- Kau Hospital
- Owner group
- Hawaii Health Systems Corporation
- Ownership type
- Government (state)
- Sources
- CMS Hospital Enrollments and All Owners (PECOS): hospital ownership graph · 2026-10-25
- CMS record · 2024
- Company website · 2026
Ownership history
Every dated change of operator and owner for Kau Hospital, with the source for each.
Full ownership tree of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation
Every entity between this facility and its ultimate owner, with ownership percentages and dates.
Finances
From the hospital's Medicare cost report, fiscal year ending 2025.
| Net patient revenue | $49.9M |
| Operating expenses | $67.7M |
| Net income | $3.3M |
| Net income as a share of net patient revenue | 6.7% |
| Uncompensated care cost | $76K |
| Charity care cost | $2K |
| Medicaid net revenue | $3.8M |
Payer mix by inpatient days (2025)
- Medicaid 73.1%
- Commercial and other 22.8%
- Medicare 4.1%
Location and market
- Address
- 1 Kamani Street · Pahala, HI · 96777
- County
- Hawaii County
- State
- Hawaii
Hospitals in the county5
Nursing homes7
Urgent care centers3
Sources and identifiers
- Operator: CMS Hospital Enrollments and All Owners (PECOS): hospital ownership graph · CMS record · Company website
- Finances and payer mix: CMS hospital cost reports (HCRIS), fiscal year 2025
- Ownership type and beds: CMS Provider of Services file
- Location: CMS and Census Bureau geography
- CMS certification number
- 121301
- NPI
- 1558441311
- Last confirmed
- 2026-10-23
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