Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Hawaii with the lowest heart failure death rate
11 Hawaii hospitals ranked by heart failure death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Kuakini Medical Center, Straub Clinic And Hospital, The Queens Medical Center. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Pneumonia death ratelower is better | COPD death ratelower is better | CABG surgery death ratelower is better | Stroke death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National average | 11.1% | 11.9% | 15.2% | 8.6% | 2.4% | 11.9% | 15.0% | ||
| 1 | Kuakini Medical Center | 8.9%, 87th percentile | 11.5%, 62nd percentile | 13.0%, 82nd percentile | — | — | 9.4%, 89th percentile | 14.1%, 91st percentile | Compare Kuakini Medical Center |
| 2 | Straub Clinic And Hospital | 9.3%, 82nd percentile | 10.2%, 93rd percentile | 15.6%, 43rd percentile | 7.7%, 72nd percentile | 2.0%, 69th percentile | 8.5%, 96th percentile | 13.8%, 96th percentile | Compare Straub Clinic And Hospital |
| 3 | The Queens Medical Center | 9.4%, 81st percentile | 12.3%, 32nd percentile | 15.3%, 48th percentile | 8.2%, 58th percentile | 1.6%, 93rd percentile | 10.5%, 71st percentile | 14.3%, 86th percentile | Compare The Queens Medical Center |
| 4 | Pali Momi Medical Center | 9.8%, 73rd percentile | 10.9%, 80th percentile | 14.8%, 56th percentile | 8.9%, 38th percentile | — | 9.6%, 86th percentile | 13.9%, 94th percentile | Compare Pali Momi Medical Center |
| 5 | Hilo Benioff Medical Center | 10.1%, 68th percentile | 10.8%, 83rd percentile | 18.5%, 11th percentile | 7.3%, 83rd percentile | — | 10.2%, 77th percentile | 14.1%, 91st percentile | Compare Hilo Benioff Medical Center |
| 6 | Kaiser Foundation Hospital | 10.5%, 60th percentile | — | 13.1%, 81st percentile | — | — | 10.3%, 75th percentile | 15.3%, 28th percentile | Compare Kaiser Foundation Hospital |
| 7 | Adventist Health Castle | 11.2%, 46th percentile | 11.6%, 58th percentile | 13.7%, 73rd percentile | 11.0%, 6th percentile | — | 8.6%, 96th percentile | 15.1%, 40th percentile | Compare Adventist Health Castle |
| 8 | Kona Community Hospital | 11.3%, 44th percentile | — | 16.7%, 27th percentile | — | — | 10.2%, 77th percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | Compare Kona Community Hospital |
| 9 | North Hawaii Community Hospital, Inc | 11.5%, 39th percentile | — | 12.6%, 86th percentile | — | — | 13.4%, 24th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare North Hawaii Community Hospital, Inc |
| 10 | Wilcox Memorial Hospital | 12.5%, 22nd percentile | — | 13.3%, 79th percentile | — | — | 11.2%, 58th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | Compare Wilcox Memorial Hospital |
| 11 | Maui Memorial Medical Center | 12.8%, 18th percentile | 12.5%, 26th percentile | 19.2%, 7th percentile | 10.8%, 8th percentile | 2.1%, 62nd percentile | 15.9%, 8th percentile | 14.1%, 91st percentile | Compare Maui Memorial Medical Center |
About these rankings
Rankings use the 2026 release of CMS Care Compare data. Hospitals share a rank (“T”) when their values are equal, and only hospitals with a reported value for the sorted measure are ranked. Shading compares each value with every hospital in the country, so it doesn’t change with your filters. Small differences are often not statistically meaningful; use the methodology and glossary for context.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Pneumonia death rate
- 30-day death rate for pneumonia patients.
- COPD death rate
- 30-day death rate for COPD patients.
- CABG surgery death rate
- 30-day death rate for CABG surgery patients.
- Stroke death rate
- 30-day death rate for stroke patients.
- Hospital-wide readmission rate
- Rate of unplanned readmission within 30 days, all conditions. From 2025 CMS reports the Hybrid Hospital-Wide Readmission measure (claims plus EHR data), which replaced the claims-only measure; values are close but not strictly comparable across the change. CMS suppressed it for 2026.. Latest available: 2025 release.