8 Home Health Agencies in Honolulu Hawaii Directory

For Honolulu families weighing care options for an aging parent or a loved one recovering at home, the choice just got clearer—and murkier at the same time. State records show eight licensed home health agencies operating within Honolulu city limits, with nine across Honolulu County as a whole, according to data Being Patient compiled from the Hawaii Office of Health Care Assurance. Yet three of the city’s providers—Kahua Home Health Services, Kimura Home Health, and Neogen Care—still carry only limited public information because they have not claimed their directory listings, leaving families to sort through phone numbers and addresses without the fuller details that claimed profiles provide.

Being Patient reported that its Care Directory, updated Wednesday, July 1, pulls directly from Hawaii Office of Health Care Assurance records to list every provider holding a state license, regardless of whether the agency pays for placement or has verified its page. The directory currently shows four listings when sorted by “Most information first,” a setting that pushes provider-supplied details above bare-bones entries, while paid placements are labeled “Sponsored” and never rank above organic results. For the three unclaimed Honolulu agencies, that means the public record stops at a street address and a phone number: Kahua Home Health Services at 1150 S. King Street, Suite 404, reachable at (808) 389-8294; Kimura Home Health at 1001 Dillingham Blvd, Suite 317, at (808) 221-8425; and Neogen Care at 770 Kapiolani Blvd, Suite 714, at (808) 808-6364.

A home health care agency—whether a public agency, private organization, or a subdivision of one—must primarily provide skilled nursing alongside therapeutic services such as physical therapy, speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, medical social services, and home health aide care. State law requires these organizations to maintain policies set by a professional group that includes at least one physician and one registered nurse, to provide supervision of services by a physician or registered nurse, to keep clinical records on every patient, and to hold a license meeting state or local standards. This difference is important for Honolulu residents since the city’s care system includes 50 in-home care providers, 18 nursing homes, 9 assisted living facilities, 6 hospice providers, 177 adult foster care homes, and 4 elder law attorneys—all serving similar populations but governed by different rules and expertise.

A doctor’s order is required before services begin. Once the physician refers the patient, the agency schedules an in-home appointment to assess needs, ask health questions, and coordinate directly with the doctor. The agency staff then keeps the physician updated on progress, and patients should expect visits as often as the doctor ordered. For Honolulu families, that means the eight licensed agencies in the directory are the gatekeepers to skilled, physician-supervised care delivered in the home—not merely companion or chore assistance.

Geography shapes access as well. While Honolulu city proper lists eight agencies, the wider Honolulu County tally reaches nine, and nearby Wailuku adds three more home health options, giving families on Oahu’s western side additional choices within reasonable driving distance. The directory’s sorting tools—by information depth, alphabetical order, or distance—are designed to help users cut through that geography, though the three unclaimed Honolulu listings remain stuck at the bottom of the “most information” view until the providers themselves update their profiles.

Being Patient is explicit about the limits of its listings: a directory entry is not an endorsement, and the organization does not inspect providers. Its combined rating system draws from Medicare star ratings and online review ratings, metrics that providers cannot pay to alter. That methodology matters in a market where eight city agencies compete for the same patients, because it means the rankings families see reflect federal quality data and public reviews rather than advertising spend. Still, the unclaimed status of Kahua, Kimura, and Neogen means those three have not supplied the additional operational details—service areas, specialties, or staffing specifics—that claimed listings typically display, leaving a gap in the public record that families must fill by calling the agencies directly.

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