Best Nursing Homes in Kailua, HI

Overview of Maunalani Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Maunalani Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is a nursing home in Honolulu, Hawaii, offering skilled nursing, nursing care, and palliative care. Skilled nursing and nursing care provide licensed nursing support on site around the clock. Palliative care focuses on comfort and symptom relief alongside serious illness, making this a possible fit for a resident who needs ongoing nursing support and comfort-focused care.

Located in Kaimuki, the home has 100 beds and an 87% occupancy rate. It is serving residents while some beds remain unoccupied. Total nurse staffing is 5 hours and 3 minutes per resident per day, representing the nursing time available for each resident across a day.

Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay are accepted. Families can therefore consider the payment method that applies to the resident’s care and financial circumstances, including public program options or paying directly.

Overview of Aloha Nursing and Rehab Center

Aloha Nursing and Rehab Center in Kaneohe, HI, delivers 24-hour skilled nursing, hospice, palliative, and respite care. Licensed nurses handle continuous medical supervision and symptom relief for individuals facing serious illnesses or end-of-life care, while short-term respite stays allow primary caregivers to take necessary breaks.

Housing 141 beds, the center provides both private individual rooms and shared semi-private layouts. Daily hands-on nursing time averages 4 hours and 35 minutes per resident. Health services feature physical rehabilitation and advanced wound care management. Resident amenities include organized therapeutic recreation, pet therapy sessions, and a full-service beauty and barber salon.

Accepted payment options encompass Medicare, Medicaid, and private funds. Medicare handles qualifying post-hospital rehabilitation, while Medicaid assists residents who qualify for long-term care funding.

Families reviewing specialized nursing care or short-term rehab options can get in touch with Aloha Nursing and Rehab Center to check current bed availability or arrange a facility tour.

Overview of Avalon Care Center – Honolulu

Avalon Care Center, Honolulu is a nursing home in Honolulu, HI, providing skilled nursing care, short term rehabilitation, and post acute care. Licensed nurses are on site around the clock, so the facility may suit someone who needs rehabilitation or post acute care with ongoing nursing support. The home has 108 beds.

Total nurse staffing is 4 hours and 3 minutes per resident per day, representing the amount of nursing time assigned to each resident across a day. On site therapy staff allow residents to receive rehabilitation at the facility rather than arranging therapy elsewhere, and an Avalon transportation network is also available. Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay are accepted: Medicare can cover eligible short term skilled care, Medicaid may help when resources do not cover a longer stay, and private pay allows a family to pay directly.

Overview of The Care Center of Honolulu

The Care Center of Honolulu offers respiratory care, skilled nursing, and rehabilitation care; its atmosphere provides graceful living for short-term or long-term residents. The dedicated team of care staff assures residents of all kinds of living options that they receive supportive assistance for everyday living with enriching activities that contribute to a high success rate for recovery. The Care Center boasts its compassionate approach to an enhanced quality of life for all seniors. 
The Care Center offers a range of long-term and short-term rehabilitative services such as wound care, diagnostic radiology, dialysis, therapy (occupational, physical, speech), ventilator service– all being provided with 24-hour nursing. 

Overview of Ann Pearl Rehab & Nursing

Ann Pearl Rehab & Nursing provides nursing home care, nursing care, skilled nursing, adult day care, and memory care in Kaneohe, HI. Skilled nursing provides licensed nursing care on site around the clock, while memory care offers a secured setting with supervision for someone at risk of wandering.

Adult day care supports a person during the day while they live elsewhere, and nursing home care serves residents who need ongoing nursing support. The community has 104 beds, with total nurse staffing of 3 hours and 51 minutes per resident per day, representing the daily hands-on nursing time allocated to each resident.

Rehabilitation services are available here, giving residents access to rehabilitation through the facility’s services. Ann Pearl Rehab & Nursing also provides home health, adult day health, and care management, with home health supporting people receiving care at home and care management helping coordinate services and ongoing needs.

The combination of memory care and nursing services may be a good fit for someone living with dementia who also needs ongoing nursing support. Payment options include Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay.

A Walk Score of 48 places the area in a setting where most errands require a car or a ride. Daily trips for errands therefore depend on access to one of those options.

Overview of Pālolo Chinese Home

Eighteen beds, more than 120 years in operation. Pālolo Chinese Home is one of the smaller nursing homes in Honolulu, and one of the oldest. Located at 2459 10th Ave in the Pālolo neighborhood, the single-story facility sits about 3.4 miles from the city center in a car-dependent area (Walk Score 10). The intimate scale is the defining physical fact here.

Care options span nursing home, assisted living, hospice, and respite care. The average resident stay runs 82 days, which puts this facility squarely in the transitional and short-term care range rather than long-haul residential placement. Private and semi-private rooms are the available configurations.

Staffing runs around the clock, with total nursing care at 4 hours and 32 minutes per resident per day. Registered nurses account for 1 hour and 23 minutes of that figure. Rehabilitation services and short-term rehab are available on-site, consistent with the facility’s short average stay.

The service model reaches well beyond the building. Alongside residential care, Pālolo Chinese Home operates Senior Day Care, In-Home Services, Home Cleaning, Chore Services, Meals to Go, and an Older Adult Home Modification Program. Overnight Respite Care is available for families who need a temporary bridge. The facility accepts Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay.

Pālolo Chinese Home is a small, deeply rooted institution that has oriented itself toward community-based care as much as residential placement. Families working through a short-term recovery or exploring in-home support alongside nursing care will find more options here than the bed count alone suggests.

Overview of Islands Skilled Nursing and Rehab

Walker’s paradise is an unusual descriptor for a nursing home neighborhood, but Islands Skilled Nursing and Rehab earns it: Walk Score 96, McCully – Moiliili, 1.9 miles from Honolulu’s city center, with Kapi’olani Medical Center 0.18 miles away. The physical context here is genuinely distinct from the car-dependent suburban settings that define most post-acute care in the country.

The clinical profile is post-acute in character. Forty-two beds, 32 current residents, 74.2% occupancy, 88-day average stay. Admission is open to adults 18 and older.

Short-term rehab, transitional care, and respiratory care are offered alongside standard rehabilitation services. A doctor is on staff, and nursing coverage runs around the clock.

The staffing breakdown: registered nurses at 2 hours and 54 minutes per resident per day, nurse aides at 3 hours and 1 minute, LPNs at 4 minutes, totaling 3 hours and 10 minutes. The RN concentration is notable for a facility of this size.

Meals accommodate special and modified diets. An active resident council meets regularly. Mr. Leland Yagi is President/Administrator.

State inspections by Hawaii’s Department of Health, Office of Health Care Assurance, have surfaced recurring themes across medication management, infection prevention and control, care planning and documentation, staffing and staff credentials, and resident rights and protections. Families evaluating this facility should review those areas with care.

The facility accepts Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay. For families navigating post-acute placement in urban Honolulu, the combination of specialized respiratory and transitional care programs, a walkable location, and proximity to a major medical center makes this a facility worth examining closely, alongside its inspection record.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Care Center is a nursing home in Kaneohe, HI. Nursing home care provides ongoing nursing oversight and help with daily needs, so the community may be a good fit for a resident whose health needs require that level of support.

Private rooms give each resident an individual room rather than shared accommodation. Payment options are Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay, giving families listed ways to cover nursing home care.

Named programs include Safe Shelter, Elder Justice, Trauma-Informed Care, Education, and Professional Resources. The community focuses on serving older adults and advancing public knowledge of elder abuse prevention, extending its work into education and prevention alongside residential care.

Overview of Hale Ho Aloha

The address alone tells you something: 2670 Pacific Heights Rd puts Hale Ho Aloha 1.4 miles from Honolulu’s city center and under a mile from St. Francis Medical Center, in the Nuuanu – Punchbowl neighborhood. The Walk Score is 3. Getting here, and getting anywhere from here, requires a car.

What the facility offers is nursing home care with 24-hour staffing, hospice, and respite stays in the same building. The clinical roster includes physicians, licensed nurses, a licensed social worker, and a restorative therapy team.

Daily care covers the full range of personal needs: bathing, dressing, feeding, toileting. Nurse call systems are in resident rooms, and WanderGuard monitoring is in place. The infrastructure is attentive to residents who need close oversight.

The common spaces are designed for daily life rather than programming: a dining room, gathering areas, seating spaces, and outdoor lanais. Meals draw on locally inspired cuisine. Volunteer opportunities are available for those who want them.

The structurally significant fact here is payment. Hale Ho Aloha is a state-licensed nursing home and does not hold Medicare or Medicaid certification through the federal CMS framework. That means federal coverage pathways are not available at this facility; families need to plan around private pay from the outset. Administrator Bryce Sumida, DPT, OCS, NHA, leads operations.

What we find is a care-focused nursing home in a central Honolulu location, built for residents who need consistent clinical support and whose families are prepared to navigate private payment.

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Starting Price $511/Day Pricing updated on October 7th, 2026