Honolulu Economic Development: Healthcare and Medical

Honolulu offers a Healthy Climate for Quality Health Care.

Health care in Honolulu is acknowledged amongst the best in the nation. Honolulu's clean air, quality drinking water, and mild climate naturally provide a healthful environment. The state's two largest health maintenance care plans, Kaiser Permanente and Health Plan Hawaii offered by HMSA (a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate) consistently earn excellent accreditation for quality of care from the National Council on Quality Assurance (NCQA), America's leading health care quality assurance organization.

Eight major hospitals serve the residents of Honolulu and Hawaii's military personnel. Hawaii has more physicians per capita than the U.S. overall, ranking 9th with 2.5 physicians per 1,000 residents. Hawaii also has more dentists per capita than the national average at 0.82 per 1,000 than the U.S. with 0.55.

Honolulu is one of the few cities to have gamma knife technology readily available. And as the healthcare headquarters for much of the Pacific, Hawaii is leading telemedicine initiatives to bring health care technology and services to remote Pacific islands. Interest in holistic and alternative healing sciences from Asian, Hawaiian, and Western cultures continues to grow among Hawaii's residents and visitors.

The University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii Pacific Health Research, Queens Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente are leading research initiatives in biomedical research, medical technology, drug clinical trials, disease prevention, and treatment protocols.

Business Incubator

Hawaii Health Care Business Incubator - is a privately funded service oriented enterprise which supports existing and start-up healthcare ventures, the important combination of physical space and equipment and business counseling services, in an environment that allows emerging companies to collaborate and consult with other business professionals and thereby develop superior products and services for the health care industry.