Hilo Medical Center is a general hospital run by Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and they cover a lot of ground, so you'll find about 199 beds here with an average of 127 in use each day, and they see all kinds of patients from newborns to seniors. They have special intensive care units for newborns, children, heart patients, and other medical and surgical cases, and a Progressive Care Unit with telemetry monitoring. For mothers, there's a maternity department that oversees more than a thousand births a year, plus 20 bassinets for babies, and they offer a Breast Feeding & Lactation Clinic. Folks with cancer can get care in the EHHC Cancer Center Building, where you'll see treatment bays that look out onto a garden, a waiting room just for cancer patients, and advanced equipment like a Varian TrueBeam LINAC for radiation therapy including 3D, IMRT, SBRT, IGRT, and respiratory gating. They mix chemotherapy onsite at their pharmacy and have certified doctors in radiation oncology and board-certified specialists in medical oncology and hematology. Their cancer program holds a Commission on Cancer accreditation, and they also have genetic counseling, CT simulation, and nurse navigators to help people find their way.
Burn care, psychiatric help, behavioral health for adults, and rehabilitation with physical, occupational, and speech therapy are all available here. The hospital gets busy with over 20,000 annual emergency visits, about 6,600 admissions, thousands of surgeries, and outpatient services-reaching almost 119,000 non-emergency visits a year. There's an Intensive Care Unit with a 2:1 staff-to-patient ratio and a Beacon Award for Excellence. Hilo Medical Center supports both minor and major health needs in their clinics, so you can get everything from allergy checks, joint injections, wart treatments, and nutrition or health coaching, right up to specialized surgery or interventional radiology. You'll find clinics for cardiology, dermatology, plastic surgery, gastroenterology, orthopedics, pulmonology, urology, neurology, ENT, vascular surgery, women's health, and even audiology.
People can see doctors at Primary Care Clinics, Urgent Care, and the Emergency Department, and these are spread across several locations in Hilo, Kea'au, Pahoa, Pahala, and at East Hawaii Health Clinics. Families get help with health problems at all ages, like well-child checks, vaccinations, women's health exams, help for aging issues, management of long-term illnesses like diabetes or heart disease, and family planning-offering birth control, IUDs, vasectomies, and counseling for both young and older adults. The Imaging Department uses equipment like a Siemens Artis Zee Biplane angiography system and Toshiba Aquilion One Vision 640-slice CT scanner, and people can get their results online through a patient portal or PowerShare. They run Outpatient Rehabilitation, Medical Records, Pharmacy services with prescription refills, language access, and community relations to support both patients and the wider community, including telehealth for seeing a doctor without leaving home. Hilo Medical Center also has extended care facilities, nursing administration, and procurement services to keep operations running.
With all of this, Hilo Medical Center covers almost every need you can think of, whether you need hospital care, specialized clinics, or help with daily health, and they blend new technology with services for routine and emergency care, always keeping patients-no matter their age-at the center of their work.
