Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home is certified as a Medicare and Medicaid facility and has been approved to provide these services since 2008-03-10. Medicare covers short-term skilled nursing care (typically up to 100 days after a qualifying hospital stay). Medicaid covers long-term care for residents who meet financial eligibility requirements. Contact the facility at (808) 961-1500 or your local Medicaid office to verify current eligibility.

Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home holds an overall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) rating of 3 out of 5 stars. This is made up of three components: Health Inspection (3★), Staffing (4★), and Quality of Resident Care (4★). Our independent composite quality score — which uses the raw underlying CMS numbers to break ties between similarly-rated facilities — is 79.2/100, placing it #4059 of 14703 facilities nationally and #27 of 42 in Hawaii. Star ratings are a useful starting point, but the composite score and individual sub-ratings give a more complete picture for families comparing facilities.

Each resident at Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home receives a reported average of 4 hours 59 minutes of total nurse staffing per day. This breaks down as: Registered Nurse (RN) coverage — 1 hour 4 minutes; Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) — 29 minutes; Nurse Aide — 3 hours 25 minutes. On weekends, total nurse staffing is 4 hours 39 minutes per resident per day. The CMS Staffing Rating for this facility is 4 out of 5. The national average for total nursing hours is approximately 3.5 hrs/day. Total nursing staff turnover is 98.6%. Families are encouraged to ask about current staffing schedules during their facility visit.

In the current reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $13,049. One substantiated complaint was recorded across the 5-year period. In the most recent CMS reporting period, the facility received 1 fine(s) totaling $13,049, and 0 Medicare payment denial(s). Total penalties: 1. The Total Weighted Health Survey Score is 50.0 (lower scores are better). Full inspection history and complaint details are available at medicare.gov/care-compare.

Nationally, Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home ranks 4059th out of 14,703 facilities (composite score: 79.2/100), placing it in the above average nationwide. Within HI, it ranks 27th out of 42 nursing homes. In Hilo, it ranks 3rd out of 5 facilities. Among facilities sharing its ZIP code, it ranks 3rd of 5. For 2026 staffing: total nurse hours rank #1,240 nationally and RN hours rank #1,618 nationally (#36 in HI). Our composite quality score of 79.2/100 weighs health inspections, quality of resident care, staffing hours, compliance record, and five-year performance trends — giving a more complete picture than CMS star ratings alone, which can place hundreds of facilities in the same 5-star bucket. To browse and compare all nursing homes in Hilo, visit: https://nursinghomesnearme.org/hawaii/hilo/