Assisted living in Lihue, HI
3 licensed communities, listed alphabetically. Hawaii publishes that it issued an inspection document, not how serious the finding was, so nothing here is ranked by one.
Memory care isn’t marked here — because the state doesn’t publish it.
Hawaii Dept. of Health, Office of Health Care Assurance’s licensing file carries no memory-care or dementia-unit designation, so we cannot tell you which of these communities has one. There certainly are memory-care communities in this state — we just have no authoritative list of them, and we won’t guess from a community’s name. Ask any community directly whether it runs a secured dementia unit, and ask your Long-Term Care Ombudsman ↗ which local communities take dementia residents.
What’s actually in Lihue
These 3 licences are not all the same kind of place:
- 2 ARCH
- 1 Assisted living
Every one is licensed for 5 beds.
1 of the 3 have no bed count in the state’s file, so they are not in that range.
2 of the 3 have an inspection or enforcement document on file. The remaining 1 is not in the state’s extract, which is not the same as a clean record.
What it costs around here
Median private-pay cost, CareScout (Genworth) 2025 Cost of Care Survey — a regional midpoint, not any single community’s rate. Private rooms and higher care levels cost more; ask for a current quote. Project your own in the cost-of-care planner.
† Memory care is our estimate, not survey data: CareScout does not survey memory care, so we take the assisted-living median for the state and add $1,200/month — the typical secured-dementia-unit premium. It is a planning figure with no state-level detail behind it, and real memory-care pricing varies far more than that. Treat it as a starting point and ask the community for its own memory-care rate.
Estimated cost range · regional
In Hawaii, assisted living typically runs about $9,700–$14,500/month.
This is a regional estimate modeled from published survey data (the CareScout/Genworth state median, ±20%) — not this community’s actual price, which it sets privately. Ask the community for its current all-in monthly rate and what each care level adds.
Paying with Medicaid
Hawaii Medicaid helps pay for assisted living only in limited circumstances — through a waiver, and not everywhere in the state or for everyone who qualifies.
The Hawaii waiver that can pay for it:
- QUEST Integration (managed LTSS / former Community Care Services) — covers in-home / adult day / community care foster family home / assisted living
In Hawaii: apply or check eligibility ↗ or call 1-800-316-8005.
A waiver pays for care, not for rent. Even where the state covers assisted-living services, room and board is still the resident’s to pay. Full eligibility limits — income, assets, the look-back — are on our Hawaii Medicaid page.
Nearby towns in this state
Assisted living is a local decision, but the right community is often one town over — and a 20-minute difference in drive time decides how often anyone actually visits, which is the single thing that most affects how a resident does.