Kawasaki Hospital

What Kawasaki Hospital does

Kawasaki Hospital (川﨑病院) is a 215-bed care-mix regional hospital operated by Medical Corporation Keijinkai (医療法人社団慶仁会) in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, founded in 1964. The institution combines acute care (95 beds), recovery rehabilitation (52 beds), community integrated care (48 beds), and chronic/sanatorium-level care (20 beds) under a single roof, with concentrated specialist expertise in orthopaedics, hand surgery, spinal surgery, and neurosurgery. Approximately 95% of patients are aged 60 or older, drawn primarily from the Yame/Chikugo region of southwestern Fukuoka Prefecture, with first-visit volumes of ~9,757 outpatients and ~1,556 inpatient discharges annually (FY2022). The hospital operates with approximately 400 staff and is led by Chairman Kawasaki Yuji, with hospital director Hakari Masahiro (Kyushu University-trained, USA fellowship alumni) overseeing clinical operations.

The hospital's technical platform centres on capital-intensive surgical and imaging equipment rarely assembled in a single regional institution in Japan: the Mako robotic-arm assistance system (third Kyushu installation, introduced February 2020), O-arm intraoperative 3D imaging with spinal cord monitoring, L'DISQ plasma nucleoplasty for lumbar disc herniation, 3.0T MRI, and 64-slice CT. These systems support high-volume joint replacement (163 knee and 52 hip arthroplasties in FY2026), spinal surgery, and hand surgery services. The hospital extends beyond inpatient walls through a wholly-owned network of affiliated facilities: Vihara Kofu nursing home (100 beds), Kenso Sakura assisted living (50 rooms), Therafit Lien preventive day service (opened November 2023), home-visit nursing, and home-visit rehabilitation — collectively providing a complete care continuum for elderly patients from acute admission through post-discharge support.

Revenue is generated primarily through Japan's national health insurance fee schedule under DPC (Diagnosis Procedure Combination) payment methodology, supplemented by out-of-pocket private room upgrade charges (¥3,850-¥11,000 per day), long-term care insurance fees from affiliated elderly facilities (¥121,060-¥139,810 per month for Kenso Sakura), home-visit service fees, and document/certificate fees. Patient demand is driven by physician referrals coordinated through the dedicated admission-discharge support center (~1,570 referred patients annually), community health lectures, and the hospital's designation as a support hospital for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks professional baseball team's 2nd and 3rd squads. The hospital holds multiple regulatory designations including DPC coefficient 1.3544, Japan Medical Functions Evaluation accreditation, and continuous training facility certifications from three Japanese medical societies (orthopaedics since 1983, hand surgery since 2012, spine surgery since 2021).

Name

Kawasaki Hospital

Legal name

Medical Corporation Keijinkai (社会福祉法人、医療法人社団慶仁会)

Website

https://kawasaki-h.or.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

1964

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Kawasaki Hospital is a 215-bed care-mix regional hospital in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, specializing in orthopaedics, hand surgery, spinal surgery, and neurosurgery for an elderly population (~95% aged 60+). The institution combines advanced surgical technology (Mako robotics, O-arm imaging) with an integrated network of nursing homes, assisted living, and home-visit services under Medical Corporation Keijinkai.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Acute and Post-Acute Hospital Services

NAICS

General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (622110), Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) (62311), Continuing Care Retirement Communities and Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly (62331)

SIC

Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062), Services-Nursing & Personal Care Facilities (8050)

akta.pro primary industry

Orthopedic & Spine Specialty Hospitals (HLAFAHAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Subacute Care Facilities (HLAFAFAE), Assisted Living with Enhanced Care / High-Acuity (Aging-in-Place) (HLADABAC), Hospital/Facility-to-Home Caregiver Placement (HSABAMAC)

Keywords

• General hospital services
• Orthopedic surgery services
• Rehabilitation care
• Elderly care facilities
• Joint replacement surgery

Headquarters

HQ city

Fukuoka

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. National Health Insurance Medical Services: As a designated insurance medical institution (保険医療機関) under Japan's national health insurance system, the hospital generates the majority of its revenue through medical service fees reimbursed under the national health insurance scheme. The hospital is also a DPC (Diagnosis Procedure Combination) payment system hospital, meaning inpatient care revenue is calculated using a hybrid of DPC lump-sum payments and fee-for-service components.
2. Inpatient Room Upgrade Charges: The hospital charges patients for private room upgrades (個室利用料). Three tiers of private rooms are available with daily rates ranging from ¥3,850 to ¥11,000, providing revenue from hotel-type services not covered by national health insurance.
3. Elderly Care Facility Fees: The hospital operates satellite care facilities (ビハーラ光風, 健荘さくら, セラフィット リアン) that generate revenue through daily care fees, accommodation charges, and meal service fees under Japan's long-term care insurance (介護保険) system.
4. Home-visit Care Services: Visiting nursing and rehabilitation services provided in patients' homes, billed through Japan's long-term care insurance or medical insurance depending on the patient's certification status.
5. Medical Certificate and Document Fees: Charges for medical certificates and documents issued upon request, ranging from ¥1,100 to ¥11,000 per document.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Operates a 215-bed care-mix hospital in Yame City, Fukuoka Prefecture, providing acute, recovery, community-integrated, and chronic/sanatorium-level care with core clinical specialties in orthopaedics, hand surgery, spinal/spinal-cord surgery, neurosurgery, rheumatology, internal medicine/diabetes, and rehabilitation. The hospital offers advanced surgical procedures including robotic-arm-assisted joint replacement, intraoperative 3D image-guided spinal surgery, and plasma nucleoplasty, and operates an integrated network of elderly care facilities, home-visit services, and day-care programs.

Product overview

Kawasaki Hospital operates as a care-mix medical institution with 215 beds providing integrated healthcare services. The hospital serves as the core medical facility of Medical Corporation Keijinkai, offering specialized departments including Orthopedics (with dedicated centers for joints, hand surgery, and spine surgery), Neurosurgery, Internal Medicine (with diabetes care), and Rehabilitation. The organization extends beyond hospital walls through affiliated facilities including home-visit nursing and rehabilitation services, elderly care facilities (ビハーラ光風, 健荘さくら), prevention-focused daycare (セラフィット リアン), and care management services (川崎ケアプランサービス). Advanced medical technologies include Mako robotic surgery for joint replacement, O-arm imaging for spinal surgery, L'DISQ plasma nucleoplasty for disc herniation, 3.0T MRI, and 64-slice CT scanning. The hospital also operates a sports clinic and osteoporosis clinic as specialized outpatient services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Arthropathy Center (関節症センター): Specialized center for joint diseases including hip, knee, and shoulder conditions with robot-assisted surgery
• Hand Surgery Center (手外科センター)
• Spine and Spinal Cord Surgery Center (脊椎脊髄外科)
• Diabetes Internal Medicine (糖尿病内科)
• Sports Outpatient Clinic (スポーツ外来)
• Osteoporosis Clinic (骨粗しょう症外来)
• Therafit Lien (セラフィット リアン)
• Kenso Sakura (健荘さくら)
• Vihara Kofu (ビハーラ光風)

Products and services

• Kawasaki Hospital — Acute, Recovery, Community-Integrated, and Chronic Care Inpatient Services 215-bed care-mix hospital providing acute general (95 beds), recovery rehabilitation (52 beds), community integrated care (48 beds), and sanatorium-level chronic care (20 beds) under Japan's national health insurance. Serves elderly patients from the Yame/Chikugo region.
• Arthropathy Center (関節症センター) Specialty clinic for hip, knee, and shoulder joint diseases, performing artificial joint replacement surgery using the Mako robotic-arm system plus comprehensive rehabilitation. Targets elderly patients and sports injury cases.
• Hand Surgery Center (手外科センター) Specialised hand, wrist, and elbow treatment centre offering endoscopic surgery and post-surgical hand therapy rehabilitation. Certified training facility of the Japanese Society for Surgery of the Hand since 2012.
• Spine and Spinal Cord Surgery Center (脊椎・脊髄外科) Spine and spinal cord disease diagnosis and treatment centre equipped with O-arm intraoperative 3D imaging and microscopic surgery. One of only five certified training facilities of the Japan Spine Surgery Society in Kyushu (since 2021).
• Sports Outpatient Clinic (スポーツ外来) Specialty clinic for sports injury treatment and rehabilitation, returning athletes to sport. Operates Tuesday evenings 18:00–20:00. Serves as designated support clinic for Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 2nd and 3rd squad players.
• Osteoporosis Clinic (骨粗しょう症外来) Specialty clinic for osteoporosis diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, with DEXA bone density testing and multidisciplinary care team.
• Diabetes Internal Medicine (糖尿病内科) Diabetes treatment department staffed by physicians, dietitians, and rehabilitation specialists providing team-based diabetes care, education, and lifestyle management.
• Home-visit Nursing Service (訪問看護) Home nursing services providing medical treatment, health management, and family caregiver support to patients in their own homes in Yame City, Chikugo City, and Hirokawa Town.
• Home-visit Rehabilitation Service (訪問リハビリテーション) Home rehabilitation services helping patients maintain and recover physical function within their familiar living environment.
• Vihara Kofu — Elderly Nursing Care Facility (ビハーラ光風) 100-bed nursing care facility for the elderly, providing medical, nursing, rehabilitation, nutrition management, and day service under long-term care insurance. Wholly owned subsidiary of Medical Corporation Keijinkai.
• Kenso Sakura — Paid Nursing Home for the Elderly (健荘さくら) Fee-based nursing home with 50 private rooms (capacity 50 residents) for elderly requiring care, integrating medical and nursing collaboration. Monthly rates ¥121,060–¥139,810 all-inclusive.
• Therafit Lien — Care-Prevention Day Service (セラフィット リアン) Day service focused on care prevention, offering exercise programmes, physical function training, self-training, social and group activities for elderly with care certification. All staff are professionally qualified.
• Kawasaki Care Plan Service (川崎ケアプランサービス) Designated home-care support office that creates and coordinates care plans for elderly and disabled individuals under Japan's long-term care insurance system.
• Mako Robotic-Arm Assisted Joint Replacement Surgery Robotic-arm assisted total knee arthroplasty and total hip arthroplasty using the Mako system (Japan's first approved orthopedic robotic surgery assistance system). The system automatically stops if it approaches non-target bone, delivering sub-millimetre precision.
• O-arm Intraoperative 3D Imaging-Guided Spinal Surgery Intraoperative imaging system capturing high-resolution fluoroscopic and 3D images during spinal surgery, enabling real-time monitoring for accurate screw placement and instrument insertion.
• L'DISQ Plasma Nucleoplasty for Lumbar Disc Herniation Minimally invasive treatment for lumbar disc herniation using an approximately 2mm needle with a deflectable electrode delivering plasma thermal energy to vaporise herniated disc tissue. Low invasiveness with rapid social recovery.
• Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy High-pressure oxygen chamber therapy delivering 100% oxygen at above-atmospheric pressure to increase blood oxygen levels, supporting wound healing, nerve regeneration, and sudden hearing loss.

Quantifiable outcome

• 94.13% pulmonary thromboembolism prophylaxis compliance for high-risk surgical patients
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (福岡ソフトバンクホークス)minorOthers · 1 January 2016Kawasaki Hospital serves as the designated support hospital for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks' 2nd and 3rd squad players. When players sustain injuries or experience physical issues during matches or training, they are examined and treated by the hospital's specialist physicians. This partnership reflects the hospital's sports medicine credibility and generates public recognition.
• Social Welfare Council Yame City Branch (社会福祉協議会立花支所)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative events for regional health promotion, including children's health education activities such as wheelchair/mobility aid experiences and nutritional cooking classes. These partnerships extend the hospital's community health outreach.
• Tama Home Stadium Chikugo (タマホーム stadium筑後)minorOthersThrough the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks partnership, the hospital conducts 'Family Sports Experience' events at the Hawks' minor league stadium, providing sports injury prevention education and family exercise activities for the regional community.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• IMS Group: Japanese private hospital group operating over 140 facilities including acute hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, and elderly care facilities. Comparable in offering integrated hospital-clinic-elder-care services under a single medical corporation structure.
• Aijinkai Healthcare Group: Private Japanese medical corporation operating general hospitals, geriatric health services facilities, and elderly care homes. Comparable care-mix model combining acute inpatient care with affiliated nursing and assisted living services for an aging catchment.
• Tokushukai Medical Group: One of Japan's largest private hospital groups with 70+ facilities nationwide. Comparable as a multi-site private medical corporation operating acute hospitals alongside affiliated elderly care facilities under a single corporate umbrella.
• Kouhoukai Medical Group (Saitama Medical Center): Japanese private medical corporation operating acute hospitals and rehabilitation/elderly care facilities under a unified corporate structure. Comparable care-mix model combining inpatient specialty care with affiliated long-term care services.
• Kameda Medical Center: Large private Japanese hospital group (Kameda Healthcare Group) operating a 900+ bed tertiary hospital and integrated care network. Comparable in operating an integrated hospital-and-elder-care continuum, but at substantially larger scale and broader geographic reach than Kawasaki Hospital.

Others

• Benesse Style Care: Japan's largest private operator of assisted living and elderly care facilities with 300+ locations nationwide. Comparable as a peer operator of fee-based nursing and assisted living services, though at much larger scale and without hospital operations.

Regional players

• Fukuoka University Hospital: Major academic hospital in Fukuoka City offering advanced orthopedic, spine, and neurosurgical services. Comparable as a higher-acuity competitor that draws complex cases from Fukuoka Prefecture's rural areas, including Kawasaki Hospital's catchment.
• Kurume University Hospital: Academic medical center in Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, also serving the Chikugo region. Comparable as a higher-tier referral destination competing for specialty surgical cases (orthopedics, spine, neurosurgery) from the same Yame/Chikugo catchment.
• St. Mary's Hospital (Kurume): Regional general hospital in Kurume City, Fukuoka, also in the Chikugo region. Comparable as a peer regional hospital competing for acute and specialty patient referrals from the same secondary medical zone as Kawasaki Hospital.
• Iizuka Hospital: Major regional general hospital in Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, also in Kyushu. Comparable as a regional referral hub offering advanced surgical and specialty care (including orthopedics) to a rural-depopulating catchment similar to Kawasaki Hospital's Yame/Chikugo area.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance23 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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