Hospitals in Nairobi: every one on record, by level and owner

Veligraph data desk · published 19 August 2026 · 1,706 Nairobi facilities on record

Nairobi County holds more health facilities than any other county in Kenya. Veligraph tracks 1,706 of them, and 105 are hospitals or specialist centres, meaning facilities that can admit you rather than only see you. This is the full hospital list as the national register records it, with the KEPH level that decides what each one can treat and who owns it.

What Nairobi's 1,706 facilities actually are

Most of what exists in Nairobi is not a hospital. Community health units and clinics dominate the count, which is the normal shape of an urban health system: a wide base of outpatient points, and a much smaller number of places with beds.

Who owns Nairobi's hospitals

Of the 105 hospitals and specialist centres on record, 79 are private for-profit, 11 are public or state-linked, and 15 are faith-based or NGO-run. Nairobi is where Kenya's private hospital sector is concentrated, and the county is unusual in that a patient's realistic choice of hospital is mostly a private one, while the largest single institution by capacity is public.

Every hospital and specialist centre on record in Nairobi

Ordered by KEPH level, highest first. Level 6 is national referral, Level 5 is county referral, Level 4 is a primary hospital with inpatient surgery. What each level means is explained here.

How to read this list as a patient

The level tells you capability, not quality. A Level 4 private hospital may be excellent and a Level 5 may be overstretched; what the grade guarantees is the tier of service the facility is registered and reimbursed to provide. For an emergency requiring specialist surgery or intensive care, the Level 5 and 6 institutions are where the country's referral system is designed to send you. For anything routine, the Level 4 hospitals are the working layer of the city.

Note too that several entries are branches of the same group under slightly different names. That is how they appear in the register, and we keep them as separate records because they are separate licensed premises with separate locations.

What this data is, and is not

These are facilities on record in Veligraph, not a certified count of every hospital operating in Nairobi today. Our Kenyan records come from the national master facility register as of a 2020 snapshot: hospitals opened since then are missing, some listed premises will have closed or been renamed, and grades may have changed. Kenyan records in our set carry no coordinates, so there is no map for this county. Treat the table as the register's view, and verify with the facility before you travel to it.

See the full Kenya index for other counties, or how Kenya's KEPH levels work.

Sources

• Kenya Master Health Facility Registry, Ministry of Health, facility type, level and ownership as registered (2020 snapshot)

Register figures are shown as recorded; anomalies are flagged, not edited. Method and limitations: how Veligraph is built.