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Tripler Army Medical Center. There are eight hospitals in Honolulu on the island of Oahu: Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center, 295 beds [1] Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women & Children, 253 beds; Kuakini Medical Center, 357 beds [1] The Queen's Medical Center, Hawaii's only Level 1 Trauma Center, 650 beds [1]
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US military occupied the hospital during World War II and renamed it Kuakini Medical Center, after the street. [2] The street was in turn named for John Adams Kuakini (1791–1844) who was acting Governor of Oahu in the 1830s. [ 3 ]
In January, 1921, the five founding partners formally organized themselves as a legal partnership. At Straub's insistence the group he founded did not bear his name, and it was to be known simply as "The Clinic". A specialist in internal medicine and radiology, joined the clinic in 1921, a general surgeon in 1922, and a pediatrician joined in 1924.
With the success of the early efforts by Matson Navigation Company to provide steamer travel to America's wealthiest families en route to Hawaii, a series of resort hotels were built in Honolulu at the start of the twentieth century, including the Moana Hotel (1901) and Honolulu Seaside Hotel, both on Waikiki Beach, and the Alexander Young Hotel in downtown Honolulu (1903).
Kapiʻolani Medical Center is Hawaii's only children's hospital with a team of physicians and nurses and specialized technology trained specifically to care for children, from infants to young adults. It is the state's only 24-hour pediatric emergency department, pediatric intensive care unit and adolescent unit. The hospital provides ...
The center, owned by Kamehameha Schools at the time, completed a $100 million renovation in 2007 to include more retailers and restaurants. [2] The center was sold to RHC Property Holding LLC in 2013. [3] The Apple Store at the Royal Hawaiian Center was permanently closed on January 20, 2024. [4]
The complex has a multi-purpose arena, concert hall, exhibition hall, galleria, meeting rooms, Waikiki Shell and others. Constructed in 1964 on the historic Ward Estate and originally called the Honolulu International Center, the center was renamed after Mayor of Honolulu Neal S. Blaisdell, who oversaw its construction. [2]
Hilton Hawaiian Village sign (2015) The Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort is a resort hotel on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii.The resort first opened in 1955, [1] and since has grown to become the largest in the Hilton chain of hotels, and one of largest hotels in the world.