Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children
Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children is part of Hawaii Pacific Health's network of hospitals. It is located in Honolulu, Hawaii, within the residential inner-city district of Makiki. 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 comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Hawaii.
A woman with a baby at the Kapiolani Maternity Home around the twenty-first anniversary in 1912
A new mother holds her baby who was born 10 weeks premature at Kapiʻolani Medical Center
Kapiʻolani was the queen of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi as the consort of Mōʻī (king) Kalākaua, who reigned from 1874 to his death in 1891, when she became known as the Dowager Queen Kapiʻolani. Deeply interested in the health and welfare of Native Hawaiians, Kapiʻolani established the Kapiʻolani Home for Girls, for the education of the daughters of residents of the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement, and the Kapiʻolani Maternity Home, where Hawaiian mothers and newborns could receive care.
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Queen Kapiʻolani and her crown, c. 1883
The Sisters of St. Francis and Walter Murray Gibson at the Kapiʻolani Home for Girls, 1886
Queen Kapiʻolani wearing Niʻihau necklace at Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebration