Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children is a Women's and Children's hospital, It is part of Hawaiʻi Pacific Health's network of hospitals. It is located in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi within the neighborhood of Mōʻiliʻili. Kapiolani Medical Center is Hawaiʻi'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.
The facility was founded by Queen Kapiolani as the Kapiolani Maternity Home in 1890 for which she held bazaars and lūʻaus to raise the $8,000 needed to start the hospital. It has since changed its name several times. Kauikeōlani Children's Hospital opened in 1909 named for Emma Kauikeōlani Napoleon Mahelona (1862–1931), the wife of Albert Spencer Wilcox (1844–1919). In 1978, it merged with Kapiolani Hospital to become Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children. On August 4, 1961, future US president Barack Obama was born in the hospital.
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