MidWeek Windward - January 18, 2023

HAPPY AT THE HUT
A Kailua employee earns a Pizza Hut Foundation scholarship award.
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FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 18, 2023
A PUBLICATION OF
AN EDITION OF
Hospital Celebrates 60 Years Of Service
Adventist Health Castle family nurse practitioner Kimberly Danks examines a patient. PHOTO COURTESY ADVENTIST HEALTH CASTLE
OBY STEPHANIE LOPES
n Jan. 16, 1963, Castle Memorial Hospital opened with 72 beds and 14 bassinets. Now, Windward O‘ahu’s
only hospital — renamed Adventist Health Castle — is a 160-bed facility and also oper- ates eight clinics and four urgent cares island- wide, serving residents with health care needs, including emergency services, routine wellness checks, cancer care, diabetes education, birth- ing, imaging, surgery, pharmacy, weight loss, physical therapy and more.
“We are proud to offer high-quality, safe patient care close to home,” says communi- cations manager Janel Len.
Ten years of concerted community efforts — along with two tragedies — led to the opening of the desperately needed medical care facility. In 1953, Windward O‘ahu’s closest care facility was a 45-minute drive over the unpredictable old Pali Road, and ambulance services only operated between 1 and 9 p.m. Fridays-Tuesdays.
Through speeches, pledge cards, fashion shows and walking door to door, dedicated SEE PAGE 4