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Ways Your Support Helps

As a nonprofit hospital, Kapiʻolani Medical Center relies on community support to fulfill its mission. Our generous donors, through contributions to the Kapiʻolani Health Foundation, help the hospital provide exceptional medical care for Hawaiʻiʼs women and children, including the very sickest, in four key areas: 

Patient Care

Kapiʻolani Medical Centerʼs unique, family-centered approach to healthcare puts patients and families at the center of the healthcare experience. This creates an environment in which women, children and their families can heal together, with better outcomes.

 

Capital Improvements

Kapiʻolani Medical Center was built in the1970s. Today, we face an urgent need to renovate, expand and update our 30-year-old hospital. Philanthropic support of capital improvements of Kapiʻolani Medical Center will remain a focal effort for the Kapiʻolani Health Foundation in the coming years. Nothing less than a state-of-the-art hospital, close to home, is what Hawaiʻiʼs women and children deserve.

  

Education and Research

Your support makes possible the vital health education and community outreach programs that can improve medical outcomes. Your support also makes possible the critical research in prenatal, neonatal and childrenʼs medicine that will lead to new and effective treatments being discovered.

  

Uncompensated Care 
As a mission-driven hospital, Kapiʻolani Medical Center provides quality care to all who need it, regardless of their ability to pay. Fifty-two percent of children seeking care are from uninsured or underinsured families, yet Kapiʻolani never turns a child away. Community support helps us carry out this worthy part of our mission.