FRAN HALLONQUIST retired in 2003 after twenty-five years with Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women & Children and Pali Momi Medical Center. She was Chief Executive Officer of both medical centers, and later helped guide the merger of Kapiʻolani Health, Straub Clinic & Hospital, and Wilcox Memorial Hospital to form Hawaiʻi Pacific Health. She joined Kapiʻolani in 1978 as it merged with Kauikeolani Childrenʼs Hospital.
Here are Franʼs reflections:
The Role of Passion & Emotion in Healthcare
I always had a passion for what I did. It was a little less administratively clinical perhaps...
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My Story
I was a patient in Maternal Fetal Intensive Care unit in 1982, and it was a very new...
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The Merger Years: Living & Learning Together
I think the one anecdote that most of us that were there at the time remember clearly is that there were two lobbies...
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My Mentor, Richard Davi
People loved Dick Davi because he was someone that was so approachable. Man, he was fun...
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The Hospitalʼs Impact Beyond Punahou Street
The impact of the hospital was way beyond Punahou Street. Itʼs to all of our neighbor islands...
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Community Programs: SATC
One of the things that also made the Childrenʼs Hospital so unique as it went through the 1980s...
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Community Programs: Hawaiʻi Poison Center
We also had the Hawaiʻi Poison Center, which was based at the Childrenʼs Hospital emergency room...
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Return to a Look Back
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