Adventist Health Castle

Adventist Health Castle is a 160-bed medical center located in Windward Oahu. It provides a full range of services, including: acute care, 24-hour emergency services, outpatient and home care, wellness and lifestyle medicine, chemotherapy clinic, Surgical Weight Loss Institute, Hawaii Muscular Dystrophy Clinic, Joint Care Center, birth center and interventional cardiology.
History
In 1953, the Windward Community Association began a campaign for a hospital to be established in Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii. Dr. Robert Chung, a physician and Mrs. Carolyn Rankin, organizer of a women's auxiliary, were key leaders in the campaign. Ten acres of land were donated for a building site, the community raised $170,000 to fund the project and the Seventh-day Adventist Church donated $600,000. Although support was received from both the Governor's Hospital Advisory Council and the 30th Territorial Legislature, the Board of Health refused to designate the area as a separate hospital zone. Their refusal prevented any federal funds from being available.
Two incidents emphasized the need for a local hospital. The first involved a collapsed roof that injured five men and forced them to travel to Honolulu to receive medical attention. The second involved a five-year-old girl who choked to death on a pill. Doctors agreed that had surgery facilities been closer, the child might have lived. Within months the State Board of Health gave their approval and access to federal funds became available.
In 2017, Castle Medical Center changed its name to Adventist Health Castle.
AdventistHealth Castle is going to build a new medical campus for $438 million. Adventist Health Castle is going to redevelop the 132 acre Hawaii Loa campus over a 15 year period. They plan on building the regions first cancer center in three phases. Also to be built will be new buildings for outpatient services. And construction will be finished with a new 160 bed hospital. Adventist Health is the largest business in Windward Oahu.
Television
Female staffers at Castle Medical Center mentor girls from Sacred Hearts Academy through Girls Got Grit a PBS Hawaii program.
Partnerships
Castle Medical Center is the 5th Oahu hospital to become part of the Hawaii Cord Blood Bank in collecting umbilical cord blood.
Adventist Health Castle has a partnership with Hawaii Pacific University
Training program
In the spring of 2018 Adventist Health Castle received a workforce training program from COPE Health Solutions.
Awards
Castle Medical Center has received the Women's Choice Award many times.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology chose Adventist Health Castle as the winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 2017 and U. S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced to Adventist Health Castle that they won. Applicants are judged on leadership, strategy, operations, and results. The Hawaii House of Representatives on March 29, 2018 congratulated Adventist Health Castle for being nominated. President Donald Trump and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross gave Adventist Health Castle, President and CEO Kathy Raethal, and Quality Improvement Coordinator, Steve Bovey, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award at the Quest for Excellence Conference in Baltimore, on April 8, 2018. Adventist Health Castle is the first hospital in Hawaii, and the first from Adventist Health to be given the award from the President of the United States.
Hurricane
In August 2018 Adventist Health Castle started its 24/7 incident command center, because of Hurrucane Lane.

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