Queen's Medical Center Case Study

Improvements of the Best Medical Facility The Queen’s Medical Center, located in Downtown, Honolulu, is private, non-profit, medical facility that offers primary and specialized care services. The organization is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and is affiliated with VHA Inc., the national healthcare alliance. It has been approved to participate in residency and medical training by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Jason Y. Kimura, Senior Publications Specialist at the hospital writes a book The Queen’s Medical Center that is about the evolution and changes throughout the years. The Queen’s Medical Center is by far the most best inspirational medical facilities on O’ahu
The original building opened on August 1, 1859 with “18 beds. Dr. William Hillenbrand and one assistant were able to treat 100 patients in that month” (He ‘Io Au 4:08 - 4:23). The King didn’t want only Hawaiians to be allowed into the hospital, but he wanted the hospital for all people. The care that he had for other races showed much gratitude he had as a leader. One year later, the new Queen’s Hospital was opened in December 6, 1860 with 124 beds. The hospital was established to comfort and provide for the sick in many ways. Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV wanted the best of their people to be taken care of by the hard-working hands of the people at the Queen’s Medical Center. The Queen’s Hospital was renamed to The Queen’s Medical Center in 1967. The people’s health is the key for their healing. The people trusted the Queen’s Hospital because it was named after the Queen that people looked up to. The Queen’s Hospital in the 1920’s began to focus on the support of the first medicine practices, technology used, nursing schools, and other related personnel. Over the years, the Queen’s Medical Center has improved their technology that were using since they first opened in 1860 of
The building that was established in 1860 hired 2 head nurses from the mainland that took their teaching skills of patient care to The Queen’s that made it better in the nursing department. The Queen’s Hospital School of Nursing changed it’s name in 1915. The first 3 year program started in 1916 with 32 students and graduated, first class of 1919 with 10 out of the 32 students. As the years went by, the requirements would change within years. In the early 20’s, 8th grade education was required for admission. In 1929, only high school graduated were eligible to be admitted. Three years after in 1932, people were required to complete a year’s work at University of Hawai’i. The year 1937, people were directly admitted to school where they took the first 2 years of courses at University of Hawai’i, then off to Nursing School, and finally 2 years of clinical practice. In the 40’s, it was required for people to take the weight and height test to be eligible for admissions. During World War II, it was required to spend one year taking pre-nursing courses at University of Hawai’i. In 1946, last class to complete one year at University of Hawai’i was admitted and the last class graduated with 35 students in