Welcome to the District VIII Hawaii page!
Aloha! Hawai’i is a proud member of the AAP District VIII Section on Perinatal Pediatrics. The state representative to the District VIII Council is Dr. Emmanuel Kling (ere@hawaii.edu) .
Neonatology in Hawai’i
There are three Level III NICUs serving the entire state of Hawaii. Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children (KMCWC; www.hawaiipacifichealth.org/kapiolani/), Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) and Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center are all located in the city of Honolulu on the island of Oahu. There are approximately 15,000 births per year in the state.
KMCWC is the only public pediatric tertiary care center in the state. The Kapi’olani Transport Team is the only emergency pediatric transport team providing specialized care by both ground and air. The 84 bed NICU located in the Diamond Head Tower offers level III+ neonatal care with 24/7 in-house attending neonatologist coverage. KMCWC serves as the main training site for the University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology residency programs. It also serves as a training site for the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program with TAMC (Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship – Hawaii Residency Programs). In 2009, the hospital celebrated 100 years of Caring for Children.
Hanu’ola (“healing breath”) is the ECMO program of Hawai’i, providing extracorporeal life support services for Hawai’i and the Pacific Rim. In addition to our clinical program, Hanu’ola supports both research and quality improvement initiatives. Training and maintaining competency are achieved through our annual training and simulation program. Hanu’ola has been recognized as an ELSO Center of Excellence, Gold Level, since 2015.
The Kapiʻolani Pediatric Heart Center provides comprehensive congenital and pediatric cardiac services, including fetal cardiology, advanced imaging, pediatric cardiac catheterization, transcatheter PDA closure using the Piccolo™ device, and pediatric cardiothoracic surgery. These services allow many infants and children with complex heart disease to receive advanced cardiac care locally in Hawaiʻi.
Fun Facts about Hawai’i
Hawai’i was admitted to the union as the 50th state on August 20, 1959. It is officially known as the “Aloha State”.
Hawai’i is the most isolated population center on Earth. It is 2,390 miles (3,850 km) from California, 3,850 miles (6,195 km) from Japan and 4,900 miles (7,885 km) from China.
The state of Hawai’i consists of eight larger, populated islands (except of the island of Kaho’olawe, which is not populated) and 124 small, uninhabited islands, reefs and atolls stretching from the Nihoa, located about 280 miles (450 km) northwest of Honolulu, all the way to the Kure Atoll, located further northwest. The Hawaiian archipelago spans the distance of 1,524 miles (2,451 km) making Hawai’i the longest island chain in the world.
Hawai’i has its’ own time zone, Hawaii Standard Time, and does not observe daylight savings. HST is behind Pacific Standard Time by two hours in the winter and three hours in the summer.
Life in Hawaii
Hawaii’s population is rich with diversity. It is the only state whose majority population is non-white.
Hawai’i has perhaps the best weather all year round. The average daytime temperature in January is 72 F and in July is 82 F. Good year-round climate encourages an active lifestyle. Running, hiking, swimming, surfing, golfing, paddle boarding, kayaking can all be done throughout the year. Hawai’i has one of the lowest rates of obesity (#2) and has the highest life expectancy in the country.
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