Personal Services and Facilities
Acute Hemodialysis
Trained physicians and nurses provide dialysis services to inpatients with acute and chronic kidney disorders.
Ambulatory Care Services
Ambulatory Care Services provides quality medical care at a lower cost and in a minimum amount of time. Patients can be admitted, treated and released all in one day. The staff provides care to patients in comfortable surroundings and with individualized attention. For more information, call extension 8288.
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Cardiac Catheterization
The Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory provides services to inpatients and outpatients for the diagnosis and treatment of various heart diseases. It utilizes the latest in computerized radiologic imaging technology including filmless digital imaging, electrophysiologic hemodynamic monitoring and cardiovascular interventional devices. Specially trained nurses and radiologic technologists assist the cardiologists in all aspects of the procedures.
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Chapel
A chapel is located on the first floor of the Hale Pulama Mau building and is available 24 hours a day for use by residents, patients, their families and friends. Religious services for Christian, Buddhist and other denominations can be accommodated. Reservations for chapel use can be made through the nurses.
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Critical Care Units
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on the second floor of the Hale Kuakini building, the Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) and Progressive Care Unit (PCU) on the third floor of the Hale Kuakini building are highly specialized units where skilled professional nursing care is provided. Critically ill patients are under constant observation in these units using specialized monitoring equipment. Questions and concerns may be directed to the nurse in charge of each unit. For more information, refer to the Critical Care Handbook.
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Emergency Services
Emergency Services provides 24-hour comprehensive emergency care for the community. The staff consists of emergency medicine physicians, emergency nurses, and allied health personnel. Through a hospital-based communication system, the Emergency Services staff can maintain two-way radio communications with the emergency transport personnel while the patient is enroute to the hospital by either ambulance or helicopter.
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Gastroenterology (G.I.) Lab
Physicians and specially trained nurses provide diagnostic and therapeutic procedures related to the gastrointestinal system. The procedures are performed with specialized equipment called endoscopes, which are used to examine the esophagus, stomach and large intestines. Other procedures such as liver biopsies, gastrostomy tube placement, endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCPs), dilations and stent placements may also be done through this service. These procedures are performed on inpatients and outpatients.
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IV Therapy
Specially trained registered nurses provide 24-hour service to hospitalized patients requiring intravenous (inside the vein or I.V.) infusions of medication, fluid or blood products. The I.V. Therapy team assists the physicians and the nursing staff in the patient care units in providing safe and efficient intravenous care.
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Laboratory
The Laboratory Department operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week providing comprehensive tests to assist physicians in their diagnosis of their patient's problems. The laboratory services inpatients and outpatients and is staffed with licensed pathologists, clinical laboratory technologists, medical laboratory technicians and clinical laboratory assistants.
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Pharmacy
The Pharmacy Department provides for the pharmaceutical needs of hospitalized patients and outpatients treated in the Emergency Services, GI Lab, Ambulatory Care and Chemotherapy. Take-home prescriptions for patients being discharged from the Medical Center are filled for convenience. However, patients can inform their physicians of their preference to have their prescriptions filled at other pharmacies, especially if the patients have special drug plans which Kuakini's pharmacy may not participate in. The Pharmacy provides 24-hour service and has a computerized drug-monitoring program for the safe administration of drugs to patients. For maximum patient safety, a unit-dose drug distribution and an IV admixture service are utilized, in which only a 24-hour supply of drugs is prepared and sent to the nursing unit for each patient.Kuakini's Pharmacy is the first Hawaii hospital that uses an automated drug distribution system, the Robot Rx. The Robot Rx is a computer controlled robotic arm that can fill prescriptions accurately and faster than the Pharmacy staff.
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Radiation Therapy
Radiation Therapy uses a dual, high-energy linear accelerator that generates X-rays and electron particles to treat patients with cancer and other specific diseases. The latest technology in radiation therapy is available at Kuakini including a radiation therapy simulator and treatment-planning computer that are linked to the linear accelerator.
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Spritual Care/Chaplaincy
A Medical Center Chaplain is available to provide or arrange for spiritual support to patients and their families. The Chaplain is the Medical Center liaison for private clergy and is available for patient/resident and family counseling. Arrangements can be made through the nurses or Medical Social Workers.
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