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Queen's North Hawaii Community Hospital

Private, non-profit community hospital serving more than 30,000 residents and visitors in North Hawai'i on Hawai'i Island.

09/11/2025

Join the QNHCH Pet Partners pet therapy teams on September 28 as they join walkers and pets throughout the world participating in the World's Largest Pet Walk!

09/02/2025

QNHCH VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT
Are you looking for more meaning in your life? Do you want to do something that is satisfying and of great service to your community? Consider becoming a Queen’s North Hawai’i Community Hospital volunteer! Or bring along a friend and volunteer as a team!

Volunteers ages 16 and up are needed to support QNHCH patients and their families. No special skills are required. The only qualification required is your desire to help others.

Volunteers perform a variety of duties such as es**rt patients, greet visitors and provide directions, deliver comfort items to patients, work in the gift shop, office duties, deliver supplies, pet therapy, garden maintenance, information technology support, read to patients, and more!

To apply, visit https://www.volgistics.com/appform/1802370239

08/11/2025

Welcoming New Providers!
Najam Awan, MD, Cardiology Clinic

Welcome to Dr. Najam Awan! Dr. Awan is board-certified in both internal medicine and cardiology and has extensive experience caring for cardiac patients in New York, Oklahoma, California, and Hawai’i.

Dr. Awan earned his medical degree from King Edward Medical University in Pakistan. He completed his internship in internal medicine at Jewish Hospital and Medical Center, NY; residencies at Sinai Hospital, MD, and University of Oklahoma Medical Center, OK; and fellowships in cardiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, and University of California School of Medicine, Davis, CA.

Dr. Awan’s personal interests include Chinese furniture and Hawaiian culture and legends. Welcome Dr. Awan!

07/16/2025

After several years of planning, the QNHCH solar power project has kicked off. A solar field is being installed on QNHCH property at the south end of the hospital campus. This one-acre solar field is expected to produce over 1 million kwh per year, saving an estimated $170,000 annually, reducing the facility’s demand on the grid by 25%, and reducing the hospital’s carbon footprint. QNHCH has partnered with Tritium3, Hawai’i’s largest community solar developer, to install and maintain the system. A power purchase agreement will let QNHCH buy solar-produced power at a reduced rate.

The first phase of visible work started last week and includes the installation of landscaping surrounding the site, to be followed by new fencing. Trenching for the power line that will eventually connect the hospital to the solar field will begin in August. During the trenching phase, there will be traffic control measures in place as contractors dig between the main hospital (near the medical gas storage tanks) towards the helipad and beyond to the field. The Parker Ranch horses that have been grazing on the property will be moved off temporarily during construction, but it is expected that they will return once the solar field is complete. The project is estimated to be complete in October.

07/08/2025

Welcome to Dr. Yixin Chen, Women's Center

Dr. Yixin Chen earned bachelor’s degrees in nutritional science and biology from the University of Maryland, and her medical degree from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. She went on to complete her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine.

Dr. Chen holds certificates in laparoscopic surgery, cardiac life support, and neonatal resuscitation, and is a registered yoga teacher including prenatal yoga.

In addition to providing care at QNHCH, Dr. Chen also provides care at Queen’s Medical Center as well as at Queen’s clinics in Kahala and on Maui. Dr. Chen also has experience in teaching and research including studies on gestational diabetes. For an apppointment with Dr. Chen or any ther QNHCH provider, call 808-887-CARE.

07/03/2025

The amazing Rehabilitation Services Department at QNHCH recently teamed up with therapy animals "Hamish" and "Darby the Miniature Horse" to support this very special pediatric patient!

06/24/2025

June is Migraine and Headache Awareness Month. Migraines are more than headaches—they’re a complex brain disorder affecting over 39 million in the U.S. The Queen’s Headache and Facial Pain Center wants you to know: symptoms vary and may include nausea, fatigue, and light or sound sensitivity. If migraines disrupt your life, talk to your doctor. Start learning about conditions and treatments today: https://www.queens.org/services/neuroscience/headache-center/

06/17/2025

June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Health Awareness Month—a time to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Early diagnosis makes available more treatment options and better planning. At The Queen’s Brain and Memory Center, we provide compassionate, expert care using the latest research and therapies. To learn more, call 808-691-2540.

06/13/2025

A specially trained cat has joined the team at QNHCH. Whiskey, a three-year-old orange tabby cat, reported for his first shift of animal therapy today at QNHCH. Whiskey spent his first shift meeting staff and sleeping on patient beds.

Expanding the animal therapy team to include a cat gives allows the hospital to better meet the varied preferences of its patients.

The QNHCH animal therapy program consists of dogs teams as well as a miniature horse, and now a cat. Teams visit with patients, visitors and staff, bringing comfort, healing and joy to all.

Anyone interested in training and registering their pet as an therapy animal team can learn more at petpartners.org.

05/28/2025

HAPPY 29th BIRTHDAY TO QNHCH!
Queen’s North Hawai’i Community Hospital is the realization of a dream more than 60 years in the making -- a dream shared by two women, combined with the spirit and determination of an extraordinary community.

In the late 1800s, first cousins Lucy Kaopaulu Peabody and Lucy Kalanikumaiki’eki’e Davis Henriques dreamed of building a sanitarium to care for the people of North Hawai’i. In 1928, at the age of 88, Lucy Peabody died and left a 12-acre parcel of land, our current site, known as Makahikilua, to her cousin, Lucy Henriques. Upon her death five years later, Lucy Henriques left Makahikilua and a trust to fulfill the dream the two cousins shared of establishing a medical facility in North Hawai’i.

In 1969, a two-phase plan was recommended to achieve the long-term goal of an acute care facility in North Hawai’i. In 1977, Parker Ranch owner Richard Smart successfully led a drive to construct the Lucy Henriques Medical Center, the first in the two-phase plan.
Community concern for an acute care facility in Waimea continued and in 1989, residents established North Hawai’i Community Hospital, Inc., a private, nonprofit organization to complete the second of the two-phase plan. NHCH requested that the State grant half of the $25 million construction cost and raised the remaining $12.5 million through community fundraising efforts and private donations.

Earl Bakken, inventor of the pacemaker and founder of the medical-device firm Medtronic, became deeply involved in the planning, dreaming of creating “not just another hospital”, but one that treats the whole individual - mind, body and spirit. Earl coined the term “blended medicine” and helped shape NHCH’s unique approach to holistic, patient-centered care.

On May 28, 1996, NHCH officially opened its doors and merged with the Lucy Henriques Medical Center in 1999. In 2014, the hospital became a part of the Queen’s family and its name was changed to Queen’s North Hawai‘i Community Hospital in January 2020.

QNHCH is the culmination of decades of dreaming, set in motion by two women in the late 1800s. Their dream of caring for the people of North Hawai’i became a reality thanks to the compassion and determination of a whole community.

05/27/2025

At The Queen’s Neuroscience Institute, we believe that education is crucial to stroke prevention. 80% of strokes are preventable, and implementing healthy habits is key.

If stroke does happen, neurologists recommend calling 911. Faster treatment can help reduce permanent disability or death.

05/21/2025

New Graduate Nurse Recognition
Congratulations to new graduate nurse Jane Salazar! Jane is a new RN in our Mecal-Surgical Unit, and recently completed the QHS new graduate Nurse Residency Program.

The QHS new graduate Nurse Residency Program is a year-long training and mentoring program focused on supporting newly hired graduate nurses as they transition into their first professional nursing position. It provides dedicated time for clinical experience, mentorship, and team building. It also provides an opportunity to apply decision-making skills and incorporate evidence-based practice. Congratulations to Jane - we are so happy to have you caring for our community!

Address

67-1125 Mamalahoa Highway
Kamuela, HI
96743

Telephone

+18088854444

Website

http://www.nhch.com/

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