Wilcox Medical Center
hospital in Hawaii, United States
Wilcox Medical Center is part of Hawaii Pacific Health's network. One of Kauaʻi island's three hospitals, Wilcox Medical Center provides Kauaʻi residents with an imaging center, emergency department, and surgical center.
History
George Norton Wilcox and Dora Isenberg planned a community hospital with a staff open to all eligible physicians on Kauaʻi. It opened on November 1, 1938, with the official dedication of a T-shaped two-story building on 17 acres (6.9 ha) of land donated by the Lihue Plantation. It was built at a cost of $200,000. More than 1,000 Kauaʻi residents attended the ceremony, and 15 days later the new 96-bed hospital accepted its first patients.
Periodic expansion programs continued over the years. The first expansion took place from 1955 to 1958 with the addition of a kitchen, an obstetrical wing, medical library, conference room and additional space for laboratory and X-ray departments. Another milestone was reached in 1966 with the advent of the Outpatient Department built adjacent to the main hospital. Plantation dispensaries were phased out at this time and the eastside physicians began practice in the facilities, later forming the Kauai Medical Group Inc.
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