Hawai‘i establishes the Bureau of Public Health Nursing. ... Medicine Ways ... Hawai‘i

The U.S. Signal Corps establishes a radio network to link Alaska Native villages with doctors and nurses ...

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace open the Little Flower Hospital in Ketchikan to serve all members ...

Named after Peter Trimble Rowe, who heads the Anglican Church in Alaska, Bishop Rowe Hospital opens ...

The first air transport service for the sick and injured begins in Alaska. Its first flight brings patients ...

The O‘ahu Insane Asylum, opened by King Kamehameha IV in 1866 on the Iolani Palace grounds in Honolulu, ...

The Sisters of Providence establish a large Providence Hospital in Anchorage. The hospital serves both ...

The Yurok shaman Fanny Flounder is celebrated for her ability to use a hollow bone to suck sickness ...

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota appoints a health committee, a model that other tribes soon ...

The Territorial Department of Health uses the ship the M/S Hygiene to deliver medical services to isolated ...