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 ...

D. M. Kaaiakmanu and J. K. Akina, employees of the the Board of Health for the Territory of Hawai‘i, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Acting on a study funded by the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce, the territorial legislature of Hawai‘i ...

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