Molokaʻi · Healthcare · Community

Amelia Kahananui

Kaunakakai · 1950s

Community health nurse who served rural Molokaʻi families for thirty-eight years.

Conversations

1. House calls on a road that floods

   7/24/2026

   Amelia Kahananui on rural nursing, trust, and why she never once asked a family for paperwork at the door.

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   You do not start with the clipboard. You start by sitting down. Sometimes I sat for an hour before anybody told me who was actually sick. That hour is the care.

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