HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Maui’s oldest upcountry hospital is celebrating its 115th birthday this year.
Kula Hospital was built in 1936. At the time, the facility was known as Kula Sanatorium, or Kula San for short.
“It was strictly a tuberculosis hospital,” said 89-year-old Pauline Shiroma, who worked there for more than 30 years as a registered nurse, at first taking care of tuberculosis or TB patients…