Tripler Army Medical Center (TAMC) is a major United States Department of Defense medical facility administered by the
United States Army in the state of
Hawaii. It is the tertiary care hospital in the
Pacific Rim, serving local active and retired military personnel along with residents of nine U.S. jurisdictions and forces deployed in more than 40 other countries in the region.[1] Located on the slopes of Moanalua Ridge[2] overlooking the
Honolulu neighborhoods of
Moanalua and
Salt Lake, Tripler Army Medical Center's massive
coral pink structure can be seen from any point in the
Honolulu District. It also serves as headquarters of the Regional Health Command - Pacific.[3]The main hospital facility is within the Honolulu
census-designated place.[4]
Tripler Army Medical Center was commissioned by
Lt. GeneralRobert C. Richardson Jr., who was
Military Governor of the
Territory of Hawaiʻi during World War II.[7] General Richardson hired the
New York City based architectural firm of
York & Sawyer to design the medical complex. The local landscape architect Robert O. Thompson designed the landscape to be "one of the great beauty spots of Hawaii", although his plans were never fully realized.[8][9] At the outbreak of
World War II, Tripler Army Medical Center had a 450-bed capacity which then expanded to 1,000 beds through the addition of barracks-type buildings.
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