Hawaiʻi’s First Nurse Midwife: The Groundbreaking Legacy of Alice Ting Hong Young
Minority Nurse
JULY 25, 2025
As she documented in her 1953 article in Nursing Outlook , Kohler initiated and coordinated the first childbirth education classes in Hawaii with obstetricians in private practice. The Kohlers retired to Hawaii in the mid-1960s. While in Taiwan, Alice Kohler worked in the obstetrics ward at the U.S. Navy Hospital.
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