{"id":222849,"date":"2025-09-30T15:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=222849"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:27:36","slug":"community-celebrates-htc-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/30\/community-celebrates-htc-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Community celebrates UH<\/abbr> Hyperbaric Treatment Center\u2019s 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Derek Wong (UHP Interim CEO), Tyler Dos Santos-Tam (Honolulu City Councilmember), and Steven Hankins (HTC Medical Director).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thousands of patients, from divers stricken with “the bends” to cancer survivors coping with radiation injuries, have found lifesaving care at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Hyperbaric Treatment Center<\/a> (HTC<\/abbr>). On September 27, nearly 100 people gathered at Kuakini Medical Center\u2019s Hale Pulama Mau Auditorium to celebrate HTC<\/abbr>\u2019s 40th anniversary and honor its legacy of healing.<\/p>\n

Related UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story: Hyperbaric Treatment Center marks 40 years of life-saving care in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

HTC<\/abbr>, a clinical program of UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> (JABSOM<\/abbr>) and operated by University Health Partners (UHP) of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, remains the Pacific\u2019s only 24\/7 public hyperbaric facility.<\/p>\n

The celebration featured guided tours, historical displays, and a clinical information session spotlighting HTC<\/abbr>\u2019s evolution and achievements since its opening in 1983. Attendees included physicians, staff, community members and state lawmakers. The center was formally recognized with certificates from both the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> State Legislature and Honolulu City Council for its decades of service to the state.<\/p>\n

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Sen. Donna Mercado-Kim with JABSOM Professor Chip Hixon and Dean Sam Shomaker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since its founding, HTC<\/abbr> has treated more than 5,000 patients and is projected to surpass 40,000 individual treatments by the end of 2025. The center delivers hyperbaric oxygen therapy for 15 recognized conditions, including decompression sickness, diabetic ulcers, radiation-related injuries, sudden hearing loss, severe infections, and other non-healing wounds.<\/p>\n

Beyond patient care, the Hyperbaric Treatment Center provides hands-on training opportunities for medical students, giving future physicians practical experience in hyperbaric medicine while strengthening care capacity across Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and the Pacific.<\/p>\n

For more, go to JABSOM<\/abbr>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The celebration highlighted the facility\u2019s decades of lifesaving care and hands-on medical training in Hawai\u02bbi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":222888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[643,31,911,9],"class_list":["post-222849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-anniversary","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-program-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/manoa-jabsom-htc-40-certificate.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222849"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222925,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222849\/revisions\/222925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}