Academy\u00a0of Health &\u00a0Sciences<\/a>\u00a0is a practicing physician on their high school campus, while serving the community where they grew up,” Waipahu High Principal Zachary Sheets said.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOnce opened, Hawai\u2018i Pacific Health (HPH) will run the clinic and offer medical services for the Waipahu community. Students in Waipahu High’s Health & Sciences Academy will have the opportunity to get hands-on training ranging from administrative to clinical work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis academic health center will provide access to care for a community with few resources available and provides an excellent training facility for our various health care programs currently at the school,\u201d Carl Hinson, HPH’s director of workforce development, said. \u201cOur hope is that this brings the Waipahu community an even greater sense of pride in their community and campus as well as serve as an innovative model for other high schools across the state and country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stakeholders and partners gathered at the site for a project blessing on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hawai\u2018i 3Rs is leading the construction management of the center. It partnered with G70 to design the floor plan and awarded the construction bid to S&M Sakamoto. The building formerly served as an Adult Education Center at the school. Construction will begin in the summer and is expected to be complete by November. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is a great project that we hope will set an example for other public schools on what can happen when partners come together to assist in workforce development and career pathways,\u201d Hawai\u2018i 3Rs Acting Executive Director Kalowena Komeiji said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Work is underway on an academic health center at Waipahu High School through a partnership with the Hawai\u2018i State Department of Education, Hawai\u2018i Pacific Health Medical Group and Hawai\u2018i 3Rs. The academic health center will provide authentic learning opportunities for students to be industry-ready to fill high skill, living wage jobs in Hawai\u2018i, according to Superintendent […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","wp_popup_display_lightbox":0,"wp_popup_suppress":"","wp_popup_trigger":"","wp_popup_trigger_amount":0,"wp_popup_disable_on_mobile":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":21,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Chanel Honda","author_link":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/author\/chanel-hondak12-hi-us\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":21,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":21,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":309,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":21,"category_count":309,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 18:09:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_status","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiipublicschools.org\/haw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}