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{{short description|Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi}}
{{Use American English|date=August 2025}}
{{Infobox hospital
| name                = Tripler Army Medical Center
| org_group           = [[Defense Health Agency]]
| logo                = Tripler Army Medical Center dui.png
| logo_size           = 110px
| image               = Tripler AMC Front.jpg
| image_size          = 260px
| caption             = Main hospital building
| coordinates         = {{Coord|21|21|43|N|157|53|22|W|display=inline, title| type:landmark}}
| pushpin_map_caption = Location on the big island
| location            = 
| address             = 1 Jarrett White Road
| region              = [[Honolulu]]
| state               = [[Hawaii]]
| country             = U.S.
| healthcare          = [[Tricare]]
| funding             = Government
| type                = [[Military hospital]]
| emergency           = [[Level II Trauma Center]]<ref name="State of Hawaii, Department of Health Emergency Medical Services & Injury Prevention System Branch">{{cite web |title=Hawaii Comprehensive Statewide Trauma System Plan May 2021 |url=https://health.hawaii.gov/emsipsb/files/bsk-pdf-manager/2025/04/Hawaii-Trauma-Plan-2020-5.21.2021-3.pdf}}</ref>
| beds                = 231<ref>{{cite web |title=Tripler Army Medical Center |url=https://health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/DHA-GME/Institutions/Tripler}}</ref>
| helipad             = Yes
| opened              = 1907
| constructed         = 1948 (current building)
| website             = {{official URL}}
}}

'''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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tamc.amedd.army.mil/information/about_tamc/aboutUs.htm|title=Tripler Army Medical Center, About Us|publisher=U.S. Army |work= Tripler Army Medical Center|access-date=August 10, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171029161948/https://www.tamc.amedd.army.mil/information/about_tamc/aboutUs.htm |archive-date= October 29, 2017}}</ref> Located on the slopes of Moanalua Ridge<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.tamc.amedd.army.mil/information/visiting_tripler.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130329181314/http://www.tamc.amedd.army.mil/information/visiting_tripler.htm |url-status= dead |archive-date= March 29, 2013 |title=Tripler Army Medical Center, Visiting Tripler|publisher=U.S. Army |work= Tripler Army Medical Center|access-date=August 11, 2020 }}</ref> overlooking the [[Honolulu]] neighborhoods of [[Moanalua]] and [[Salt Lake, Hawaii|Salt Lake]], Tripler Army Medical Center's massive [[Coral (color)|coral]] pink structure can be seen from any point in the [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu District]]. It also serves as headquarters of the Regional Health Command - Pacific.<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Army Medical Command Readiness, Pacific |url=https://www.army.mil/rhcpacific |access-date=2022-04-22 |website=www.army.mil |language=en}}</ref> The main hospital facility is within the Honolulu [[census-designated place]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st15_hi/place/p1571550_urban_honolulu/DC10BLK_P1571550_000.pdf|title=2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP (INDEX): Urban Honolulu CDP, HI |publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2020-10-11}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st15_hi/place/p1571550_urban_honolulu/DC10BLK_P1571550_004.pdf Page 4]</ref>

==History==
Tripler Hospital was established in 1907, housed in several wooden structures within [[Fort Shafter]] on the island of [[Oahu|O{{okina}}ahu]].<ref name=History/>  In 1920 it was named after a legendary [[American Civil War]] surgeon, [[Brevet (military)|Brevet]] [[Brigadier general (United States)|Brigadier General]] [[Charles Stuart Tripler]] (1806–1866), who made significant contributions to the development of military medicine.<ref name=History>{{cite web|url=https://www.army.mil/article/191568/tripler_past_and_present|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810160948/https://www.army.mil/article/191568/tripler_past_and_present|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 10, 2020|title=Tripler Past and Present|website=U.S. Army|access-date=May 2, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Demolished">{{cite news |date=May 19, 1959 |title=Historic 'Old Tripler' Is Demolished |page=9 |work=[[Honolulu Star-Bulletin]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89514354/historic-old-tripler-is-demolished/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |accessdate=November 24, 2021}}</ref>

Tripler Army Medical Center was commissioned by [[Lieutenant general (United States)|Lt. General]] [[Robert C. Richardson Jr.]], who was [[Governor|Military Governor]] of the [[Territory of Hawaii|Territory of Hawai{{okina}}i]] during World War II.<ref name= Thompson85p127>{{cite book |title= Pacific Ocean Engineers: History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, 1905–1980 |date= 1985 |author= Thompson, Edwin N. |publisher= U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division|asin= B0006EJBO6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FZicGQuHhCUC&q=Robert%20C.%20Richardson 127]}}</ref> 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.<ref name= Thompson85p131>{{cite book |title= Pacific Ocean Engineers: History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, 1905–1980 |date= 1985 |author= Thompson, Edwin N. |publisher= U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division|asin= B0006EJBO6 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=FZicGQuHhCUC&dq=York+%26+Sawyer+Tripler+Thompson&pg=PA153 131]}}</ref><ref name= Thompson85p153>{{cite book |title= Pacific Ocean Engineers: History of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, 1905–1980 |date= 1985 |author= Thompson, Edwin N. |publisher= U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division|asin= B0006EJBO6 |page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=FZicGQuHhCUC&dq=York+%26+Sawyer+Tripler+Thompson&pg=PA153 153]}}</ref> 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.

===Present Day===
[[File:Tripler Army Medical Center photo taken in 1960.jpg|thumb|left|upright=2.0|Tripler Army Medical Center in 1960]]
Plans for the new Tripler Army Medical Center on Moanalua Ridge were drawn in 1942 and construction was completed in 1948.<ref name=History /> The [[General Bronze Corporation]], known for [[New York City|New York City's]] [[Mies van der Rohe]]-designed [[Seagram Building]],<ref name="NYTimes Seagrams">{{cite news |last1=Ennis |first1=Thomas |title=Building is Designer's Testament |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1957/11/10/90853549.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |access-date=17 December 2023 |issue=November 10, 1957 |work=The New York Times |pages=313, 320 |quote=Seagram Building Marks Apex Of Mies van der Rohe's Career}}</ref><ref name="NYC Skyscrapers-Seagrams">{{cite book |last1=Nash |first1=Eric |title=Manhattan Skyscrapers |date=1999 |publisher=Princeton Architectural Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=1-56898-181-3 |pages=105–106 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3aAA2Di1YkC&q=seagrams |access-date=16 December 2023}}</ref> the [[Atlas (statue)|Atlas]]<ref name="Columbia's Bronze Archive">{{cite web |last1=General Bronze Corporation |title=The General Bronze Corporation and Rene Paul Chambellan |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc2.ark:/13960/s258s75zhfq&seq=8 |website=Internet Archive, Columbia University |publisher=General Bronze Corporation |access-date=17 December 2023 |year=1946}}</ref> and [[Prometheus (Manship)|Prometheus]]<ref name="Columbia's Bronze Archive" /> [[bronze sculpture]]s in [[Rockefeller Center]], the bronze doors for the [[United States Supreme Court Building|United States Supreme Court]] and [[Herbert C. Hoover Building|Commerce]] buildings,<ref name="NYT Polachek dies">{{cite news |title=John Polachek, An Industrialist |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1955/04/18/93802563.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |access-date=18 December 2023 |work=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Publishing |date=18 April 1955 |location=Obituaries |pages=22 |quote=In 1903, he became a supervisor of bronze manufacturing for Tiffany Studios. Founder of General Bronze Corporation Dies – Products Adorn Leading Buildings}}</ref> the aluminum windows for the [[United Nations Secretariat Building|United Nations Secretariat]],<ref name="UN Secretariat by Progressive Architecture with Bronze Windows">{{cite journal |title=GENERAL BRONZE BUILDS THE WORLD'S LARGEST WINDOW |journal=Progressive Architecture |date=June 1950 |volume=31 |issue=6 |pages=19, 51 |url=https://usmodernist.org/PA/PA-1950-06.PDF#page=58 |access-date=21 December 2023 |publisher=Reinhold Publishing Corporation |location=New York |language=English}}</ref><ref name="NYC Skyscrapers-United Nations Secretariat">{{cite book |last1=Nash |first1=Eric |title=Manhattan Skyscrapers |date=1999 |publisher=Princeton Architectural Press |location=Princeton, New Jersey |isbn=1-56898-181-3 |pages=99–100 |edition=1st |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3aAA2Di1YkC&q=united%20nations%20secretariat |access-date=16 December 2023}}</ref><ref name="NY Times UN Building glass panes">{{cite news |last1=Barrett |first1=George |title=UN Capital model shows much glass |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/09/17/87816512.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |access-date=21 December 2023 |work=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times Publishing |date=17 September 1947 |location=New York |pages=2 |quote=Massive Panes and Thousands of Smaller Ones Mark a Radical New Design}}</ref> [[28 Liberty Street|Chase Manhattan Bank]],<ref name="Chase Landmarks Commission">{{cite web |title=ONE CHASE MANHATTAN PLAZA |url=https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2294.pdf |website=NYC.gov |publisher=Landmarks Preservation Commission – NYC |access-date=22 December 2023 |location=New York City, NY |pages=6 |date=10 February 2009 |quote=The General Bronze Corporation engineered and manufactured the ¼ inch thick aluminum panels}}</ref><ref name="Architectural Forum 1961-Chase">{{cite journal |last1=Tanner |first1=Ogden |last2=Allison |first2=David |last3=Blake |first3=Peter |last4=McQuade |first4=Walter |title=The Chase — Portrait of a Giant |journal=Architectural Forum |date=July 1961 |volume=115 |issue=1 |pages=66–94 |url=https://usmodernist.org/AF/AF-1961-07.pdf |access-date=22 December 2023 |quote=Recessed flush with the inside faces of the huge aluminum-sheathed columns, the curtain wall consists of a two-tone aluminum spandrel and sill panel and an 8-foot-high window of clear glass}}</ref> fabricated the aluminum windows for the Tripler Army Base Hospital<ref name="NY Times Tripler Air Force Base aluminum">{{cite web |title=GENERAL BRONZE CO. IN ALUMINUM FIELD – Mass Production of Window Frames for Residential Use Throughout U.S. Started RECORD ORDER COMPLETED Includes 4,500 for New Army Hospital Under Construction on Oahu Island, Hawaii |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1946/02/08/93041527.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0 |website=[[The New York Times]] |pages=32 |language=English |date=8 February 1946 |quote=Certain of the excellent future for aluminum window frames, the General Bronze Corporation, Long Island City, has started mass production of such items for residential use throughout the country}}</ref>

In 1959, the original hospital was demolished to make way for expansion of [[Interstate H-201|Moanalua Road]] (now Interstate H-201).<ref name="Demolished"/>

==Education==
The installation has housing within the premises.  [[Hawaii Department of Education]] operates public schools for dependent children of service members. As of 2016, zoned schools are Moanalua Elementary School, Moanalua Middle School, and [[Moanalua High School]].<ref name=Schoollist>{{cite web|url=https://hawaii.armymwr.com:443/application/files/9014/9327/0453/Hawaii_School_Information_SLO.pdf|title=Hawaii School Information School Year 2016-2017|publisher=Army Family and MWR Hawaii|page=4/5|access-date=2024-10-28}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of hospitals in Hawaii]]
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{cite web|url=http://www.tamc.amedd.army.mil/|title=Tripler Army Medical Center|publisher= U.S. Army|access-date=August 10, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200622083540/https://www.tamc.amedd.army.mil/ |archive-date= June 22, 2020}}

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