A SIGN OF
commitment
WALK INTO THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE PALI MOMI MEDICAL CENTER AND
YOU MAY NOTICE SOMETHING NEW. A SIGN NOW DESIGNATES THE AREA
THE CLYDE AND HOLLY KANESHIRO LOBBY. THE KANESHIROS HAVE NEVER
BEEN TREATED THERE, BUT THE LIFESAVING CARE OF A CLOSE FRIEND AT
PALI MOMI CHANGED THEIR LIVES AND INSPIRED THEM TO GIVE.
Clyde and Harold Nakabayashi work
His wife, Rita, remembers one fright-
“The key step is we had a good cardiac
together at Honolulu Disposal Service.
ening moment when he stopped
ultrasound team that was able to
They are more than just coworkers.
responding. She rushed to his side.
get the right picture of the heart valve
Clyde’s father, Hideo, asked Harold to
join his company 40 years ago and in
the decades since, the Kaneshiros and
Nakabayashis have become ‘ohana. So
when Harold was rushed to the emergency room, it hit both homes hard.
“I went to work but I couldn’t make
it through the day,” Harold recalled.
“I came home and told my wife it’s
time to go the hospital.”
Harold was admitted to Pali Momi.
“I held his face to mine and said, ‘You
can’t leave yet,’” she said. “He kind of
came out of it. That’s when we found
out he had congestive heart failure.”
and measure the right pressures
so we could make the accurate
diagnosis,” said Harold’s cardiologist,
Dr. Abhijeet Koli. “[Harold’s recovery]
is just reaffirming to us, that this is
Harold was treated at Pali Momi’s
why we do what we do. We have
Cardiac Catheterization Lab—the only
a great team and a great group of
such unit in Central and West O‘ahu—
doctors that are as good as any place
and eventually had to undergo heart
in the country at performing these
surgery. Every test, every procedure
procedures.”
there helped Harold toward his
second chance at life.
His condition worsened.
“They didn’t know if I was going to
make it,” he said. “It was like ‘All hands
on deck.’ All of these doctors and
nurses were trying to decide what was
wrong with me.”
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“ ... we need to support the medical needs of Pali
Momi to give people, like our dear friend Harold,
every chance to live life to the fullest...”