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Kaiser's milestone is woman's birthday


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POSTED: Thursday, November 27, 2008

When Kaiser Permanente celebrates, so does the Bellefeuille family.

Henrietta Kaiserleen Bellefeuille Moike of Keeau on the Big Island was the first baby born Nov. 26, 1958, when Kaiser opened its first hospital at Ala Moana.

“;I've grown up with them,”; she said. “;They make me feel like a celebrity. What they're doing for me is a great birthday gift.”;

Kaiser brought her entire family to Honolulu for 50th-anniversary events earlier this month.

According to her mother, Alice, now 85, Moike said, “;It was actually planned for her to go to Kaiser to give birth”; if the Ala Moana hospital was open. “;I guess the timing was right.”;

Her mother later went to work at the hospital as a housekeeper. She now lives with daughter Jeannine Bellefeuille-Holi of Waipahu, a nurse in the surgery department at Kaiser's Moanalua Medical Center.

Moike said two of her three children were born at Kaiser Hospital, “;the one I was born in.”; The third was born in Hilo Hospital.

Her family participated in a 50th-anniversary party for Kaiser doctors and personnel in Hilo at the Imiloa Astronomy Center.

She said Kaiser Permanente has invited her to every anniversary event since she was about 10 years old.

It doubled as a birthday celebration - her 50th, yesterday.