How Hawaii Clinics Found New Ways To Reach Patients During The Pandemic…Relaxed rules and increased funding have led to new initiatives such as mobile clinics. Will it last?
The pandemic may have doubled the workload of Hawaii’s community health clinics and nonprofits, but new funding and more relaxed rules have provided unexpected opportunities and collaborations, local health leaders say.
As a result, many have actually expanded their services and forged new outreach programs — meeting patients where they are to care for them on the spot.
Maui’s Malama I Ke Ola Health Center has worked with rural and low-income patients for decades, but it wasn’t until a few months ago it was able to afford to launch a brand new program to bring medical services and prescriptions to homeless people where they live.
