Many Hawaii schoolkids going without routine vaccinations
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/02/13/hawaii-news/many-hawaii-schoolkids-going-without-routine-vaccinations/
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Hawaii sees first pediatric flu death since 2020
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/02/10/breaking-news/hawaii-records-first-pediatric-flu-death-since-2020/
Hawaii Is Short Medical Workers. Are Interstate Compacts The Solution? 2 A string of bills allowing the state to join different industry compacts will be heard in the Senate on Friday, with lawmakers hoping that their passage will expand medical access.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/02/hawaii-is-short-medical-workers-are-interstate-compacts-the-solution/
Empty shelves for kids’ medicines continue
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/02/06/hawaii-news/empty-shelves-for-kids-medicines-continue/
‘An incredible partnership’: School-Based Health Centers open in West Hawaii
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2023/02/06/hawaii-news/an-incredible-partnership-school-based-health-centers-open-in-west-hawaii/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news
Hawaii researchers study potential treatment for rare breast cancer
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/02/05/hawaii-news/hawaii-researchers-study-potential-treatment-for-rare-breast-cancer/
University of Hawaii Cancer Center aims to restore clinical trials
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/02/04/hawaii-news/university-of-hawaii-cancer-center-aims-to-restore-clinical-trials/
Researchers Hope Hawaii Lawmakers Fund Cancer Research This Year 0 A new study would seek to get to the bottom of why Native Hawaiians, Filipinos and Pacific Islanders face high rates of many cancers.
The Legislature is facing a myriad of requests for funding during this year’s session, but researchers at the University of...
Kona Community Hospital seeks $20M for repairs
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/01/30/hawaii-news/kona-community-hospital-seeks-20m-for-repairs/
Hawaii Ordered An Acupuncturist To Stop Practicing. Three Years Later, He Still Was 0 Mike Hashimoto, an architect of the state’s regulation of acupuncture, asked the state to intervene in a billing dispute last year despite his agreement to not treat patients.
In early 2022, Mike Hashimoto made a complaint to the state agency in charge of regulating insurance that Geico had...
Hawaii Bill Aims To Make It Easier To Do Dialysis At Home 1 The bill is being pushed by a multinational company from Illinois that wants to sell products in Hawaii more cheaply.
A legislative proposal to change in a little-known provision of Hawaii’s health care regulations could make it cheaper and easier...
Task force, lawmaker working on measure to legalize fentanyl test strips
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2023/01/24/hawaii-news/task-force-lawmaker-working-on-measure-to-legalize-fentanyl-test-strips/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news
‘It’s Horrendous’: The Deaths Of 2 Doctors Deepen The Void In Rural Health Care Access 0 Nearly half of Molokai’s population lost their primary care physician in a state that has long struggled to attract and retain medical professionals.
Doctors have long been in short supply on Molokai, where residents must board a plane to access specialized care and...
Nonprofit reports needle exchange record
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2023/01/17/hawaii-news/nonprofit-reports-needle-exchange-record/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news
Hospital operating at capacity but COVID, RSV and the flu aren’t to blame
https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2023/01/16/hawaii-news/hospital-operating-at-capacity-but-covid-rsv-and-the-flu-arent-to-blame/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily_news
Department of Health no longer wants 2 Oahu hospitals
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/01/15/hawaii-news/doh-no-longer-wants-2-oahu-hospitals/
A Sweeping Plan To Reinvent Kauai’s Oldest Hospital Is ‘Getting Close To The Vision’ 0 The projected $400 million project on the 34-acre property would upgrade the medical facility while creating a civic hub around schools, pubic safety and affordable housing.
Samuel Mahelona Memorial Hospital was built in 1917 to isolate and treat people diagnosed with tuberculosis. Once admitted, patients were...
Hawaii Hospital Giant Reaches Tentative Deal With Nurses 3 Nurses at Hawaii Pacific Health’s Straub Medical Center have until Friday to accept or reject a proposed union contract.
Nurses at Straub Medical Center got a New Year’s gift this week in the form of a tentative agreement that...
Hilo Medical Center awaits $50M expansion OK
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/01/09/hawaii-news/hilo-medical-center-awaits-50m-expansion-ok/
Hefty subsidies continue for Hawaii’s state-run hospitals
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/01/08/hawaii-news/hefty-subsidies-continue-for-hawaiis-state-run-hospitals/
