|
Health Care
NO
Image:
Friday, May 10, 2019 |
|
Wahiawa Hospital: New Partnership Supports Mental Health Needs
By News Release @ 8:28 PM :: 4187 Views :: Health Care, Homelessness
|
...there may be as many as 30 stabilization beds at WGH by early next year....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, May 7, 2019 |
|
The Role and Impact of Law Enforcement in Transporting Individuals with Severe Mental Illness
By News Release @ 9:21 PM :: 4448 Views :: Health Care, Law Enforcement
|
...Approximately one-third of individuals with severe mental illness have their first contact with mental health treatment through a law enforcement encounter....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 |
|
Hawaii 2nd Worst State for Nurses
By Selected News Articles @ 3:33 PM :: 4512 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
|
...2019’s Best & Worst States for Nurses....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 |
|
State of the Air: Hawaii Among the Cleanest
By News Release @ 4:16 PM :: 5851 Views :: Environment, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
|
...Hawaii Boasts Some of the Best Air Quality in the Nation According to the ‘State of the Air’ 2019 Report....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 |
|
DHS Audit: Significant Weaknesses and Deficiencies
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 4:10 AM :: 4864 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care
|
...auditors from KMH LLP reported one significant deficiency in internal control over financial reporting and 14 material weaknesses and three significant deficiencies in internal control over compliance....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 |
|
Legislature Votes to Fund Suicide Prevention
By News Release @ 10:53 PM :: 4644 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
|
...Task force statistics reveal youth, especially on neighbor islands, most at risk....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Thursday, April 18, 2019 |
|
Kids Oral Health--Hawaii Ranks Dead Last
By Selected News Articles @ 4:07 AM :: 4471 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
|
...this is the price Hawaii pays for pandering to anti-fluoridation nuts....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Thursday, April 11, 2019 |
|
Gabbard: US Health Care System Designed to 'keep people sick and on drugs'
By Selected News Articles @ 4:23 AM :: 4818 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Health Care
|
...This line of thinking is one step away from web sites touting “miracle cures THEY don’t want you to know about.”....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, April 10, 2019 |
|
|
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 |
|
Human Services Blueprint for COFA Citizens
By News Release @ 9:32 PM :: 3532 Views :: Health Care
|
...the State Department of Health spends $10 million annually in health care costs and the Department of Human Services spends $38 million in human services for COFA citizens....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, April 9, 2019 |
|
Hawaii: County by County Health Reports
By News Release @ 2:10 AM :: 4144 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
|
... Hawaii: County by County Overview ....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Saturday, April 6, 2019 |
|
UHERO: How Obamacare Affects Micronesian Health
By UHERO @ 5:49 PM :: 4199 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
|
...The Impact of Public Health Insurance on Medical Utilization in a Vulnerable Population: Evidence from COFA Migrants....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Monday, April 1, 2019 |
|
HHS Cuts Funding to Hawaii Planned Parenthood
By Selected News Articles @ 4:51 PM :: 6536 Views :: Family, Health Care, Life
|
...Trump Admin Awards $5.1 Million to Group of Pro-life Medical Clinics, Cuts Funding to Planned Parenthood....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Sunday, March 31, 2019 |
|
Hawaii Family Forum Legislative Week in Review
By Hawaii Family Forum @ 4:46 PM :: 5764 Views :: Family, Health Care, Life
|
...Suicide Prevention and Palliative Care bills still moving....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Monday, March 25, 2019 |
|
Best States for Doctors? Hawaii Ranks 46th
By Selected News Articles @ 12:34 PM :: 4385 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
|
...Hawaii ranks 51st for 'medical environment'....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Friday, March 22, 2019 |
|
High medical costs another threat to Hawaii taxpayers
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 10:08 PM :: 4871 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care
|
...higher medical costs increase our state’s debt — and Hawaii taxpayers might be the ones who end up paying for it....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Friday, March 22, 2019 |
|
Hawaii Sues Trump (again) Over Abortion (again)
By News Release @ 4:14 AM :: 7665 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Health Care, Life
|
...Since its creation in 2009, the TPP Program has provided nearly $1 billion....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Thursday, March 21, 2019 |
|
Disabled Inmates: Feds Reach Agreement with Hawaii DPS
By News Release @ 12:34 AM :: 4348 Views :: Health Care, Law Enforcement
|
...Justice Department Reaches Agreement With Hawaii Department of Public Safety to Ensure Equal Access to Its Programs for Inmates With Disabilities....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 |
|
Grant Supports Drive to make UH, Chaminade, Kauai CC 100% Tobacco Free
By News Release @ 5:23 AM :: 4294 Views :: Health Care, Higher Education
|
...support efforts to advocate for, adopt and implement 100 percent smoke- and tobacco-free policies, including limiting the use of e-cigarettes....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 |
|
I Was America’s First ‘Nonbinary’ Person. It Was All a Sham.
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:34 PM :: 6487 Views :: Ethics, Family, Health Care
|
... Four years ago, I wrote about my decision to live as a woman in The New York Times ....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Sunday, March 10, 2019 |
|
Hawaii Supreme Court: Must Employer Hold Open Injured Worker's Position Eternally?
By Robert Thomas @ 4:33 PM :: 5194 Views :: Health Care, Labor, Small Business
|
...Amicus Brief: Employer Can Fill Injured Worker's Position If There Are Legitimate Business Reasons For Doing So....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Sunday, March 10, 2019 |
|
TelAbortion: Hawaii Doctors, Lawyers Plan the Abortion Future
By Selected News Articles @ 12:19 AM :: 5274 Views :: Health Care, Life
|
...As of the end of January, two hundred and eighty-three women had received TelAbortions, a hundred and fifty-eight of them in Hawaii....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 |
|
Hawaii Sues Trump Over Abortion Sales Pitch
By News Release @ 8:47 PM :: 5030 Views :: Health Care, Life
|
... Under the new rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, providers in any clinic that receives Title X funding will be barred from referring a patient for an abortion ....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Sunday, March 3, 2019 |
|
HB664 / SB674: Legislators Push Sex Change for Autistic Children
By Andrew Walden @ 9:38 PM :: 7305 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
|
...Millions of dollars from the DoE budget are on the line if HB664 or SB674 “Relating to Gender Identity” becomes law....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Sunday, March 3, 2019 |
|
Grassroot Institute Plans Events on Oahu, Maui
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:03 PM :: 3224 Views :: Health Care
|
...Why is health care so expensive?...Who is winning the Battle of Ideas?....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Thursday, February 28, 2019 |
|
SB1009 Negates Public Health Benefits of Vaping
By Selected News Articles @ 4:16 AM :: 6191 Views :: Health Care, Small Business, Taxes
|
... SB1009 threatens the efficacy of a tobacco harm reduction tool that has helped millions of adult Americans quit smoking cigarettes ....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 |
|
Housing Instability and Crowding a Hardship for Hawaii Babies
By News Release @ 5:58 PM :: 6493 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
|
...Hawaii ranks among top half of all states for babies, according to a first-of-its kind report. The State of Babies Yearbook: 2019....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, February 27, 2019 |
|
Hawaii Tops U.S. in Wellbeing for Record 7th Time
By News Release @ 4:30 AM :: 4339 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
|
...Hawaii residents reported the highest wellbeing in the U.S. in 2018, reaching the top spot for the seventh time since Gallup began tracking wellbeing in 2008....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Monday, February 25, 2019 |
|
Hawaii Nursing Homes Highest Quality in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:59 PM :: 4225 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
|
...The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have created a five-star, quality rating system for nursing homes....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Monday, February 11, 2019 |
|
Medical Care is a Right—Except When it isn’t
By Mary Smart @ 9:41 PM :: 4777 Views :: Health Care, Life
|
...In the State of Hawaii we protect turtle eggs and other animals, and yet we don’t give the same protections to our young humans....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Friday, February 8, 2019 |
|
HB1184: Legislators Vote Down Infant Born Alive Protection Bill
By Mary Smart @ 5:21 AM :: 6900 Views :: Health Care, Life
|
... it is the first time in many years that a PRO-LIFE bill was actually heard in a committee ....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Thursday, February 7, 2019 |
|
VA Town Hall Set for Honolulu
By News Release @ 6:09 PM :: 4552 Views :: Health Care, Military
|
...To share information, resources, hear feedback from customers and to answer questions on VA health care, benefits, and memorial affairs....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 |
|
There’s insufficient evidence your sunscreen harms coral reefs
By Selected News Articles @ 1:56 AM :: 6243 Views :: Environment, Health Care, Tourism
|
...the few studies that have addressed the environmental impacts of sunscreens experimentally “are not representative of real world conditions”....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, February 5, 2019 |
|
Hawaii's dangerous idea: Allowing people to smoke is equivalent to killing them
By Selected News Articles @ 3:16 PM :: 5460 Views :: Health Care, Life, Taxes
|
...This way of thinking could justify government intervention in nearly all aspects of a person's life....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Saturday, February 2, 2019 |
|
States with the Best Dental Health -- Hawaii Ranks 15th
By Selected News Articles @ 7:41 PM :: 3645 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
|
...data set ranges from share of adolescents who visited a dentist in the past year to dental treatment costs to share of adults with low life satisfaction due to oral condition....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Saturday, February 2, 2019 |
|
Auditor: Should Insurers be Required to Cover Mainland Air Ambulance?
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 6:54 PM :: 3013 Views :: Health Care
|
...The two largest health insurance providers in the State reported a total of 28 members that were recommended for medical transportation to the continental United States for treatment in 2016 and 2017. Insurance coverage was not provided in 11 cases, all of which involved members from a single insurance provider....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Thursday, January 31, 2019 |
|
Medicaid Fraud: DHS Still Not Doing the Real Work
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 3:32 AM :: 5853 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Health Care, Law Enforcement
|
...The recommendations not implemented are the ones where DHS actually has to go out and catch fraudsters, instead of just talking about it....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 |
|
Hawaii receives mixed grades on tobacco prevention and cessation
By News Release @ 11:04 PM :: 4958 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Taxes
|
...American Lung Association ‘State of Tobacco Control’ Report Finds Hawaii Must Do More to Prevent, Reduce Tobacco Use....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Tuesday, January 29, 2019 |
|
Bullying, Safe Places: 2019 Keiki Caucus Package
By News Release @ 12:00 PM :: 5416 Views :: Education K-12, Family, Health Care
|
...Bills include tobacco restrictions, bullying prevention, safe places for youth....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Sunday, January 27, 2019 |
|
Naming Names: Hawaii Politicians Profit from Sub-Minimum Wage Sweatshops for the Disabled
By Selected News Articles @ 8:36 PM :: 9121 Views :: Ethics, Health Care, Labor
|
...secrets of the system in our state through which public funds are funneled into private pockets while workers with disabilities toil away in sweatshops....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Friday, January 25, 2019 |
|
Video: Origins of the Opioid Crisis
By Video @ 10:10 PM :: 4889 Views :: Health Care, Drugs
|
...Dr. Jeffrey Singer exposes the facts and myths about the opioid overdose problem in the United States....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, January 16, 2019 |
|
DoH Reports 23,479 Medicated Dopers Statewide
By News Release @ 1:35 AM :: 5314 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Drugs
|
...As of Nov. 30, 2018 there were approximately 6,659 registered patients and 383 caregivers on Hawai‘i Island of the total 23,479 patients and 1,734 caregivers registered statewide. The primary reported condition for adult registered patients is ‘severe pain’. The primary reported condition for children under 18 years of age is ‘seizures’....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Thursday, January 10, 2019 |
|
Hawaii Smokers Lose $48K Per Year
By Selected News Articles @ 3:02 AM :: 4752 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Cost of Living
|
...The Real Cost of Smoking by State....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 |
|
Disabled: Hawaii Ranks 6th for Service, 49th for Opportunity
By News Release @ 6:31 PM :: 4680 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
|
...The Case for Inclusion 2019 Ranks States on Policies and Programs that Encourage Employment and Community Living....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 |
|
SPED Parents Asked to Sign up for Medicaid
By News Release @ 1:09 AM :: 4383 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
|
...Medicaid may provide a partial reimbursement for medically and educationally necessary, health-related services when required for a student through his or her Individualized Education Plan....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Friday, January 4, 2019 |
|
Government-Funded Sweatshops: No Minimum Wage for Hawaii Disabled Workers
By Selected News Articles @ 9:39 PM :: 8354 Views :: Ethics, Health Care, Labor, Small Business
|
...people with disabilities in Hawaii often work for pennies per hour while living on welfare benefits....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Friday, December 28, 2018 |
|
Obamacare Waiver: Hawaii Only State to Skip Reinsurance
By Selected News Articles @ 11:45 PM :: 6547 Views :: Health Care, Cost of Living
|
...Reinsurance programs help insulate insurers from heavy losses if they end up enrolling a higher-risk population with higher claims. Insurers can thus lower their premiums, instead of raising rates....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, December 26, 2018 |
|
Schatz: My Bills Designed to Trick Public into Accepting Socialized Medicine
By Selected News Articles @ 2:32 PM :: 4863 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Health Care
|
...Democratic Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii said in an interview. “This is about moving the so-called Overton window.”....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Thursday, December 20, 2018 |
|
UH Study: Tweekers 15.1% of Emergency Room Traffic at Hawaii Hospital
By News Release @ 2:17 PM :: 5865 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Drugs
|
...Amphetamine-positive patients spent more time per visit on average in the emergency department and were more likely to require medication and physical restraints....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
Monday, December 17, 2018 |
|
National Report: Hawaii Ranks 13th in Protecting Kids from Tobacco
By News Release @ 9:19 PM :: 5873 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Taxes
|
...Hawaii is spending $4.5 million this year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is just 32.9 percent of the $13.7 million recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
|
Read
More.. |
|
|
|
|
|