Health Care

...Will HGEA/UPW $40M Shakedown stand up in court?....

...part of a larger initiative to transform medical care for serious illness in the state of Hawaii....

Today’s order lasts only until September 30, 2016, unless sooner terminated by the Court. The Court also ordered the parties to the lawsuit to file a joint status report on or before June 30, 2016....

...Maui Health System will manage operations at each of the hospitals effective July 1, 2016....

... will Hawaii be next? ....

At 18.5%, Hawaii has the lowest adult obesity rate in the U.S., closely followed by Colorado at 19.8%....

...Study Examining Senior Care Cost and Quality Reveals Best and Worst States to Age in....

...The rule goes into effect August 8, 2016....

“Medicaid fraud takes tax dollars from patients who need coverage and gives it to criminals."

Dr. Phil Eskew, founder of DPC Frontier, says the bill’s language requesting the insurance division of DCCA to conduct a survey suggests Hawaii lawmakers don’t understand what DPC is....

... serious and sometimes fatal infections ... high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women ....

"...this measure unreasonably intrudes upon a system of federal law in violation of the Supremacy Clause...."

House Democrats are here to cut off your ....

When it comes to hiring a home health aide, where you live matters....

"As Zika continues to spread rapidly overseas, we must take precautionary measures to prevent any locally acquired cases from taking hold in our state.”

... people who promote sexual reassignment surgery “are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder” ....

...requesting a waiver of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act that compromise the state’s existing Prepaid Health Care Act...

...Until recently, hospital labor on Maui was given exclusively to a public labor union. As a result, 70% of the budget was spent on employees....

...When Zika makes it to Hawaii and destroys the tourism industry, remember the environmentalists and organic pseudo-farmers who refused to allow spraying....

Field trials in Brazil are using a genetically modified form of the A. aegypti mosquito....

A federal judge refused the unions' request for an emergency stay in February, leading to Wednesday showdown in the Ninth Circuit....

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit lobbied hard Wednesday for Hawaii to pause its plan to privatize money-pit hospitals on Maui and Lanai....

...dozens of Hawaii County organic farmers are refusing access to State and County mosquito-eradication workers....

"...if we wait until the public is panicking because they're seeing babies born with birth defects, we will have waited too long...."

Public-Private partnerships will provide medically frail homeless discharged from The Queen’s Medical Center with a safety net for short-term homecare and housing support....

...some project that vapor products will surpass traditional cigarettes in consumption over the next decade....

The American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex....

"It's not a question of if, it's a question of when Zika comes here to this island, and we have a very unique opportunity right now to squash it."

...Oahu ranks best followed by Kauai, Maui and Hawaii Counties....

... In Hawaii 42.4% of people ages 18-64 with disabilities are employed, 8th highest in USA ....

A post showing vegetarians and veggies tend to have significantly more mental disorders and health issues than meat-loving people has gone viral....

The legislation would enable terminally ill patients to access to medications and treatments not yet given final approval for use by the FDA....

...the Hawaii Senate Judiciary Committee, will give decision on  SB2956  Tuesday March 1....

... legislation that would enable medicine and medical device manufacturers to offer eligible terminally ill patients “investigational drugs” and “experimental treatments” ....

...Hawai‘i will focus on expanding Medicaid involvement in and support for the state’s housing and homelessness initiatives....

...Grassroot Institute Testifies in Support of CON Law Reform....

To date, recovery of the billions in wasted state exchange funds has been near non-existent, despite failed exchanges in Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico, and Nevada costing taxpayers $733 million....

...Watchdog group expresses hope that there will be no more roadblocks to better patient care....

...allow manufacturers of “investigational” drugs and treatments to make such treatments available to eligible terminally ill patients....

Dr. Sarah Park is the Hawaii State Epidemiologist and Chief of the Disease Outbreak Control Division, Hawaii Department of Health....

A federal judge rejected United Public Workers' emergency request to stay a law that privatizes three Hawaii hospitals and strips some 500 workers of civil-service protections....

...Prohibits therapists from counteracting the effort of a child molester to turn your son gay....

...while GM methods face challenges when applied in a continent as large as Africa, there is no such issue on an island isolated in middle of the Pacific Ocean....

The emergency proclamation will give the state access to the Major Disaster Fund, the option of waiving certain laws and regulations to expedite the outbreak response....

U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor refused to block the privatization after discussion on Feb. 9....

Tulsi Gabbard challenges Ige from floor of US House ....

...meanwhile Obama is seeking $1.8B in Zika funding....

This is just the latest example of the Department of Education attempting to shortchange Hawaii’s special needs students....

...in Honolulu, health records indicated that more than a third of outpatients were not evaluated at least four times in the 30 days after being flagged as high risk for suicide, as required by facility policy....

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