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Ookala, HI · Health
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Letters reveal price, policy changes for 16,000 HMSA Medicare Advantage members
About 16,000 HMSA Medicare Advantage members will need to choose a new plan for 2027 after changes to two of the company’s plans. HMSA’s Complete Plus and Standard Plus plans will no longer be offered after December 31.
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hawaiibusiness.com
Meeting Patients Where They’re At
Meeting people where they are can mean more than providing convenience. It can mean bringing essential services to communities that need them most. In Hawaii, that can be a challenge when it comes to dental care. Dentists tend to be more concentrated on Oahu, where the majority of our state’s population resides, making access to care more difficult for Neighbor Island communities.
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City breaks ground on new EMS facility in Kahuku
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Honolulu Emergency Medical Service held a traditional Hawaiian blessing and groundbreaking ceremony Friday for a new EMS station in Kahuku. The new station will replace an existing 900-square-foot facility along Kamehameha Highway on the North Shore, where EMS has operated out of since 1997. City officials...
Honolulu Civil Beat
Honolulu Spilled 27M Gallons Of Sewage In A New System Failure
Two and a half weeks after Tropical Storm Lala dumped more than a trillion gallons of rain on the islands, Honolulu issued a press release with another startling number: A sewage spill during the storm had leaked roughly 26 million gallons of bacteria-laden effluent mixed with stormwater into Honolulu Harbor.
Honolulu Civil Beat
Oʻahu’s Shade Trees Could Take Decades To Grow Back After Storms
Between the Kona lows and two hurricanes, Honolulu has been cleaning up and removing fallen and damaged trees for six months straight — and they’re not done yet. This comes at a time when O‘ahu’s tree canopy has already been declining for years. Between 2014 and 2017, it dropped 5% or an estimated 76,000 trees, forest stewards say. And as temperatures rise, the city needs the services those trees provide more than ever.
Insurance News Net
Hawaii patients express frustration with doctor shortage on Oahu
Keith Daszek was thrilled to learn of a healthcare clinic opening near him. last summer and was pleased it would be right in his neighborhood. But when Daszek, 73, tried to make an appointment, he soon learned the primary- care doctors there were not taking new patients. He had just moved back to.
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Honolulu Audit Faults City's Use of $386M in COVID Relief, Cites Waikiki Vista Gaps
Honolulu spent more than $386 million in federal COVID-19 relief funding, but a new city audit has concluded that a large share of it never delivered the broader community and economic recovery benefits city officials originally promised. The 62-page review, covering March 2020 through November 2024, found that Honolulu significantly changed its original 2021 spending plan for American Rescue Plan Act funds, shifting dollars toward city operations, short-term household assistance, water infrastructure and the purchase of the Waikiki Vista apartment building.
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Honolulu Civil Beat
Covid Audit: Millions Meant To Support Oʻahu Residents Went Elsewhere
Flush with federal pandemic relief money and then faced with a deadline to spend it, Honolulu city officials shifted money away from projects meant to set Oʻahu up for a strong and equitable recovery. Instead of funding sustained economic relief for residents, a large chunk of the funding went...
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DOH conditionally approves Navy Aiea Halawa Shaft reactivation
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Hawaii Department of Health has conditionally approved the reactivation of a Navy water source serving Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The Navy’s Aiea Halawa Shaft would supplement the existing Waiawa Shaft, which currently serves as the primary source for a system used by nearly 93,000 people.
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Honolulu EMS adds 5 new ambulances to modernize fleet, replace storm-damaged unit
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu Emergency Medical Services (EMS) added five remounted units to its fleet this week, including a replacement for an ambulance lost during Kona low flooding. The city said the ambulance stationed in Waialua that was lost was responding to a family trapped in a flooded home on...
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$58M in federal funding boosts rural health training across Hawaiʻi
Hawaiʻi is receiving $58 million through the Rural Health Transformation Program under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Most of the grant, about $45 million, will go to the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine for its Hawaiʻi Outreach for Medical Education in Rural Under-resourced Neighborhoods, or HOME RUN initiative.