REPORT TITLE:
Appro.; Molokai Gen. Hospital


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates $850,000 for operating costs of Molokai General
Hospital.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MOLOKAI GENERAL HOSPITAL.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Molokai General Hospital is the only hospital on
 
 2 the island of Molokai, and serves a population of more than seven
 
 3 thousand residents.  The hospital is a thirty-bed facility with
 
 4 sixteen acute care and fourteen long-term care beds.  It provides
 
 5 twenty-four hour emergency care, urgent care, acute, medical,
 
 6 pediatric inpatient care, low risk midwifery care, radiology
 
 7 services, ultrasound services, laboratory services, respiratory
 
 8 therapy, and physical therapy.
 
 9      Although Molokai General Hospital was not a state hospital
 
10 and is not part of the Hawaii health systems corporation, it
 
11 receives a monthly subsidy from the State as a community
 
12 hospital, and also receives aid from the county of Maui and
 
13 federal grants and contracts.  Molokai General Hospital receives
 
14 most of its financial and management support from being a
 
15 subsidiary of the Queen's Health Systems.  However, because of
 
16 the Queen's Health Systems' recent decrease in revenues and their
 
17 decision to downsize, Molokai General Hospital's financial
 
18 support has been severely affected.  Thus, Molokai General
 
19 Hospital must rely on increased financial support from the State,
 

 
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 1 the county of Maui, and federal grants.
 
 2      The purpose of this Act is to provide financial support to
 
 3 Molokai General Hospital for its operating costs.
 
 4      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
 5 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $850,000, or so much
 
 6 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000-2001, for the
 
 7 operating costs of Molokai General Hospital.
 
 8      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 9 Hawaii health systems corporation for the purposes of this Act.
 
10      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2000.
 
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