Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 136 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request that the Department of Health (DOH), Department of Human Services (DHS), Office of the Public Guardian, and all providers of long-term services to consider transfer trauma before relocating facility residents and take necessary steps to mitigate the possible impact on the health, safety, and welfare of facility residents.

The DHS, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, American Association of Retired Persons, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, and Hawaii Coalition of Care Home Administrators supported this resolution. The DOH supported this resolution and provided comments.

Your Committee finds that transfer trauma for the elderly and physically and mentally impaired when they are first moved to a long-term care facility or moved from one facility to another can cause severe illness or even death. The DOH has also committed to convening a work group as called for in the resolution.

Your Committee has amended this measure to make a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 136, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 136, H.D. 1.