Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1482 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for a grant-in-aid to Saint Francis Healthcare System of Hawaii (SFHSH), for the Maui Renal Dialysis Center.

Testimony supporting this measure was received from the Department of Health, SFHSH, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that SFHSH has been serving Hawaii residents and visitors requiring dialysis treatments since 1965. Their services for Maui began in 1975 and has grown from a small three-station unit to a twenty-station facility today. Demand for services has increased over the years and SFHSH is planning construction of a new replacement facility with thirty patient stations that has the potential for expansion to forty-eight stations in the future. Your Committee finds the SFHSH provides a valuable medical service and the grant-in-aid provided by this measure will help expand its services to meet the growing needs of the public.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1482 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.