Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 93, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request that the Department of Health and Hawaii Health Systems Corporation facilitate a stakeholder group to develop and implement crisis stabilization services at the Maui Memorial Medical Center.

The Department of Health, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Maui Memorial Medical Center, Hawaii Psychological Association, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, and Mental Health Association in Hawaii testified in support of this measure. One concerned individual testified in opposition and provided comments.

Your Committee finds that there is an urgent need to meet the basic psychiatric health needs of children and youth on Maui, and that these children and their families must currently travel to Oahu for these services. The use of crisis stabilization services to meet those needs is an approach that may have both short-term and long-term benefits in terms of the re-establishment of adolescent psychiatric services that have been unavailable since the closing of the Molokini unit of Maui Memorial Medical Center, and the recruitment and retention of qualified adolescent and child psychiatrists for Maui.

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 S.C.R. No. 93, S.D. 2, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.