STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2364

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2935

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2935 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE COORDINATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a public-private partnership to research, facilitate, develop, and implement a model and system of collaborative health care delivery in a county with a population between 100,000 and 170,000 that moves patients, including acute care patients, throughout the continuum of care efficiently, appropriately, and cost-effectively.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of the Mayor of Maui County; two members of the Maui County Council; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; Hale Makua Health Services' Board of Directors, C.E.O., and other personnel; United Public Workers, AFSCME Local 646, AFL-CIO; Maui Memorial Medical Center; Ohana Health Plan; and three individuals.

     Your Committee finds that the public-private partnership established by this measure will encourage the appropriate discharge of patients not requiring acute care from acute settings and the placement of those patients into appropriate sub-acute care settings.  These changes will result in more efficient and cost-effective quality post-acute care, serve patients better, and expand inpatient capacity at acute care facilities and allow acute care providers to better serve those who need care in an acute setting.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Requiring Hale Makua Health Services to become a membership corporation, with the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation as its sole member; provided that certain requirements are met; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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. 2935, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2935, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair