STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2077

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3022
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred S.B. No. 3022 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO SERVICE
     MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AND AT-RISK POPULATIONS IN KONA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation to
provide services to the medically underserved and at-risk
populations in Kona.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Health, The Salvation Army, Bay Clinic,
Inc., and a private individual.

     Research by the Salvation Army indicates that a significant
number of Kona residents have inadequate access to health care.
The Kona Corps of the Salvation Army proposes to establish a
primary health care clinic in Kona.  This project is a
significant expansion of the Salvation Army's existing health
clinic which is operated by volunteer medical practitioners.  The
expanded health center, with a full-time practitioner and other
staff working in conjunction with volunteer providers, will be
able to provide 4,300 patient visits per year compared to only
about 400 patient visits in the current volunteer clinic.

     Although the Salvation Army has obtained funding for the
building, an endowment, and salary and expenses from other

 
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sources, it requires additional support to sustain the clinic's
operation.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 3022 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Health and Human
                                   Services,



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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