STAND. COM. REP. NO. 141

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 30

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 30 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HALE MAKUA-WAILUKU FACILITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of general obligation bonds and appropriate funds as grant-in-aid to Hale Makua to make renovations and improvements to the Wailuku facility.

Two members of the Maui County Council, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, two members of the Hale Makua board, and nine individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that Hale Makua, which means home of respected elders, is a nonprofit corporation that was formed in 1946 to provide a nursing home for elders in need. The unique, pleasant, intermediate care Wailuku facility was constructed in 1966 and now requires substantial renovation to comply with standards established by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Your Committee notes that the project is to renovate patient bathrooms to comply with state and federal laws, retile the bathrooms, replace the curtains that presently exist over bathroom doorways with sliding doors, repaint the rooms, replace the original furniture pieces that are over thirty-five years old, retile the patient room floors, and renovate the Lanai Unit Nurses station to allow for more charting space and an air-conditioned room to keep medication at the required temperature.

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. 30 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,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair