REPORT TITLE:
Approp.; Molokai Hospital


DESCRIPTION:
Appropriates $700,000 for operating costs of Molokai General
Hospital.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                        
THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           1616
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                     A BILL FOR AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MOLOKAI GENERAL HOSPITAL.



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  Molokai General Hospital is the only hospital on
 
 2 the island of Molokai, and serves a population of approximately
 
 3 6,700 residents.  The hospital is a thirty bed facility with
 
 4 fourteen acute care and sixteen long term care beds.  It provides
 
 5 twenty-four hour emergency care, urgent care, acute, medical,
 
 6 pediatric inpatient care, low risk midwifery care, radiology
 
 7 services, ultrasound services, laboratory services, respiratory
 
 8 therapy, and physical therapy.
 
 9      Although Molokai General Hospital is not a state hospital,
 
10 it receives a monthly subsidy by the State as a community
 
11 hospital, and also receives aid from the county of Maui and
 
12 federal grants and contracts.  Molokai General Hospital receives
 
13 most of its financial and management support from being a
 
14 subsidiary of Queen's Health Systems.  However, because of the
 
15 Queen's Health Systems' recent decrease in revenues and their
 
16 decision to downsize, Molokai General Hospital's financial
 
17 support has been severely affected.  Thus, Molokai General
 
18 Hospital must rely on increased financial support from the State,
 
19 the County of Maui, and federal grants.
 

 
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 1      The purpose of this Act is to provide financial support to
 
 2 Molokai General Hospital for its operating costs.
 
 3      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
 4 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $700,000, or so much
 
 5 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000, for the
 
 6 operating costs of Molokai General Hospital.
 
 7      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 8 Hawaii health systems corporation for the purposes of this Act.
 
 9      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
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