STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2067

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2182
                                        




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. 2182 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WAIANAE
     COAST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an appropriation for
emergency services at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health
Center (WCCHC)

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Health, WCCHC, Office of Hawaiian Affairs,
and a private individual.

     Your Committee finds that the WCCHC, a nonprofit community
health center, provides critical and necessary emergency medical
services to the Waianae, Nanakuli, and Maile areas.  The next
nearest emergency facility is St. Francis-West in Waipahu.

     WCCHC has received appropriations for emergency medical
services since 1976.  Your Committee further finds that the WCCHC
emergency room would probably close without state funding.

     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. 2182 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 
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                                   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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