STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1686

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.C.R. No. 109

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 109 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO ASSIST IN THE REESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH UNIT, KNOWN AS THE MOLOKINI UNIT, AT MAUI MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER, IN ORDER TO PROMOTE A LOCAL SYSTEM OF CARE ON THE ISLAND OF MAUI BASED ON THE HAWAII CHILD AND ADOLESCENT SYSTEM PROGRAM PRINCIPLES AND CONSISTENT WITH THE MANDATES OF THE 1997 FELIX CONSENT DECREE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to urge the Department of Health to assist the Maui Memorial Medical Center in reopening the Molokini unit by compensating private child and adolescent psychiatrists who take calls at Maui Memorial Medical Center to enhance the recruitment and retention of a child and adolescent psychiatrist hospitalist.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 109 and recommends its adoption.

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

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair