Health Care

Hawaii Is Allowing Registered Sex Offender To Keep Treating Patients Hawaii Attorney General/2024

Hawaii Is Allowing Registered Sex Offender To Keep Treating Patients

California revoked Edward Hsu’s physical therapy license based on a Hawaii conviction. In Hawaii, both his physical therapy and acupuncture licenses remain in good standing.

Hawaii’s State Psychiatric Hospital Has Leaks, Causing Mold To Grow David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024

Hawaii’s State Psychiatric Hospital Has Leaks, Causing Mold To Grow

A new building was completed in 2021, but staff say rain has been seeping in ever since it opened.

Honolulu Morgue Aims To Start Giving Families Answers Faster With New Deputy David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024

Honolulu Morgue Aims To Start Giving Families Answers Faster With New Deputy

The city has a deputy medical examiner for the first time in five years.

Hawaii Nurses Union Calls New Contract A Step In The Right Direction David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024

Hawaii Nurses Union Calls New Contract A Step In The Right Direction

Like other health care workforces around the country, better staffing ratios were the main concern.

State Funding Of Waianae Emergency Room Lags Far Behind Peers Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

State Funding Of Waianae Emergency Room Lags Far Behind Peers

Health center officials want to expand mental health programs, but ER expenses are eating into the budget.

Hawaii Governor Urges Federal Mediation To Settle Nurse Labor Dispute Ashley Young via AP/2024

Hawaii Governor Urges Federal Mediation To Settle Nurse Labor Dispute

The hospital said it would agree to bring in federal mediators if the nurses’ union does too.

Nurse Labor Dispute At Hawaii Hospital Escalates With 10 Arrests Screenshot/Hawaii News Now

Nurse Labor Dispute At Hawaii Hospital Escalates With 10 Arrests

More than 600 nurses have been locked out since they went on a one-day strike earlier this month.

Honolulu EMS Sued For Wrongful Death Over Kailua Ambulance Fire Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

Honolulu EMS Sued For Wrongful Death Over Kailua Ambulance Fire

Family of the 91-year-old patient who died in 2022 after the ambulance in which he was riding burst into flames accused Honolulu EMS of wrongful death and negligence.

There Are So Few Doctors In Maui County That Even Medical Workers Struggle To Get Care Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021

There Are So Few Doctors In Maui County That Even Medical Workers Struggle To Get Care

More than two-thirds of Maui County residents experienced delays accessing health care last year, according to a new report.

Therapy On The Beach: Program Targets Youth Mental Health Crisis On Maui With Mobile Counseling Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

Therapy On The Beach: Program Targets Youth Mental Health Crisis On Maui With Mobile Counseling

Access, transportation and survivor’s guilt all play into the problem of providing kids with the mental health support they need.