1. According to a July 31 Pacific Business News story on a recent Wallethub survey, Hawaii is tied with four states for having the worst median ACT college admissions test in the nation. Three of the states are North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama. What’s the fourth state? A. Georgia B. Missouri C. Mississippi D. […]
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This Monday, Nov. 10: State Officials To Hold Hearing On Maui Hospital Financial Troubles
It’s no secret that Maui Memorial Medical Center is in serious financial trouble. The hospital–the only facility on the island that handles acute care–routinely runs annual deficits ($39 million last year, according to this Maui News story). Hospital officials have talked about starting public-private partnerships, but politically powerful public employee unions tend to get squeamish about such […]
Mother Nature Meets The Federal Government: Exploring how the Affordable Care Act affects Naturopathic Doctors
Most people probably don’t realize that the federal Affordable Healthcare Act (HR3590) includes provisions preventing discrimination of alternative medicine. This could have a big affect on the Naturopathic Doctors (NDs) on Maui. “That will be the largest single event to impact our profession in years,” says Lorilee Schoenbeck–a board member of the American Association of […]
Prescription Drug Take Back Day Coming Soon
The fifth annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day will happen Saturday, Sept. 29, but Kaiser Permanente has already beat the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to the punch. They’ve collected more than 100 pounds of prescription drugs on Maui, Hawaii Island and Oahu at their clinics this past spring. This was the first time Kaiser […]
Kaiser Permanente reports losses–patients, gains
Earlier this week, Pacific Business News reported that Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, “the state’s largest health maintenance organization generated $233.6 million in revenue but spent $235.2 million on operations in the first quarter,” equating to “a a $700,000 loss for the first quarter of 2010”–up $400,000 from last year. I’m afraid to say, this might be mostly […]