STAND. COM. REP. 2373

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2471

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 2471 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR LAMALAMA KA `ILI AT MOLOKAI GENERAL HOSPITAL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for Lamalama Ka `Ili at Molokai General Hospital.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, five members of the Maui County Council, Hospice Hawaii, and Molokai General Hospital. Testimony in opposition was received from the Department of Health.

Your Committee finds that Lamalama Ka `Ili at Molokai General Hospital provides diabetes self-management education program and hospice services to the people of Molokai. Since the hospice program's inception, forty-five patients and families have been served, when normally these patients were either cared for by the public health system, or were transported to Oahu for treatment and died away from their homes. The Committee further finds that moneys spent on supporting this clinic are also an investment in preventative care.

Your Committee has amended this measure by reducing the appropriation from $150,000 to $130,000.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2471, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2471, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair