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Adult care home inspection reports will be online by mid-March, officials tell Hawaii lawmakers.

Three in every four available nursing home beds in the state are in facilities that aren’t good enough.

A newspaper story points at one indicator where Hawaii leads, leaving out other serious issues affecting quality.

Legislative efforts to make public workers pay more or sacrifice benefits face strong union opposition.

Hawaii House committees pass bills to include care home vacancies on state website and let certain facilities accept married couples paying privately.

The perfect poster child was paraded around the Capitol to pressure legislators to change state regulations.

Department of Health is ready to obey the posting law for one of the seven types of state-licensed care homes.

UPDATED. Hawaii Department of Health asks Legislature to retroactively change the deadline for posting the reports, which was supposed to begin Jan. 1.

Hawaii’s program remains far from implementation despite an 18-month lead time to meet the Jan. 1 deadline to make inspection reports available online.

But Hawaii is working to be in the forefront of efforts to address the public health crisis.