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Data Dive: Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders Suffer For Lack Of Health Insurance Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Data Dive: Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders Suffer For Lack Of Health Insurance

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults are more likely to turn to traditional or cultural practices as a substitute for conventional medicine. Their health outcomes remain poor compared to white people.

贬补飞补颈驶颈’s Physician Shortage Hits Maui Hardest Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

贬补飞补颈驶颈’s Physician Shortage Hits Maui Hardest

Doctors were scarce before the Lahaina fire, which burned medical facilities, displaced health care workers and patients and heightened financial stress.

贬补飞补颈驶颈 Braces To Protect Milk Supply As Bird Flu Spreads On The Mainland (Thomas Heaton/Civil Beat/2024)

贬补飞补颈驶颈 Braces To Protect Milk Supply As Bird Flu Spreads On The Mainland

Bird flu has been found in dairy cows in 16 states and in more than 60 humans on the mainland so far this year.

The Long Crusade To Build A West Maui Hospital Hits Another Snag West Maui Hospital Foundation

The Long Crusade To Build A West Maui Hospital Hits Another Snag

The county has backpedaled on an agreement to be the guarantor on bonds authorized by the Legislature.

Data Dive: Hawaii Nursing Home Deficiencies Among Highest In The Nation Getty Images/2024

Data Dive: Hawaii Nursing Home Deficiencies Among Highest In The Nation

The number of average deficiencies in Hawaii nursing homes almost doubled between 2015 and 2023.

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.

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.

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.