HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	1063
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE.

 

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 

     SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that more emergency services are needed in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas on the island of Oahu.  As calls for emergency response services increase, a greater burden is placed on the city and county of Honolulu emergency medical services division to respond to emergency calls in these areas.  This increased workload threatens the ability of the division to provide acceptable levels of emergency medical services.

     Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village are high density areas with a sizable distance between the two nearest hospital units, Kuakini Hospital in Liliha and Pali Momi Hospital in Aiea.  In 2014 alone, these areas experienced 4,418 calls for emergency medical services.  Callers often experience long response times, which increased from 8.46 minutes in 2011 to 9.4 minutes in 2014.

     The purpose of this Act is to appropriate moneys to the department of health to assist the city and county of Honolulu emergency medical services division with expanding emergency medical services and ambulance services in the above communities to operate an additional emergency medical service unit.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $2,374,237.98 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2015-2016 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2016-2017 to assist the city and county of Honolulu emergency medical services division with expanding emergency medical services and ambulance services in the Moanalua,  Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village communities to operate an additional emergency medical service unit.

     The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of health for the purposes of this Act.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2015.

 

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

 

 

Report Title:

Emergency Medical Care; Appropriation

 

Description:

Appropriates moneys to operate an additional emergency medical services unit in the Moanalua, Aliamanu, Red Hill, Salt Lake, and Foster Village areas.

 

 

 

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