Bill Text: HI HR79 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Resolution 79 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requesting The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Oahu Regional Board To Assess The Availability Of Long-term Care Beds On Oahu And To Develop Recommendations Regarding The Closure Of Leahi Hospital And Maluhia Long-term Care Health Center.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-04-04 - Resolution adopted in final form. [HR79 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2018-HR79-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.R. NO.	79
TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018
STATE OF HAWAII

HOUSE RESOLUTION

Requesting THE Hawaii health systems Corporation Oahu regional board to assess the availability of long-term CARE beds on oahu and to develop RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING the closure of Leahi Hospital and Maluhia Long-Term Care Health Center.

WHEREAS, Leahi Hospital and Maluhia Long-Term Care Health Center are two state-run long-term care facilities within the Oahu region of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; and

WHEREAS, for the 2016-2017 fiscal year, Leahi Hospital had an operating loss of $9,073,968 and Maluhia Long-Term Care Health Center had an operating loss of $7,387,367; and

WHEREAS, in recent years, Leahi Hospital and Maluhia Long-Term Care Health Center have been forced to reduce staff positions and temporarily halt new admissions to address operating deficits; and

WHEREAS, in 2016, Leahi Hospital had a long-term care bed capacity of one hundred fifty-five beds and Maluhia Long-Term Care Health Center had a long-term care bed capacity of one hundred fifty-eight beds; and

WHEREAS, in 2016, Oahu had a total capacity of 2,726 long-term care beds; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2018, that the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Oahu Regional Board is requested to assess the availability of long-term care beds in the City and County of Honolulu and to develop recommendations regarding the closure of Leahi Hospital, Maluhia Long-Term Care Health Center, or both; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Oahu Regional Board is requested to submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2019; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Director of Health, Chief Executive Officer of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, and Chief Executive Officer of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation Oahu Region.