Bill Text: HI SCR155 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Concurrent Resolution 155 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requesting The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation To Create A Plan For The Kau Hospital To Incorporate Modern Computed Tomography Equipment By July 1, 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-16 - Referred to HTH. [SCR155 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2022-SCR155-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	155
THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2022
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

requesting the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to create a plan for the Ka�Ū Hospital to incorporate modern computed tomography equipment by July 1, 2024.

WHEREAS, Ka�ū Hospital was built by the State in 1971 and is the only hospital in the Ka�ū District in Southern Hawai�i Island, an area approximately the size of Oahu; and

WHEREAS, in 1997 when Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC) was formed, Ka�ū Hospital became one of HHSC's facilities; and

WHEREAS, in 2001, Ka�ū Hospital achieved critical access hospital status, a federal designation given to small rural hospitals that provide essential emergency and acute services in remote areas to assist them with the financial challenges associated with their size and isolation; and

WHEREAS, the district of Ka�ū is considered a medically underserved area; and

WHEREAS, Ka�ū Hospital is the only hospital in the district that provides x-ray services; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Thirty-first Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2022, the House of Representatives concurring, that HHSC is requested to create a plan for the Ka�ū Hospital to incorporate modern computed tomography equipment by July 1, 2024; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the plan to incorporate modern computed tomography equipment is requested to include:

(1) A list of appropriate tomography equipment to be purchased and installed;

(2) The estimated total cost of purchase and installation; and

(3) The estimated timetable for purchase and installation of the equipment; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that HHSC is requested to submit a report of the plan to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2023; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Chair of the Board of Directors of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.