Legislature Approves $7.3M for Kauai Public Hospitals

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The Hawaii state Senate passed House Bill 3 to provide emergency funding to the Kauai Regional Health Care System of the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

HB 3 appropriates $7.3 million for fiscal year 2013-2014. The emergency funding will ensure that Kauai’s two critical access hospitals, West Kauai Medical Center and Samuel Mahelona Memorial Hospital, Kauai’s “only inpatient psychiatric unit, long-term care operations and three physician clinics, will remain operational through the spring of 2014,” according to a press release. 

The measure goes to Gov. Neil Abercrombie for his expected approval.

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Photo: Kauai. (Doug Brown 37)

—Chad Blair

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