Honolulu Civil Beat | Waianae Health Center Execs Call For Funding Boost @civilbeat | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Folks who call Waianae home are the only ones on Oahu who are more than 30 minutes away from a full-service hospital, as reporter Blaze Lovell told Hawaii News Now Sunrise.
The Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center is critically important to Oahu’s Westside, yet it hasn’t seen a funding boost from the state over the past 16 years. Compare that to other providers where funding levels have increased by by 20% or more.
Waianae Coast Comprehensive has been getting about $1.4 million a year from the state, and executives say they’re stretched thin at a time when they’d like to increase mental health resources following deadly shootings that they’ve called a public health crisis.
But running an emergency room — the only one on the Waianae Coast, at that — doesn’t come cheap.
Read the story: civilbeat.org/2024/10/state-funding-of-waianae-emergency-room-lags
Folks who call Waianae home are the only ones on Oahu who are more than 30 minutes away from a full-service hospital, as reporter Blaze Lovell told Hawaii News Now Sunrise.
The Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center is critically important to Oahu’s Westside, yet it hasn’t seen a funding boost from the state over the past 16 years. Compare that to other providers where funding levels have increased by by 20% or more.
Waianae Coast Comprehensive has been getting about $1.4 million a year from the state, and executives say they’re stretched thin at a time when they’d like to increase mental health resources following deadly shootings that they’ve called a public health crisis.
But running an emergency room — the only one on the Waianae Coast, at that — doesn’t come cheap.
Read the story: civilbeat.org/2024/10/state-funding-of-waianae-emergency-room-lags
