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Local officials have urged residents to get a COVID booster shot, but the state says fewer than half the people eligible have gotten one. States like Vermont have administered booster doses to more than half of their populations. HPR’s Zoe Dym talks with health care workers from Hawaiʻi and Vermont to see how the state can catch up.
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Growth is still happening in West Oʻahu, according to industry leaders in housing, retail and health care. But there have definitely been challenges. Pacific Business News editor A. Kam Napier has more.
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A project to expand the Straub Medical Center in Honolulu is underway — in honor of the hospital’s 100th anniversary. The new city-block campus will be nearly triple the existing size at 760,000 square feet.
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The Sex Abuse Treatment Center at the Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women & Children has received a $100,000 gift from UHA Health Insurance. The money will be used to expand technological outreach services.
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A staffing shortage existed in Hawaiʻi’s health care industry before Covid, and it will still be there after the pandemic passes. Pacific Business News editor in chief A. Kam Napier has more on what health care leaders are saying about it.
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Straub Medical Center in Honolulu and Queen’s Medical Center West Oʻahu presented Thursday their 15-year master plans in front of the Committee on Zoning and Planning.
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Hawaiʻi Pacific Health announced it will be closing the Pier 2 location in Honolulu and focus its vaccination efforts elsewhere starting Monday.
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HONOLULU — Lavinia “Lavi” Mounga had no idea a baby was coming when she went into labor on a flight from her home in Utah to Honolulu last week.“I just…
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Some Hawaii hospitals are getting hit harder than others with the surge in COVID-19 cases. But the Healthcare Association of Hawaii that represents…
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Lawmakers advanced a bill today to enable neighbor island hospitals to transition into public-private partnerships. As HPR’s Wayne Yoshioka reports, if…