Health Care

Ron Balajadia, immunization branch chief at the Hawaiʻi Department of Health, spoke with HPR’s Maddie Bender about the rise in whooping cough cases across the islands as students return to school this month.

WCCHC serves thousands of low-income households every year, and provides not just health care, but food, job training and other services.

Leadership with the Hawaiʻi Visitors & Convention Bureau discuss efforts to boost Maui's tourism economy; Kumu Paul Neves walks 300 miles across Hawaiʻi Island in support of caretakers

UH JABSOM Dean Dr. Sam Shomaker discussed the school's reaccreditation, the ongoing uncertainty of federal funding cuts, and the search for more medical student housing on neighbor islands.

The journey to get care and get it covered by insurance can look drastically different depending on where you live. John Desfor spoke with HPR’s Laura Dux about his recent report on rural health in Hawaiʻi.

Rural health advocate John Desfur talks about how transportation shapes health care in rural Hawaiʻi; Investigative reporter Guthrie Scrimgeour delves into Mark Zuckerberg's land holdings on Kauaʻi

JABSOM students often go to neighbor islands to get hands-on practice in the specialty they want to pursue. But federal funding cuts to health care facilities in rural areas may take these opportunities away from them.

The Department of Human Services expects an increase in paperwork starting in 2027, when the Medicaid provisions kick in. The changes include increasing eligibility checks from once to twice a year and work requirements for most Medicaid patients.

President Donald Trump’s tax legislation will make a series of changes to Medicaid and Obamacare. One likely result: Some people will lose access to health insurance starting largely in 2027. These changes will impact Hawai‘i’s hospitals and health centers, and some are already starting to prepare. HPR's Ashley Mizuo reports.

The Conversation talks with experts about what federal spending cuts mean for education and health care; Chef Ippy Aiona talks about getting comfortable in front of the camera for his award-winning docuseries "Eating Our Roots"