Healthcare

Maui resident Gabriel Rao talks about Estate Plan Now, the website he founded to help families prepare for what lies after a loved one passes away.

Through a partnership with the Hawaiʻi Island Community Health Center and the Food Basket, the initiative provided 25 patients with weekly food boxes that are completely locally sourced to measure how regular access to healthy, local foods would impact their overall health.

Retired Brigadier General Davil Stilwell discusses Hawaiʻi’s links to the Asia-Pacific region; Mānoa Chocolate founder Dylan Butterbaugh shares how his business has fared with this year’s decline in tourism.

The University of Hawaiʻi’s John A. Burns School of Medicine was ranked first in the nation by the American Association of Medical Colleges for its community engagement.

HPR looks ahead for storm updates on Hurricane Nolo and looks back on some of our past stories highlighting the human body.

Former Honolulu City Councilmember Gary Gill reflects on a year since undergoing organ transplant surgery.

Dr. Holly Scanes, director of the Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Endeavors in Mililani, explains how they serve veterans during Suicide Prevention Month.

Carol Kai Inouye, founder of the Great Aloha Run, passes the torch to developer Christine Camp to keep the race going; Kapolei Middle School faces new challenges in keeping its ʻŌlelo Hawaʻi immersion program alive.

The historic Kula Hospital in Upcountry Maui is still closed since sustaining significant storm damage in March. But as HPR's Catherine Cluett Pactol reports, there is good news for some of its patients.

$45 million will go to the UH John A. Burns School of Medicine, and $13 million will go to the state Department of Health. The funds come from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.