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A Big Island hospital is struggling to retain and recruit nurses. Registered nurses at Queen’s North Hawaiʻi Community Hospital shared their experience with HPR’s Zoe Dym. One nurse said she has seen 12 nurses leave her department in the past three years.
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Hospital executives on Oʻahu are expecting more COVID patients in the next two to three weeks due to the omicron surge. The City and County of Honolulu says it will not make any changes to its response.
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Officials at Queen’s Health Systems have declared an internal state of emergency for its flagship hospital on Punchbowl Street in Honolulu due to rising numbers of patients and staffing shortages.
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The Queen’s Medical Center West Oʻahu is under an internal state of emergency. The health system said the hospital is not shut down, and residents should still go there in case of an emergency.
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With COVID-19 new case counts exceeding 1,000 on Oʻahu, two of The Queen's Medical Center’s biggest hospitals are reinstating a no visitor policy. The policy will be in effect for an indefinite amount of time until case counts decrease.
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Six staff and a patient at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu may have been infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
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The union representing nurses at The Queen's Medical Center is calling on management to better protect their workers from violence directed at them by patients and visitors.
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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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A mass COVID-19 vaccination clinic is set to open Wednesday at The Queen's Medical Center - West O'ahu, the healthcare system announced. "The clinic at…
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The Queen’s Health Systems got a new president and CEO in October. Jill Hoggard Green took up her position shortly before the unprecedented challenges of…