Hilo Medical Center cutting staff, canceling improvement plans (safety, moving to)

[whtviper1]

This story should be another warning that moving to Hawaii does have risk for those with medical conditions.

It also should give pause to the many posters that feel they can easily land a healthcare job in Hawaii. Despite shortages of medical care - it continues to have cutbacks.

Hilo Medical Center cutting staff, canceling improvement plans - Hawaii News Now - KGMB and KHNL

"Hilo Medical Center officials say in order to reduce a $9 million shortfall and keep their doors open, they'll have to cut positions and cancel improvement plans. "


"Hospitals are threatened all over the country. We're having to get in and make these changes in order to keep the services going for our communities, and that's what we're committed to -- trying to make sure that these very fragile safety net hospitals in the neighbor islands are kept up and running," explained East Hawai'i Region Chief Executive Office Howard Ainsley.


"Hilo Medical Center is one of 12 facilities under the state's public hospital system, Hawai'i Health Systems Corp., which as a whole is facing a $48 million budget deficit. "

"Have a local partnership, keep all the jobs intact so we would respect our local workers and not cut any services, but make things a little tighter," said Green. "We're such a small state that we can't afford any extra losses and that's why you're seeing what you're seeing today in Hilo."


"Green believes the announcement from Hilo Medical Center is just the beginning. He anticipates similar cutbacks will be revealed at other locations across the state in a matter of weeks."

[dchanmer]

The whole medical system is broken.

[Fredesch]

The state gave the medical system about 70% of what they asked! hard to run anything at 70% funding.