OFFICE OF HEALTH CARE ASSURANCE ISSUES $2,190,000 PENALTY AGAINST HAWAIʻI ISLAND CARE CENTERS
OFFICE OF HEALTH CARE ASSURANCE ISSUES $2,190,000 PENALTY AGAINST HAWAIʻI ISLAND CARE CENTERS Posted on Jun 12, 2025 in Newsroom HILO, Hawai’i – The Hawai’i Department of Health (DOH) Office of Health Care Assurance (OHCA) has issued an Order to Cease and Desist Clinical Laboratory Operations against Hilo Urgent Care Center, LLC and Hilo Urgent […]
Hawaii Pacific Health Nurses Featured in Special Newspaper Sections Across the State
Newspapers statewide – including the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, The Garden Island, West Hawaii Today and Hawaii Tribune-Herald – honored the impact nurses make on patients and their community every day with commemorative inserts published in advance of National Nurses Week. Featured throughout these special inserts are nurses from across the Hawaii Pacific Health system, who speak […]
I Was Given 6 Months To Live. I Made 1 Unexpected Decision That Helped Me Beat The Odds.
The author at Antelope Island in Utah, near the Great Salt Lake, in summer 2022. Courtesy of Jillian Meyer Photo On October 1, 2021, after having what I had thought was routine thyroid surgery, I was diagnosed with anaplastic thyroid cancer, a cancer so rare that none of my doctors had ever seen it before. […]
I Was On The Verge Of Calling Off My Wedding But Didn’t Know Why. Now I Finally Understand.
“Vacations are meant to be relaxing,” I grumbled to myself, sitting on the pebbled shore of Lopez Island, a few hours outside of Seattle. My husband, Ryan, was helping our two young children construct a driftwood fort just down the beach. This man, who supposedly loved me, had booked us a vacation rental without television […]
New survey method proves Rhode Island’s rarest frog may not be so rare
The rarest frog in Rhode Island may not be as rare as scientists once thought after a study by University of Rhode Island researchers using a seldom-used methodology turned up many more of the endangered animals than they expected. Eastern spadefoots — often called spadefoot toads, though they are actually frogs — have long been […]
Clearing the Hurdles to Safe Injection Facilities
Rhode Island authorized the first ever safe injection facilities (SIFs) or “harm reduction centers” in the U.S. last week, but many states still face an uphill battle to opening their own sites. The bill calls for launching a two-year pilot program which would permit harm reduction centers or SIFs to serve as a community resource, […]
Milestone for Safe Injection; Plasma Exchange for VITT; Cruises Beat Back CDC Rules
Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Rhode Island is the first state to make safe injection sites legal in an effort to prevent opioid overdoses. (Providence Journal) The global death toll from COVID-19 surpassed the 4 million mark on Wednesday. (USA Today) As of about 8 a.m. ET, the estimated COVID-19 toll […]