PLEASE HELP CANCER PATIENTS IN WEST MAUI Re: Certificate of Need Application #20-17 - Establishment of Radiation Therapy Services CON Review Panel meeting, Hearing #2 of 3 Tri – Isle Subarea Health Planning Council review shall be held via Zoom meeting as follows: Time: Wednesday, Nov 17, 2021 1:00 PM Hawaii Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/91034194568 Meeting ID: 910 3419 4568 Passcode:768368 Dial by your location Dial by your location +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) Meeting ID: 910 3419 4568 Passcode:768368 Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/adfnGOb8u2 At each meeting, you or your representative will be given approximately 10 minutes for a presentation. It is most important to directly address the 12 certificate of need criteria or the 6 categories of the criteria in your presentation. Any person from the public wishing to testify will be given approximately three (3) minutes each and will be requested to focus their comments on the criteria. Certificate of Need applications are reviewed according to the following criteria: relation to the state health services and facilities plan, need and accessibility, quality, cost and finances, relation to the existing health care system, and availability of resources. A copy of the criteria sheet is enclosed for your convenience. We are in the process of obtaining quorums for the Statewide Health Coordinating Council and the Review Panel meetings and will contact you as soon as we are able to confirm we have quorum for these meetings. (see next sheet for Chart of Criteria) Aloha everyone! This letter was sent today to SHPDA in support of the West Maui Cancer Center. We are urging everyone a support letter similar to this. We have a copy of this letter posted at www.WestMaui.org, as well as a template in word to help get you started! Letters can be sent: ***** BY MAIL***** Mr. Serafin Colmenares, Jr. Administrator Hawaii State Health Planning and Development Agency 1177 Alakea Street, Suite #402 Honolulu, HI 96813 ****** BY FAX***** (808) 587-0783 ****** BY EMAIL***** [email protected] * Mahalo, Joseph Pluta, WMTA President
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Learn how certificate-of-need laws have hurt our medical preparedness Three special guests will explain how Hawaii's '"certificate of need" laws led to Hawaii coming up short when it needed healthcare capacity most HONOLULU, Nov. 1, 2021 >> Find out during a free webinar how Hawaii’s “certificate of need” laws are contributing to Hawaii's healthcare shortage, on Monday, Nov. 15, starting at 10 a.m. Sponsored by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, the one-hour event will feature three special guests: >> Joe Pluta, president of the West Maui Taxpayers Association, who was a vocal supporter of a proposed second hospital on Maui that was denied under the state’s CON laws. >> Naomi Lopez-Bauman, healthcare policy directory for the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute. >> Sal Nuzzo, director of the Florida-based James Madison Institute’s Center for Economic Prosperity. Hawaii’s certificate-of-need laws require healthcare investors to prove to the state that their proposed new medical facilities or services are “needed” before the state will let them be built or offered. Hawaii has the strictest medical CON laws in the nation, covering 28 different medical services. It also has the fewest hospital beds per capita in the nation. Yet since 2006, state officials have rejected over $200 million of private healthcare investments, which would have added more than 200 hospital beds to meet Hawaii’s immediate medical needs. Such regulation led to Hawaii’s healthcare market coming up short when the coronavirus emerged in March 2020. Alleging inadequate healthcare capacity, the governor shut down the entire state to “flatten the curve” and reduce stress on Hawaii’s hospitals. That “emergency” has now lasted 19 months. Perhaps it’s time to reform Hawaii’s CON laws. If you would like to learn more about how CON laws have diminished Hawaii’s healthcare capacity, please join us for this fascinating discussion. Moderator for the event will be Institute President Keli‘i Akina. Questions from the audience will be fielded by Joe Kent, institute executive vice president. Click the button below to register. For more information call 808-864-1776 or email [email protected]. REGISTER FOR WEBINAR HEREHearing #1, Friday, Nov 12, 2:00 PM Aloha everyone! This letter was sent today to SHPDA in support of the West Maui Cancer Center. We are urging everyone a support letter similar to this. We have a copy of this letter posted at www.WestMaui.org, as well as a template in word to help get you started! Letters can be sent: ***** BY MAIL***** Mr. Serafin Colmenares, Jr. Administrator Hawaii State Health Planning and Development Agency 1177 Alakea Street, Suite #402 Honolulu, HI 96813 ****** BY FAX***** (808) 587-0783 ****** BY EMAIL***** [email protected] * Mahalo, Joseph Pluta, WMTA President ![]()
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