Thursday, March 28, 2024
Hawai'i Free Press

Current Articles | Archives

Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Hawaii's Doctor Shortage
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:39 AM :: 1899 Views :: Health Care

from Grassroot Instiitute, September 8, 2022 

HONOLULU, Sept. 8, 2022 >> Hawaii has a severe doctor shortage. Find out how bad it is and what we can do about it at events later this month on Maui, Oahu and Hawaii island sponsored by the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii.

The special guests will be:

>> Dr. Scott Grosskreutz, a diagnostic radiology specialist and founder of the Hawaii Physician Shortage Crisis Task Force.

>> Lisa Rantz, executive director of the Hilo Medical Center Foundation and president of the Hawaii State Rural Health Association.

>> Dr. Elizabeth Ignacio, an interventional radiologist who practices throughout the state.

The three will talk about why doctors, nurses and other medical professionals have found Hawaii to be a difficult place to practice, and why they have been leaving the islands in droves in past years or not coming to Hawaii to begin with.

Will 2023 be the year our political leaders step up to the plate and do something about it? 

More important, what could they do to help revive Hawaii’s ailing healthcare system? Reduce taxes? Allow state licensure reciprocity or recognition? Appeal to the federal government to adjust Medicare payments? Repeal Hawaii’s protectionist certificate-of-need laws? Authorize expanded telehealth services? Make housing more affordable so health professionals can afford to live here? Any or all of the above? Or what else?

Grosskreutz, Rantz and Ignacio will all appear at the first event on Maui, on Tuesday, Sept. 27, at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; $10 admission includes lunch and parking.

Grosskreutz and Rantz will lead the remaining two events:

>> On Oahu, Wednesday, Sept. 28, at a private club in Honolulu, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; $30 admission includes lunch and parking.

>> On Hawaii island, Thursday, Sept. 29, at The Arc of Hilo, 1099 Waianuenue Ave., from 5:30 to 7 p.m.; $10 admission includes dinner and parking. 

To register for the event on Maui, go here; on Oahu, here; and on Hawaii island, here.

For more information, please contact Melissa Rabideau at 808-762-6897 or info@GrassrootInstitute.org.

To register for the Maui event, go here;

for the Oahu event, here;

for the Hawaii island event, here.

For more information about any or all of these upcoming events, please email info@grassrootinstitute.org or call 808-864-1776.  

---30---

MN: Doctor shortage focus of Sept. 27 event

Links

TEXT "follow HawaiiFreePress" to 40404

Register to Vote

2aHawaii

808 Silent Majority

Aloha Pregnancy Care Center

AntiPlanner

Antonio Gramsci Reading List

A Place for Women in Waipio

Ballotpedia Hawaii

Broken Trust

Build More Hawaiian Homes Working Group

Christian Homeschoolers of Hawaii

Cliff Slater's Second Opinion

DVids Hawaii

FIRE

Fix Oahu!

Frontline: The Fixers

Genetic Literacy Project

Grassroot Institute

Habele.org

Hawaii Aquarium Fish Report

Hawaii Aviation Preservation Society

Hawaii Catholic TV

Hawaii Christian Coalition

Hawaii Cigar Association

Hawaii ConCon Info

Hawaii Debt Clock

Hawaii Defense Foundation

Hawaii Family Forum

Hawaii Farmers and Ranchers United

Hawaii Farmer's Daughter

Hawaii Federalist Society

Hawaii Federation of Republican Women

Hawaii History Blog

Hawaii Homeschool Association

Hawaii Jihadi Trial

Hawaii Legal News

Hawaii Legal Short-Term Rental Alliance

Hawaii Matters

Hawaii's Partnership for Appropriate & Compassionate Care

Hawaii Public Charter School Network

Hawaii Rifle Association

Hawaii Shippers Council

Hawaii Smokers Alliance

Hawaii State Data Lab

Hawaii Together

HIEC.Coop

HiFiCo

Hiram Fong Papers

Homeschool Legal Defense Hawaii

Honolulu Moms for Liberty

Honolulu Navy League

Honolulu Traffic

House Minority Blog

Imua TMT

Inouye-Kwock, NYT 1992

Inside the Nature Conservancy

Inverse Condemnation

Investigative Project on Terrorism

July 4 in Hawaii

Kakaako Cares

Keep Hawaii's Heroes

Land and Power in Hawaii

Legislative Committee Analysis Tool

Lessons in Firearm Education

Lingle Years

Managed Care Matters -- Hawaii

Malama Pregnancy Center of Maui

MentalIllnessPolicy.org

Military Home Educators' Network Oahu

Missile Defense Advocacy

MIS Veterans Hawaii

NAMI Hawaii

Natatorium.org

National Christian Foundation Hawaii

National Parents Org Hawaii

NFIB Hawaii News

No GMO Means No Aloha

Not Dead Yet, Hawaii

NRA-ILA Hawaii

Oahu Alternative Transport

Obookiah

OHA Lies

Opt Out Today

OurFutureHawaii.com

Patients Rights Council Hawaii

PEACE Hawaii

People vs Machine

Practical Policy Institute of Hawaii

Pritchett Cartoons

Pro-GMO Hawaii

P.U.E.O.

RailRipoff.com

Rental by Owner Awareness Assn

ReRoute the Rail

Research Institute for Hawaii USA

Rick Hamada Show

RJ Rummel

Robotics Organizing Committee

School Choice in Hawaii

SenatorFong.com

Sink the Jones Act

Statehood for Guam

Talking Tax

Tax Foundation of Hawaii

The Real Hanabusa

Time Out Honolulu

Trustee Akina KWO Columns

UCC Truths

US Tax Foundation Hawaii Info

VAREP Honolulu

Waagey.org

West Maui Taxpayers Association

What Natalie Thinks

Whole Life Hawaii

Yes2TMT