Bill Text: HI SR79 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Medical Student Rotations; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-04-01 - (S) Report and Resolution Adopted, as amended (SD 1). [SR79 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SR79-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2937

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.R. No. 79

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.R. No. 79 entitled:

 

"SENATE RESOLUTION URGING HAWAII HEALTH SYSTEMS CORPORATION HOSPITALS AND CLINICS TO ACCEPT MEDICAL STUDENT ROTATIONS FROM A.T. STILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE BASED OUT OF THE WAIANAE COAST COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTER, THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII JOHN A. BURNS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, AND OTHER HAWAII-BASED MEDICAL SCHOOLS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to urge the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to accept medical student rotations from A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine based out of the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, and other Hawaii-based medical schools at its facilities and to work with the Hawaii Primary Care Association to develop a plan to accomplish this objective.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from nine individuals.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that there is a critical health care provider shortage in Hawaii that is particularly acute in rural areas.  Your Committee further finds that doctors often enter practice in the same locality in which they had their residencies and that encouraging teaching through medical student rotations at Hawaii Health Systems Corporation facilities may be one step toward easing the physician shortage.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requesting the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to work with the Hawaii Primary Care Association to develop a plan to place students from the A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine based out of the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, and other Hawaii-based medical schools in Hawaii Health Systems Corporation facilities for medical student rotations.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 79, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.R. No. 79, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair